For the lowly ‘farmers and herders fleeing the war between the Yemeni army and Houthi Shia rebels that broke out last month in the country’s mountainous north,’ the noise of heavy artillery, mortar attacks, and aerial bombardment have become familiar sounds. These people have become refugees, temporarily sheltered far away from their villages and in [...]

A de facto AIDS colony in Tuol Sambo, Cambodia is a gross violation of human rights. The country’s government has been urged by more than 100 international organizations and experts to ‘immediately stop sending HIV-affected families there.’ These concerned groups have also asked the Cambodian government for immediate action on improving the living conditions of [...]

They say that hunger is what separates order and anarchy. Social peace is only possible when citizens get their basic needs. Failure to provide food may spark a revolution. Food shortage is largely due not on the failure of the land to produce food but on the fact that the cost of food (cost of [...]

It is widely said that the poor countries are hardest hit by the ill effects of climate change. The question now is: are they even aware of what climate change is all about? Do the supposed victims even know their tragedy?
According to authoritative estimates, ‘99 percent of the casualties linked to climate change occur in [...]

Malnutrition is described as a state of lack of food, characterized by an insufficient food intake to fill the needs for the daily energy expenditure of an individual. This condition leads to nutritional deficiencies. If allowed to be prolonged, this condition causes irreversible damage and, ultimately, death. The term which refers to an inadequate dietary [...]

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has developed an index of economic shock and food entitled ‘Economic Shock and Hunger Index.’ Based on a study of the five countries of Armenia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia, and Nicaragua, the responses of households reveal a rather similar pattern: reduction in the number of meals, option for cheaper [...]

It will eventually be a world of cities. The planet is expected to have 5.3 billion urban residents by 2050, according to forecasts by the UN. That’s 2 billion more than what the planet has today. In developing countries, 5 million new people migrate to cities every month, swelling urban populations. Many are fleeing the [...]

In early 2008, the price of rice increased by 68 percent in most parts of the world. The phenomenon which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has come to call “a silent tsunami,” became the biggest food crisis faced by mankind for decades. At various points, there had been riots over the high [...]

Ubiquitous in the African landscape, sorghum is a grass that is native to Africa and feeds millions of people in the continent. Recently, scientists from Rutgers University have described the genome of the ‘ Sorghum bicolor,’ and say that they have opened up new possibilities by which to exploit the potential of the plant as [...]

The United Nations has poured most of its efforts to stem hunger in rural areas in Africa. Most of its food programs and funds have largely been concentrated in solving hunger in the countrysides of poor nations, especially Africa. An imbalance has been more than imminent because poor countries are impoverished as a whole, whether [...]