Food Shortage

Food Shortage

Humanitarian groups are struggling, with violent protests breaking out last month due to reduced rations following massive cuts to aid from the United States and other donors. Photo: BSS/AFP

More than 6,000 flee Kenya refugee camp as aid shortages worsen: UN

The major shift began in July as the WFP began reducing rations, categorising refugees under a four-tier scale and limiting assistance to the two worst-off groups

Palestinians gather as they receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 29, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Severe shortages leave Gaza City residents without water, bread, or basic necessities

Rohingya refugee children look on from their shelter at a refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 28 September 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

'We are simply going to starve': UN chief visits Rohingya refugees amid aid funding shortfall

Photo: UNB

UNICEF appeals for $9.9 bln funding to support children hit by conflict, crisis 

Combines load wheat into trucks in a field during harvest near the village of Solyanoye in the Omsk region, Russia, 8 September 2022. Photo: REUTERS

Emergency grain stockpiling highlights worlds food worries

MV Baro Awlia, the ship that carried food items to Saint Martin’s island. Photo: UNB

Vessel with food arrives at Saint Martin's amid crisis

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the Workers' Party central committee in Pyongyang, North Korea in this photo supplied by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 10, 2021. KCNA via REUTERS

N Korea wants more control over farming amid food shortage

Labourers offload bags of grains as part of relief food that was sent from Ukraine at the World Food Program (WFP) warehouse in Adama town, Ethiopia, September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

IMF board approves new food shock financing window to ease war shortages

Signage is seen outside of the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Fertilizer cargo from Russia heads to US as many worry about food shortages

A looming shadow.Photographer: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images

Famine rides in, plans to stick around awhile

Recent climate events to threaten global food supply

Climate has its last laugh to create food havoc

Photo: TBS

Hungry faces among the floods

Sriracha hot sauce at the Huy Fong Foods Inc. production facility in California. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Shoppers facing shortages of sauce to popcorn