Insights and Stories on Food Security

Black Sea grain export deal extended

Nov. 17, 2022 at 6:26 pm CST

Reuters — A deal aimed at easing global food shortages by helping Ukraine export its agricultural products from Black Sea ports was extended for four months on Thursday, though Russia said its own demands were yet to be fully addressed. The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected transit […]

U.N.’s Black Sea grain deal continues without Russia

Oct. 31, 2022 at 9:04 am CDT

By Nigel Hunt

Haiti gang blockade causing catastrophic hunger, U.N. says

Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:16 pm CDT

By Brian Ellsworth

B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

Sep. 26, 2022 at 3:22 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Nearly a million people face starvation in hunger hotspots, U.N. agencies report

Sep. 21, 2022 at 2:47 pm CDT

By Maytaal Angel

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

By Mubasher Bukhari

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

Aug. 24, 2022 at 6:34 pm CDT

Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, […]

By Amina Ismail Charlotte Bruneau

Canada seeks to boost foreign aid for food security

Aug. 12, 2022 at 1:08 am CDT

Amman | Reuters — An international food crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine war has spurred Canada to boost an over $6 billion annual foreign aid budget to help the most hard-hit countries in Africa and the Middle East, Canada’s aid minister said on Thursday. “The Ukraine crisis is creating shock […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Cold and hungry: Food inflation bites Canada’s North

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:30 pm CDT

Iqaluit | Reuters –– In Canada’s remote North, residents have long paid dearly for food, and rising prices have worsened an already dire situation, exposing the vulnerability of one of the world’s biggest exporters of grains and meat. Communities in Nunavut — the largest of the three territories that make […]

By Rod Nickel

Ukraine, Russia sign deal to reopen grain export ports

Jul. 22, 2022 at 4:31 pm CDT

Istanbul/Kyiv | Reuters — Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion can be eased. The accord crowned two months of talks brokered by the United Nations and […]

By Ece Toksabay Ezgi Erkoyun Max Hunder