Insights and Stories on Food Shortages

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 […]

Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher, UN refugee chief says

Jun. 16, 2022 at 8:18 pm CDT

By emma-farge

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

May. 24, 2022 at 6:01 pm CDT

By Dan Burns Jessica DiNapoli

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

Mar. 11, 2021 at 3:12 pm CST

By Michelle Nichols

U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

Jun. 10, 2020 at 12:38 pm CDT

By stephanie-nebehay

Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought

Jan. 23, 2020 at 2:23 pm CST

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe has only 100,000 tonnes of grain in its strategic reserves, enough to last just over a month, as the southern African nation suffers the effects of a severe drought, according to the agriculture minister. More than half the country’s population faces food shortages after maize […]

By Reuters

Worst-case no-deal Brexit plan warns of food shortages

Sep. 11, 2019 at 7:07 pm CDT

London | Reuters — The British government’s plans for a no-deal Brexit warn of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes, affecting the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods, and say that protests and counter-protests will take place across the country, accompanied by a possible rise in public disorder. […]

By Reuters

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Jan. 12, 2018 at 12:17 am CST

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, […]

By Anggy Polanco Francisco Aguilar

Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

Aug. 14, 2015 at 8:06 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and U.S. experts warned Friday. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is so great, and the increase in […]

By Kate Kelland