Revue de presse - Club DEMETER

Programs supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in over 30 African countries have helped produce some $12 billion worth of food, and the bank’s $25 billion objective is "well on track," AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said on Friday.

Latest research shows around 735 million people currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019 

Below-normal rainfall is expected over the next three months in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.

In an exclusive poll in five countries across the Middle East and North Africa, 68% majority of the population worried about their ability to access food.

Vulnerable caught in ‘paradox’ as pandemic, war and climate change drive increase in food insecurity, all while commodities revenues rise

To feed Africa's growing population, agricultural-food systems need to be modernized. In a new study, researchers analyzed how continental free trade and agricultural development could ensure sustainable food security for Africa.

Eighty percent of the country is under water stress, and more than 60 percent of the available water is polluted.

This is what happens when you starve. With no food, the body's metabolism slows down to preserve energy for vital organs. Hungry and weak, people often become fatigued, irritable and confused.

Urgent international action is needed to avert a mass famine in Yemen on a never-before seen scale due to the Ukraine war, according to the country's largest wheat importer, the HSA Group, who wrote to leaders ahead of a UN summit this week. 

Falling earnings dented by inflation which has been exacerbated by the war is hurting household diets.

An additional 11 million people could be pushed to hunger just over the next three months West Africa is hit by its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people going hungry.

As Brazilian experience shows, anti-hunger policies can be easily reversed unless they address structural inequality.

Rare interviews with ordinary people inside the secretive state reveal chronic food shortages and starvation.

Increasing fertiliser costs may put 100 million people at risk of malnutrition, according to a study published in the Journal Nature Food.

Peru has become the most food-insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

The United Nations says “famine is at the door” in Somalia with “concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region. This falls just short of a formal famine declaration as thousands are dying in a historic drought made worse by the effects of the war in Ukraine.

La malnutrition concerne quelque 278 millions de personnes en Afrique. 

Ukraine and Russia supply key goods to the world economy: food products such as wheat, corn, and seed oils, and energy products and fertilisers for agriculture. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated existing inflationary pressures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region related to drought, conflict, and other issues.

Three million Kenyans face hunger, yet by 2030 it is thought 1.4 million of the country’s children will be obese. Meet the professionals tackling the problem

Unhelpful short-term fixes are not the answer to spiking food prices 

Oxfam says Gazans will be the first to experience hunger related to shortages and price hikes due to Russia’s unprovoked attack.

Parmi les objectifs du millénaire de l'ONU, celui d'éliminer la faim en 2030 semblait le plus facile à atteindre. Mais, depuis 2014, le retour des conflits a inversé la courbe. Et en raison de la pandémie de Covid, 135 millions de personnes supplémentaires seront touchées par la famine.