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Governments should give single day's military spending to fight hunger

News / 21st April 2021

Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger. Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk.

Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP

News / 26th March 2021

Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report on hunger hotspots.  

Yemen: Famine around the corner, says World Food Programme

News / 15th March 2021

People in Yemen face famine unless the world takes immediate action, the World Food Programme has warned at a high-level fundraising conference. 

Covid-19 and fragile states: Deaths underreported, health services overwhelmed and famine looming

Report / 5th March 2021

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing people in fragile states towards catastrophe, with hunger levels rising dramatically and famine looming in several countries, an in-depth report by the Disasters Emergency Committee’s coalition of leading UK aid agencies. 

Hunger deaths aren’t simply about famine or no famine

Blog / 9th February 2021

Focus on loss of life – and urgently trying to prevent it – rather than whether a famine has been declared, writes Daniel Maxwell et al for The New Humanitarian.