Topic: Poverty and hunger
Confronting alarming food insecurity trends in Africa: An expert’s view
Blog / 10th September 2025Food insecurity trends in Africa are alarming, yet current financial flows are insufficient to bridge the significant funding gap and reach all communities in need. An interview with Gilbert Phiri from the IFRC.
Brazil beats hunger
Blog / 30th July 2025Today, Brazil is officially removed from the UN Hunger Map – after lifting over 40 million people out of food insecurity in just two years, the UN confirms.
Slight decrease in global hunger as inequalities widen, UN report reveals
News / 29th July 2025An interagency group from the UN have released the flagship 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, estimating a global, yet uneven, decline in hunger since 2022.
Want to end poverty? Then reduce inequality
Blog / 27th June 2025New World Bank numbers show 125 million more people living in extreme poverty than previously thought, writes Max Lawson for Equals.
Attacks on world order and global aid derailing decades of progress on poverty, warns UN poverty expert
Report / 26th June 2025Unprecedented cuts to global aid and intensifying attacks on multilateralism are undermining decades of progress in the fight against poverty, the UN’s poverty expert warned today.
UN reveals worsening hunger hotspots
News / 18th June 2025A new joint UN report warns that people in five hunger hotspots around the world face extreme hunger and risk of starvation and death in the coming months unless there is urgent humanitarian action and a coordinated international effort to de-escalate conflict, stem displacement, and mount an urgent full-scale aid response.
Weaponising food worsens starvation
Blog / 18th June 2025Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation, write Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nadia Malyanah Azman for IPS News.
Rev. Barber leads Moral Monday march against ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ amid Senate debate
Blog / 3rd June 2025The bill would "rob the poor, starve children, and deny care to the sick in order to line the pockets of the wealthy," writes Julia Conley for Common Dreams.
Gaza: Top UN envoy calls on Israel to end devastating strikes, starvation of civilians
News / 30th May 2025Gaza’s population is being “starved and denied the very basics,” while the region stands at a dangerous crossroads, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy has warned the Security Council.
Hundreds of millions are dying of hunger
Article / 30th May 2025Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry? By Vijay Prashad for Tricontinental.