• IPC projects nearly 26 000 displaced people in Baidoa to face catastrophic hunger as 5.4 million Somalis face crisis-level food insecurity

    ByRishav Kothari

    Nearly 26 000 internally displaced people in Baidoa are likely to face Catastrophe-level acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5) during October–December 2026, according to an IPC assessment released on September 23. The projection is separate from a conditional Risk of Famine under a plausible worst-case scenario involving more severe flooding and displacement, higher food prices, low wages and insufficient humanitarian assistance.

  • Rising hunger predicted across 16 global hotspots

    ByTW

    Food insecurity in 16 global regions, spanning 14 countries and two regional clusters, is expected to intensify from November 2024 through May 2025, according to a recent UN report.

  • Worldwide wheat prices jump 6.6% in a single day

    ByTeo Blašković

    Wheat prices jumped 6.6% worldwide in a single day with a decisive turnaround under the pressure of the resumption of dialogue between the US and China which seems interested in buying foreign wheat and corn, which marked an increase of 4.6%.

  • China stockpiling food at historically high levels

    ByTeo Blašković

    China is stockpiling food at historically high levels and now has more than half of the world's maize and other grains. By mid-2022, the country is estimated to hold 69% of the world’s corn reserves, 60% of rice, and 51% of wheat. At the end of 2021,…

  • Southern Angola facing the worst drought since 1981, leading to severe hunger

    ByTW

    People living in drought-stricken provinces of southern Angola are facing the worst drought since 1981 and an extended hunger season. According to ECHO, the poor harvests have severely affected the population access to food in this region, which is highly dependent…

  • A months’ ration of bread now at 44 percent of monthly minimum wage, Lebanon

    ByTW

    Bread prices in Lebanon soared another 11% due to the worsening crisis, setting a monthly ration of family bread at 44% of the minimum monthly wage. A bag of flatbread costs 5 000 Lebanese Pounds in supermarkets, over three times as much as last year, according to…

  • Worst drought in 40 years hits southern Madagascar

    ByTeo Blašković

    Parts of southern Madagascar are under the worst drought conditions since at least 1981. The region is now in its fifth year of drought which wiped out harvests and hampered access to food. In three months to January 2021, there was less than 50% of the normal…