Tag: world hunger
Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis
Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved.
UN turns to world leaders and the wealthy to help with...
“We’ve got conflict, climate change, and Covid-19 driving up the numbers of the acutely hungry, and there are now more than 45 million people marching towards the brink of starvation.”
Over 250 organizations join together to demand aid to the millions...
“There is no place for famine and starvation in the 21st century. History will judge us all by the actions we take today.”
More of the world’s population is facing food insecurity than ever...
Now, roughly 11 percent of the world's population is facing food insecurity.
The hunger president
As famine descends on a huge swath of the globe, the White House is rolling back aid, ramping up conflict, and risking more climate chaos.
The key to feeding the world? It’s healthy soil
Conventional farming practices that degrade soil health undermine humanity’s ability to continue feeding everyone over the long run.
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Vermont becomes first state to ban weed-killing pesticide paraquat
The legislation passed with broad bipartisan support in Vermont's general assembly after extensive medical research linked the pesticide to a significantly increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Food insecurity reaches near-pandemic levels as economic strain deepens across America
Federal Reserve researchers find rising hunger, declining financial confidence, and growing hardship concentrated among lower-income families, households with children, and SNAP recipients.
The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home stretch
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.
Donald (disaster) Trump
And worse yet, those groupings are likely to be with us long after our current president has gone off to that great cheeseburger stand in the sky.
The roots of the US-Russia rivalry
Russia-U.S. relations became most visible during their Cold War confrontation and are now dangerously dysfunctional. Long-established suspicion and overlapping interests have shaped periods of cooperation and competition for centuries, a cycle that risks repeating itself indefinitely.