In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

Instead, he cites reams of evidence to show that famine is not imminent. He also points out that Malthus became less pessimistic after a few years and cheekily observes that “Malthus was not a ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up in humanitarian assistance helped to avert catastrophe. Today, food insecurity on the increase once again, with 3.4 million people already ...

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The United Nations on Wednesday said “the already catastrophic situation" in Sudan has worsened since the last Security Council briefing just weeks ago and that famine is now a reality in ...

CAIRO — The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of half a million people as fighting intensifies between the ...

Famine, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has already taken hold in more than 10 areas, with a further 17 reported to be on the brink of famine. Nevertheless, despite the rapidly ...

Famine was first declared in Zamzam in August, after 15 months of war. It has since spread to two more displacement camps near El-Fasher. A UN-backed assessment expects the famine to expand to ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...

Rome [ENA] Twenty months into the conflict, Sudan continues to slide into a widening Famine crisis characterized by widespread starvation and a significant surge in acute malnutrition. The IPC ...