hunger

In cities like Tucson, Ariz., neighbours are planting trees to provide shade — and food.

Russia halted an unprecedented wartime deal on Monday that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country's development goals and slow economic growth, new research shows.

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a new report released by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies.

Campaigns for food bank donations are a staple of the holiday season, but some Canadian food insecurity researchers say the appeals can be tough to swallow.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event focused on reaching global development goals that the Gateses' foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

A likely jetlagged Justin Trudeau is shifting gears from mourning a monarch to making the world safer for democracy — and it's only Tuesday.

Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Over a fifth of people in Alberta likely struggled to afford food last year, a recent analysis by University of Toronto researchers has shown.

In other parts of the world, the kind of nightmare scenarios the West is anticipating have already arrived. 

More than one-third of Canadians — 38 per cent — call money their biggest stressor, according to the FP Canada 2022 Financial Stress Index.

No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched four die this year. A drought in the Horn of Africa has taken them, one by one.

Healthy and tasty food could soon be commonplace in Canadian schools after years of neglect, advocates say. 

Nakate spoke of her disappointment in the outcome of the U.N. climate talks in Scotland and what she and other young activists plan for the year to come.

The United Nations is predicting dire hunger for more than half of Afghanistan's people in the coming months unless Canada and its Western allies step up with greater financial support.