Map of the Day: A New Food Emergency Mark Leon Goldberg August 14, 2017 Today's map comes from a UN-entity known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification program. This is a group of food security and agricultural experts from the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization International identifies area...
VIDEO: A BBC Journalist Snuck Into Yemen To Report on the Worst Humanitarian Crisis Mark Leon Goldberg July 28, 2017 Journalists routinely hitch rides on UN planes. If there is space on airlifts transporting humanitarian goods and personnel, the UN generally welcomes journalists to ride along and report on some forgotten humanitarian crisis. Such was the case last week when ...
PODCAST: An Unprecedented Coalition of NGOs Has Formed to Fight a Global Food Emergency Mark Leon Goldberg July 20, 2017 On July 17 a very rare thing happened in the world of humanitarian relief. Eight organizations that typically compete for donor dollars joined forces to launch a joint appeal to raise funds and awareness around a global food crisis. Some 20 millio...
Map of the Day: In Yemen, a Looming Famine and Current Cholera Outbreak form a Deadly Nexus. Mark Leon Goldberg May 19, 2017 Today's map comes from the European Commission. It shows an alarming cholera outbreak is spreading in Yemen in exactly the same places that are suffering most from food insecurity. To date, there have been over 11,000 cases of cholera detected over the last th...
Map of the Day: Displaced by Drought in Somalia Mark Leon Goldberg May 12, 2017 Somalia is in the midst of its most catastrophic drought since 1950. Some 3.2 million people face emergency levels of food insecurity. And that is causing massive population displacement. Today's map comes from the European Union's Emergency Response Coord...
The World Food Program Needs $961 Million to Avert 20 Million Deaths From Famine Mark Leon Goldberg April 20, 2017 The statistics are only getting worse. Nearly 20 million people across four countries are currently at risk of famine. This includes 1.6 million children who are already considered "severely malnourished." If food does not arrive soon, the numbers of deaths...
A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation. Carol Jean Gallo March 22, 2017 We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria are not solely a consequence of natural disaster or climate change. Rather, people are starving to death because other people with the power ...
The “Four Famines,” Explained Kimberly Curtis March 17, 2017 Hunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South Sudan last month, and three other situations around the world are precariously close to crossing a threshold of food insecurity that leads to fa...
Famine, Explained (VIDEO) Mark Leon Goldberg March 13, 2017 What three conditions trigger the United Nations to declare a "famine?" What causes a famine? And how do you stop a famine? These questions are acute right now as the world faces an unprecedented number of people living in famine or near famine conditions. ...
