Food Ration Cuts Are Becoming the Norm as Aid Agencies Struggle to Keep Up Kimberly Curtis March 8, 2018Facing a massive funding shortfall, the World Food Program in January cut rations for Congolese refugees in Rwanda by 25%. Protests against those cuts turned deadly on February 27th when Rwandan police fired into a crowd, killing 11 refugees. This incident ...
Map of the Day: The Places Where the UN Warns of Major risks to Food Security in the Next Three Months Mark Leon Goldberg January 5, 2018Today's map comes from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. It is part of the FAO's early warning system that seeks to forecast where food insecurity will be most acute in the coming months. This map forecasts expected emergencies in the first quarter o...
Map of the Day: A New Food Emergency Mark Leon Goldberg August 14, 2017Today'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, 2017Journalists 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, 2017Today'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, 2017Somalia 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, 2017The 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, 2017We 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 ...
