Food Crisis
- World
FAO chief warns conflicts, climate likely to fuel more food crises
Rome: Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), warned that conflicts and climate-related impacts are likely to fuel food crises, and called for resilience and more efforts for…
- World
Food crisis: G7 alliance offers aid to Sri Lanka
Colombo: Sri Lankan acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has revealed that the G7 alliance on global food crisis has offered the country US$ 14 billion aid to spend on food. During an international…
- Middle East
Lebanese wheat farmers struggle to sustain livelihoods amid spiralling inflation
Beirut: Crop harvesters are busy reaping the sprawling wheat fields in eastern and southern Lebanon, marking the start of this year’s harvest season amid a food crisis in Lebanon compounded by global…
- Middle East
Yemen looks for fresh funding, wheat supplies amidst escalating food crisis
Yemen is looking for new wheat sources, but will require assistance to pay for increasingly expensive imports, informed an official and a major importer, as the World Food Programme warned of food…
- World
Shanghai: Food crisis, frayed tempers amid COVID-19 lockdown
Beijing: With the lockdown in China’s business capital showing no signs of ending, citizens are getting impatient and there have been reports of protests and clashes with police. Chinese social media posts have…
