This is a four million increase in the number of people currently dealing with food insecurity in that region. Mali is facing the worst situation – around 2,600 people there are presumed to be experiencing catastrophic hunger – IPC food classification index phase 5 (read our explainer on the IPC system here). “The time to…
—-File photo As soon as the crescent of Eid is visible, while chaos is seen everywhere, the women busy with household affairs focus on the menu of the feast on Eid so that there is no shortage of food for the sake of the guests. On the special occasion of Eid, where new clothes are…
That’s according to the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick, speaking in-depth to UN News exactly six months since hostilities began with the Hamas-led terror attack. He underlined that the entire UN aid effort is about saving lives “and nothing else.” The veteran humanitarian was speaking as the Israeli defence forces said…
Geneva: The Food Waste Index, a sub-sector of the United Nations Environment Programme, has released a report indicating that 19 percent of food produced worldwide will be wasted as waste in 2022, which is about 1.05 billion metric tons. equal to food. According to American media, the United Nations report has also reviewed the measures…
The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of food went to waste. Some 19 per cent of food available to consumers was lost overall at retail, food service, and household levels. That is in addition to around 13 per cent of food lost in the…
“As of today, UNRWA, the main lifeline for Palestine refugees, is denied from providing lifesaving assistance to northern Gaza,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote in a social media post on X. He called the decision “outrageous”, saying it was made to intentionally obstruct lifesaving aid deliveries during a man-made famine in the northern part of…
For months, the UN has been warning of a looming famine, particularly in northern Gaza as everything needed to sustain life has either been destroyed or simply run out. This is now being translated into , not as a result of shells and bullets, but for lack of proper nutrition – or any nutrition at…
The emergency relief agency said that a 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to northern Gaza on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint. “Although today’s convoy did not make it to the north to…
Maryland: A new study has found that an asthma medication that has been used for 20 years reduces the risk of fatal food allergies. Researchers in the US found in a study that Zollar, a drug used to treat asthma for years, significantly reduced severe allergies to foods such as peanuts, cashews, milk and eggs….
TOKYO: Japanese citizens who will soon get their food ordered by an autonomous robot on the streets of Tokyo. New facilities were introduced with the help of modern technology. In this regard, the foreign news agency According to the report ‘Uber Eats’ Introduces New Robot Delivery Service In Japan, Uber will officially launch an autonomous…
