Articles Tagged with ''united nations''

The number of hungry people worldwide rose to 815 million, increasing by nearly 38 million since 2015.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2017 – Despite numerous efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition around the globe, the number of people hungry is rising for the first time in more than a decade, says a new United Nations report.

Twenty million people in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are now in danger of starvation.

There are some twenty million people at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations. It is the world's most severe humanitarian crisis we have faced since 1945.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017 – The U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization is warning that mankind's future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from ....