Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds and Human Rights
Food is the building block of life. It fuels our bodies and minds, nurtures our children, and powers our economies.As we celebrate this year’s World…
Cosmopolitanism and Global Solidarity in Collective Action for Madagascar’s Famine
The term “cosmopolitanism” finds its roots in the Greek word “kosmopolitês,ˮ meaning “citizen of the world.” Based on this lexical definition, cosmopolitanism is the belief…
Impacts of Foreign Assistance Cuts on Africa: USAID’s Role and Challenges Ahead
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee, led by Republicans, has proposed an 11% reduction in foreign assistance funding, which includes a substantial $485 million cut from…
“Grain from Ukraine”: A humanitarian success the world must support
Ukraine has been helping vulnerable populations across the world even while faced with an increasingly challenging war of aggression in its own territory – in…
Famine Strikes Sudan – Modern Diplomacy
April has marked one year since the war has broken out April has marked one year since the war has broken out in Sudan. During…
China’s Looming Food Crisis – Modern Diplomacy
For over a decade, I have dedicated my efforts to understanding the complex dynamics of inflation and food scarcity in China. Despite moments of doubt,…
Tjuntjuntjara has supplies flown in after floods threaten WA community’s food security
In short: The only food supply road into Tjuntjuntjara is in urgent need of repairs, threatening the food security of one of the country's most isolated communities. Food has…
North Gaza aid mission reveals more infants may die from hunger
A rare opportunity to deliver desperately needed supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza for the first time in months has been welcomed by UN humanitarians…
Turkey’s Humanitarian Diplomacy in Somalia: Humanitarian vs National Interests
Humanitarian diplomacy aims to maximize all forms of support for operations and programs and build necessary partnerships if humanitarian goals are to be achieved (Regnier,…
Environmental Protection and Food Production in the Cerrado Could Create $72bn for Brazil
A new model for economic growth in the Cerrado could create $72 billion a year for Brazil’s economy by balancing environmental protection measures while boosting…
Feeding Africa: Sanctions Make It Worse, Imports Don’t Help, What’s the Solution?
Today’s world is going through major transformations. Among the most sensitive issues remains the availability of food and the challenges tied to it. In the…
Gaza: Northern aid push frustrated as regional tensions rise
UN humanitarians reported on Monday that a food convoy in Gaza had been hit by shelling after a deadly weekend of hostilities in Gaza in…
WFP pleads for aid access in Sudan, amid reports of starvation
The number of hungry people in Sudan has doubled over the past year, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, adding that it is…
Red Sea unrest is bad news for World’s food supply
Shipping disruption risks higher prices and food spoiling. That’s threatening to halt a slowdown in global food inflation, notes Bloomberg. Chaos in the Red Sea…
The Global Food Crisis as an International Security Threat in Non-Traditional Security Issues
Since World War I, II, and the Cold War, International Security has tended to be seen only from state-centered and military-oriented approaches known as traditional…
Everyone is hungry in Gaza, warn UN humanitarians
UN humanitarians repeated dire concerns for civilians caught up in the war in Gaza on Tuesday, amid reports of continued Israeli bombardment of the southern…
Sahel: Africa’s Most Crisis-Prone Region
The Sahel is the semi-arid region of Africa, that separates the Sahara Desert to the north and Savannas to the south and stretches from west…
Gaza crisis: Starvation must never be allowed to happen
As the Security Council prepared to meet once again in New York on Friday for a long-delayed vote on a pause in fighting to allow…
Feeding the Future: Rethinking Food Security in a Climate-Altered Landscape
“Amidst the changing tides of our climate, a simmering concern echoes louder than ever: how do we secure our nourishment in a world where the…
The new Black Sea humanitarian corridor
“We have shown the world that Ukraine continues to guarantee global food security”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently asserted while talking about the new maritime…