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The food crisis has been described as a "very complex emergency" by Raj Patel who said it is a crisis of affordability, poverty and debt.

Saloua Raouda Choucair (Lebanon), Chores, 1948. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reports that, every minute, a child is pushed into hunger in fifteen countries most ravaged by the global food crisis. Twelve of these fifteen countries are in Africa (from Burkina Faso to Sudan), one is in the Caribbean (Haiti), and two

The war in Ukraine has been catastrophic for world food prices, writes Vijay Prashad. But the problem didn't start then.  By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, or UNICEF, reports that, every minute, a c

by Yanis Iqbal / April 5th, 2021 SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, BRAZIL – MARCH 10: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former president, speaks during a press conference after convictions against him were annulled at the Sindicato dos Metalurgicos do ABC on March 10, 2021 in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images) On January 24, 2018, in Porto Alegre, Lula was tried at the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Region (TRF-4), which confirmed the decision of Judg...

March 10, 2021 Public Health in Brazil Rafael Pérez-Escamilla addresses the Brazilian Senate on household food insecurity and the Sustainable Development goals, Brasilia, 2016 Photo by Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Yale School of Public Health Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., has worked around the world during a long and productive career to create better health and nutrition outcomes, with a focus on promoting breastfeeding, household food security, and combatting malnutrition, including o...

Consumption pattern, not economic shock behind poor child health indicators By Neeraj Kumar, Arup Mitra. Dated: 12/31/2020 1:01:23 PM The findings of the latest round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) conducted in 2019-20 covering 22 States/UTs under Phase-I present a somewhat disappointing picture of children’s health in India. Majority of the experts, based on prima facie evidence, just highlighted the deteriorating sign of child health in terms of increase in proportion of stunted...