Floods, wildfires, conflicts, earthquakes, economic shocks, hurricanes or epidemics: These unexpected and often dramatic events affect people's lives and jobs, destroy crops, wipe out livestock and ...

In the past decade or so, farmers around the world have faced a string of crises that show no sign of abating. Most recently, the conflict in the Middle East triggered supply shocks in energy and ...

WWF Director General James Leape will tell the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm that a world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — (MARKET WIRE) — 05/28/08 — Compassion International has created the Global Food Crisis Fund to deal with a problem that experts say is sweeping the planet. U.N. officials have ...

Three features of today’s unordered world are converging to create a devastating food crisis. Russia’s war in Ukraine is ...

Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could have a devastating effect on the world’s food supply, driving up grocery prices and sending impoverished countries into food insecurity. The main focus of ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 31 2026 (IPS) - While media coverage of Iran’s restrictions on passage through the Hormuz Straits focuses on fuel prices, partial closure is also disrupting crucial ...

Warnings of a looming food crisis are growing louder as the ongoing US-Israel war continues to disrupt global supply chains. International observers caution that the conflict, if prolonged, could ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Carl Skau of the World Food Programme about the food insecurity crisis in Yemen.

For more than a decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist has accurately predicted 85-95 percent of the countries most likely to face a worsening humanitarian ...