El Niño has arrived, and it’s going to be a doozy. Here’s what that means for global food security, according to experts. Reading time 7 minutes The El Niño of 1877 and 1878 was one of the strongest ...

On June 30, as news reports highlighted the prospect for even larger numbers of deaths due to the spread of the devastating Ebola-virus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo across the African ...

Over the past decade acute hunger numbers have doubled, while funding retreats to 2016 levels. Acute food insecurity and malnutrition levels remain alarmingly high and deeply entrenched, with crises ...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have raised fuel costs and caused shortages of key fertilizers around the world, wreaking havoc on the agricultural industry. Adam ...

Global food systems are fragile. Recent shocks such as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have raised prices and exacerbated food insecurity. Governments are ...

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In the nearly two months since the start of the Iran war, prices of fuel and fertiliser have surged worldwide. The question now preoccupying economists and policymakers is when – and how hard – the ...

Maximo Torero, Chief Economist at The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, warns that the war in Iran is choking the global supply of fertilizer and a food crisis could follow ...