Reports

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors and reports staple food prices in cities and towns in food-insecure countries. The Price Watch presents a summary of key trends in selected markets. Prices for all commodities and markets…

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors and reports staple food prices in cities and towns in food insecure countries. The Price Watch presents a summary of key trends in selected markets. Prices for all commodities and…

The Global Update provides food security information on trends on food access and utilization. Key food access indicators reported are food consumption, coping strategies and terms of trade. These indicators are proximate to nutritional status thus allow the early…

United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY Highlights of GAO-10-352, a report to congressional committees What GAO Found The U.S. government supports a wide variety of programs and activities for global food security, but lacks readily available comprehensive data on…

Natural disasters, climate change and economic problems have sparked a food crisis throughout the developing world. Every six seconds, a child dies due to malnutrition and related health issues. That's why AmeriCares supports programs to improve nutrition and medical care…

Ethiopia East Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades. In Ethiopia, the government estimates at least 6 million people-about half of them children-need emergency food aid through the end of this year. But, international donors have fallen…

Save the Children Experts Available to Discuss Current Food Crises in Guatemala, Ethiopia and East Africa WESTPORT, Conn. (Oct. 13, 2009) - Food prices have fallen from last year's peaks, wealthy countries are starting to recover from the financial crisis,…

Highlights - The food security situation in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia is acute and deteriorating. The crop harvest of the main season is about 15 per cent lower than the historical average. This comes on the back of more…

The World Food Programme (WFP) and the Millennium Villages Project announced the launch of a new partnership aimed at dramatically reducing hunger and malnutrition across Africa, at a Headquarters press conference today. "This is a wonderful day, for me personally and…

FEWS NET overviews EAST AFRICA: In Kenya, the 2009 national long rains assessment has found that food security among pastoralists has declined in Marsabit, Isiolo, Samburu, Tana River and marginal agricultural producers in Mwingi and Kitui due to the combined…