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DON'T LET THEM EAT CAKE: FOOD RECALL ISSUED FOR SOME KING'S PASTRY PRODUCTS
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Eight cake products have been added to a food recall because of undeclared hazelnuts on the labels of the products... READ MORE›
YEMEN FOOD CRISIS LEAVES MILLIONS AT RISK OF STARVING
Yemen had one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world before the current conflict, according to the WFP... READ MORE›
FOOD AID FOR 80,000 ROHINGYA BLOCKED BY MYANMAR
Rakhine state is where the country's Muslim Rohingya minority group has allegedly faced systematic persecution since unrest broke out in 2012... READ MORE›
BEE POPULATION CRISIS: NORWAY BUILDS WORLD'S FIRST HIGHWAY MEANT ONLY FOR BEES
Food production could be severely affected, since nearly 30 to 40 percent of food production takes place due to natural pollination... READ MORE›
UN ACCUSED OF FAILING AS NORTH-EAST NIGERIA AT RISK OF FAMINE
But Maj Gen Leo Irabor, who leads the military operation against Boko Haram in the region, said hunger in the Bama camp was relative ... READ MORE›
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WFP SUSPENDS SYRIA REFUGEE FOOD AID
6 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis... READ MORE›
URBAN FARMERS: COMMUNITY FOOD GROWING AROUND THE WORLD A?? IN PICTURES
Our readers shared photos and stories of community gardens and food-growing projects around the world from Copenhagen to Detroit to Salford... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM FALLS VICTIM TO A FOOD CRISIS IT CREATED
Such attacks are becoming increasingly common in the areas bordering Boko Haram's base in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›
LACK OF FUNDS: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME DROPS AID TO ONE-THIRD OF SYRIAN REFUGEES
Jordan hosts about 630,000 Syrian refugees, including more than half a million in communities and the rest in camps... READ MORE›
WHAT'S THE BEST BIT OF THE UN? NO 3
The world's largest humanitarian agency delivers food and other relief supplies to about 80 million people in more than 80 countries every year... READ MORE›
FDA WANTS FOOD COMPANIES TO HAND OVER THEIR PATHOGENS
For the pilot, CDC compared whole genome sequencing to PFGE, and found that sequencing reduced the number of red herrings... READ MORE›
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME PINS HOPES ON APP TO NOURISH 20,000 SYRIAN CHILDREN
In July this year, the WFP announced that it would have to halve the value of food vouchers given to Syrian refugees in Lebanon... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE COULD MAKE 175 MILLION MORE PEOPLE GO HUNGRY, REPORT SAYS
Unchecked climate change risks plunging a further 175 million people into hunger and undernourishment worldwide, undermining progress in reducing food insecurity, a US government report warns... READ MORE›
BOMBS HIT DARAYA AFTER AID DELIVERY
Late on Thursday, the food-aid delivery came after the UN said the Syrian government had permitted access to 15 of the 19 besieged areas within the country... READ MORE›
GLOBAL LAND DEALS: WHERE FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE INVESTING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD A??A INTERACTIVE
Global land deals where foreign companies are investing in the developing world interactive... READ MORE›
U.S. AGENCIES PRESS FOOD COMPANIES TO PREVENT DISEASE OUTBREAKS
U.S. agencies press food companies to prevent disease outbreaks... READ MORE›
SYRIA UNITED NATIONS SAYS FOOD AID WILL BE RESTORED
The money will also allow the agency to restore cutbacks imposed on internally displaced Syrians, at least until October... READ MORE›
'UNSAFE' ARTIFICIAL TRANS FATS IN FOOD MUST GO IN THREE YEARS, FDA ORDERS
'Unsafe' artificial trans fats in food must go in three years, FDA orders... READ MORE›
U.N. SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT FALLUJA CHILDREN, FOOD SUPPLY
Iraqi security forces operating in Falluja systematically separate men and boys over 12 from their families to check possible links with Islamic State... READ MORE›
64,000 SYRIANS STUCK ON SEALED JORDAN BORDER RUNNING OUT OF WATER, FOOD
No food and little water have reached 64,000 Syrian refugees stuck in the desert since Jordan sealed its border last week in response to a suicide attack,... READ MORE›
HUNGER HITS 1.5 MILLION IN ZIMBABWE AS MAIZE PRODUCTION HALVES
Zimbabwe's staple maize crop of 742 000 tonnes is down 53 per cent from 2014-15 according to data from the South African Development Community... READ MORE›
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'RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?' EMPTY WORDS AFTER ALEPPO
The world has watched in real time as the hell of the Syrian civil war has caught families in its grip and refused to let go... READ MORE›
JORDAN TO USE CRANES TO SEND AID TO 75,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES ACROSS BORDER
More than 1.3 million Syrian refugees have arrived in Jordan since the Syrian conflict began in 2011... READ MORE›
RUSSIA RESPONSIBLE WHOEVER STRUCK AID CONVOY
The US has reached the preliminary conclusion that it was Russian warplanes that bombed an aid convoy and warehouse belonging to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent... READ MORE›
FIVE YEARS' TALKING BRINGS NO CLOSER END TO SYRIAN CARNAGE
Until now failure has been the sum total of talks on ending the Syrian war... READ MORE›
UN PAYS TENS OF MILLIONS TO ASSAD REGIME UNDER SYRIA AID PROGRAMME
The hotel is deemed the safest place for UN personnel to stay in the Syrian capital... READ MORE›
ALEPPO 'HELL' PREVENTS SYRIA PEACE TALKS, SAY DIPLOMATS
In July there were at least 10 confirmed attacks on health facilities in Aleppo city... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE PUSHES U.S.-BACKED SYRIA REBELS FROM IRAQ BORDER; AID REACHES BESIEGED TOWNS
Islamic State's capture in 2014 of Al-Bukamal effectively erased the border between Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
UN OUTRAGE OVER REFUGEE DEATHS AS BOMBING DENIED BY SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
Ban urged the security council to refer the situation in Syria to the international criminal court... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN MPS URGE GOVERNMENTS TO MAKE AIRDROPS TO SYRIAN CIVILIANS
The UN says land deliveries are preferable to airdrops, but acknowledges that it needs Syrian government permission to operate... READ MORE›
BONO CALLS FOR 'MARSHALL PLAN' IN RESPONSE TO REFUGEE CRISIS
Bono calls for 'marshall plan' in response to refugee crisis middle east... READ MORE›
THE PUSH TO RESETTLE MORE SYRIANS IN THE U.S. ISN'T SPEEDING UP THE PROCESS
Ahmad, who is from the Syrian city of Aleppo, has filed a request to be resettled to the United States... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN, SYRIAN AIRSTRIKES HIT ISIS HARD IN FIGHT FOR ACCESS ROAD
The road, which fell to the Islamic State, is the Syrian military's only access route to Aleppo... READ MORE›