food crisis

About a quarter of Congo's 99 million people face a food crisis and half of all orphans suffer from malnutrition, says World Food Programme.

North Korea has effectively acknowledged serious food shortages, South Korea's unification ministry said.

More than a quarter of the population of 22 million is now struggling to secure adequate, nutritious food, the United Nations says.

Almost half of the world's calorie intake is derived from essential crops such as maize, rice and wheat.

The agreement was designed to alleviate global food shortages, with Ukraine's customers including some of the world's poorest countries.

FELDA will table a paper on suggestions to tackle the food crisis, Minister in Prime Minister's Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said.

Zelenskiy said the world was on the brink of a "terrible food crisis", with Ukraine unable to export large amounts of wheat, corn, oil.

To address the economic crisis due to the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, he said the government has formulated short, medium and long-term measures to stabilise food supplies and prices.

MAFI today assured that food supply in the country has not reached crisis level as claimed by some quarters but is still sufficient.

There is a sufficient supply of fish in the country, and the recent surge in demand is caused by panic buying following reports of a food crisis, the Fisheries Department said.

Fertiliser prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Andrei Melnichenko said.

After decades of war and suffering, Afghans are facing "perhaps their most perilous hour"

The world must ensure access to food supplies as forcefully as it moved to ensure access to vaccines.

The project is preparing land to grow rice, cassava and corn, to counter the nation's reliance on imported food.

According to experts, 821 million people go to bed hungry and a newly-published Global Report on Food Crisis indicated an additional 135 million are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.

Malaysia's international reserves rose to US$118.0 billion as at Nov 15, 2024, up from US$117.6 billion on Oct 30, 2024.

The findings announced are part of a years-long study of the history of the cosmos focusing upon dark energy.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) wishes to offer the following clarifications to the issues raised.

The Online Safety Advocacy Group (OSAG) stands united with people in Malaysia in the fight against serious online harms.

Malaysia's inflation rate for October 2024 has increased to 1.9 per cent, up from 1.8 per cent in September this year.

For the first time, Saudi Arabia is participating in the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition held recently in Zhuhai.