After DOGE dismantled USAID in 2025, the United States’ oldest emergency food aid program—Food for Peace—was moved to USDA, an agency with no crisis-response expertise. Now, Food for Peace is sending ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. While many associate famines with starvation and empty plates, ...

Large volcanic eruptions may have played a bigger role in triggering historical famines across China than previously ...

For months, U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine. Earlier this month, Israel eased a weekslong blockade on the territory as a result ...

Six million people in Somalia are facing crisis levels of food insecurity from a lack of rain and spiking food and water prices due to the Middle East war, United Nations-backed experts and ...

The Gaza Strip's largest city is now gripped by famine, according to the world's leading authority on food crises. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said Friday that famine ...

Famine is the most severe form of acute food insecurity. How, and when, is famine declared? And what happens next? Your questions answered. On May 4, 2025, a health worker at a UNICEF-supported ...

Hunger killed an estimated 4 million people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 — the result of Holodomor, a famine inflicted by the Stalin-led Soviet regime. New research shows how the harm experienced ...

The world’s leading food insecurity authority has officially declared famine in Gaza, after officials finally determined that Israel’s almost two year long, near-total blockade on the 2 million ...