Food crisis
A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many already impoverished families…
Global food crisis
As parents and global citizens, we are very worried about the cost-of-living crisis that the world is facing – the worst in over a generation. The interlinked shocks of the…
Faulty gas distribution to invite food crisis
Power shortage haunts Pakistan and its political leadership with increasing intensity as Pakistan's majority the Muslim population enters the holy month of Ramazan. The experts estimate that electricity shortages cost…
Another food crisis likely
Freak weather in some of the world’s vital food-producing regions is ravaging crops and threatening another global food crisis like the price shocks that unleashed social and political unrest in…
The coming food crisis
For an economy that relies heavily on agricultural productivity and employs two-thirds of the country’s population in the farming sector, the massive floods destroyed not only major food crops of…
Food banks are a ‘lifesaver’ as UK feels cost of living crisis
“This absolutely has been a lifesaver to me,” says Michael Cox. The 51-year-old hasn’t eaten in two days and so finally resolved to visit one of Britain’s growing number of…
Crisis of food prices
‘Food prices have surged more than 20% this year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. About 345 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity, according to the World Food Programme,…
Cost-of-living crisis forces more Brits to foodbanks
On an overcast morning in Bradford, northern England, a steady stream of locals arrive at a foodbank to collect produce parcels described as “a lifesaver” during the worst cost-of-living crisis…
In Spain, food aid queues grow as poverty outpaces 2008 crisis
Accepting food handouts for the first time has become reality for thousands in Spain where poverty has soared during the epidemic, echoing the 2008 crisis from which many have barely…
Middle class in crisis
A BUSINESS publication recently reported that in the first five months of the current fiscal year, salaried employees contributed Rs200 billion as income tax. This is Rs72bn (or 56 per…
