Floods, food & debt crises, and 77th UNGA session
The United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA’s) 77th Session from September 13-27 comes at a very crucial time for Pakistan, as the country suffers from unprecedented floods, while it was already…
From war to wild weather, global crop problems point to years of high food prices
Eric Broten had planned to sow about 5,000 acres of corn this year on his farm in North Dakota, but persistent springtime rains limited him to just 3,500 in a…
Digital food for thought
The world is said to be producing plenty of food, still the number of undernourished has been rising since 2014. One in five children under the age of five is…
Food inflation
The global average rate of inflation hovers around 3.2 percent. The rate of inflation in Pakistan hovers around 9 percent. The most recent Sensitive Price Index, comprising 51 essential items…
Food insecurity
I was shocked to read the ‘International Food Security Assessment 2021-31’ by the United States Department of Agriculture. I was shocked to find out that 38 percent of Pakistan’s population…
Food insufficiency
IT was sobering to learn that Pakistan had imported $6.12 billion worth of foodstuff in the first nine months of the current financial year, up 54 per cent from last…
A food authority
State regulatory mechanisms in Pakistan currently extend to a range of critical commodities and services, such as drugs, electricity, oil, gas, telecommunications, media, aviation, money and chemicals, which are governed…
Britain gets creative in fighting rampant food waste
One of Europe's worst offenders on food waste, Britain is beginning to get its act together thanks to a surge in volunteer initiatives that help the poor as well as…
Villagers in Zimbabwe skip meals to save scant food
Villagers in Zimbabwe are skipping meals and foraging for wild fruit as food stocks run out after a poor harvest blamed on drought and controversial land reforms. "Even if the…
Food costs eating into consumers’ saving
Martha Franco says she hadn't really noticed the sharp drop in gasoline prices, even though the mother of three is always shuttling the kids around in her SUV. She has…
