Skip to content
Search
Human content, AI powered search.

Latest Stories

Hunger Pains

GZERO Media’s special coverage of the ongoing food crisis: the world faces the sharpest “hunger pains” since the end of World War 2. The world is on the brink of a crisis that could push more than a billion people towards starvation. A crisis that could upend governments, roil global markets, and rattle households around the world.
A collage depicting food price increases.
Annie Gugliotta/GZERO Media
Hunger Pains

Are high food prices here to stay?

Popular

Internally displaced Somali women stand in a queue waiting for relief food to be served south of Mogadishu, September 5, 2011.
Reuters
News

Famine looms in Somalia

Innovation: cause for optimism amid the global food crisis
youtu.be
Video

Innovation: cause for optimism amid the global food crisis

Russia has geared up to avoid food scarcity.
Paige Fusco
Climate

Food security: one area where Putin’s plans are bearing fruit

Recent

Food emergency: what to do when people are hungry now
youtu.be
GZERO World Clips

Food emergency: what to do when people are hungry now

A box of food being delivered in shipments from a plane| GZERO World with Ian Bremmer - the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: Salvaging the world we leave our kids with innovative philanthropy

Listen: Global inequality has reached a level we haven’t seen in our lifetimes and recent geopolitical convulsions have only made things worse. The rich have gotten richer while extreme poverty has exploded. UN Foundation President Elizabeth Cousens thinks it's the perfect time for institutions backed by the 1% to step up. She speaks with Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast about the key role that innovative philanthropy could play to address problems exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, economic fallout from the COVID pandemic, and a warming planet.

The perils of depending on food imports: UN Foundation chief
Crisis Recovery

The perils of depending on food imports: UN Foundation chief

We all know there's a global food crisis due to the impact of shortages of Russian and Ukrainian grain, fertilizers, and fuel. But UN Foundation chief Elizabeth Cousens thinks high prices are hurting some countries even more. While addressing famine is the top priority, Cousens says in a Global Stage livestream conversation that the long-term plan should be "laying the foundation for a much more resilient, equitable food system."

Focus on Africa: hunger, energy, climate - and the path to growth
Crisis Recovery

Focus on Africa: hunger, energy, climate - and the path to growth

Sub-Saharan Africa was on the brink of economic recovery last year. Now, the World Bank expects its growth to slow in 2023. With global inflation on the rise, rising food and fuel costs “actually put lives at risk in a way few other shocks can," says International Monetary Fund (IMF) senior economist Andrew Tiffin.

Is the global food crisis here to stay?
News

Is the global food crisis here to stay?

The mood surrounding the annual UN General Assembly kickoff this week has been grim. In 2022, with total war returned to Europe and the global pandemic having scrambled supply chains, the food crisis is where the conversation is at.

António Guterres: the world won’t have enough food in 2023 without Russian fertilizer
GZERO World Clips

António Guterres: the world won’t have enough food in 2023 without Russian fertilizer

The UN- and Turkey-brokered deal with Russia to unblock Ukrainian grain exports stuck at Black Sea ports was a big success for the United Nations — and for Secretary-General António Guterres. The UN chief tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World that this year we have enough food. But we may not in 2023 if we don't fix the Russian fertilizer market soon.

What We’re Watching: A grain of truth & a win for Biden
News

What We’re Watching: A grain of truth & a win for Biden

Shortages reach far beyond food
Living Beyond Borders Articles

Shortages reach far beyond food

Ian Bremmer: Global middle class erosion making people hungrier — and angrier
Video

Ian Bremmer: Global middle class erosion making people hungrier — and angrier

Until recently, global development had been defined by globalization, especially when it comes to a growing middle class and poverty reduction. Not anymore, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer said during a livestream conversation about the global food crisis hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Food prices are falling: that’s good news, right? Right?
News

Food prices are falling: that’s good news, right? Right?

Don’t look now, but one of the worst stories in the world is actually getting better. Slightly.

Shocks making it harder to meet Sustainable Development Goals
Climate

Shocks making it harder to meet Sustainable Development Goals

After the pandemic and now the global food crisis, meeting the UN's Sustainable Goals by the 2030 deadline will be a tall order. But actually it's previous systemic challenges aggravated by those crises that are undermining the push to achieve the SDGs,Kathryn Hollifield, from the World Bank's Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, explained during a livestream discussion on the global food crisis hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.