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Graphic Truth: Food insecurity spikes
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Graphic Truth: Food insecurity spikes

Hunger and poverty are on the rise in both the United States and Canada, with food insecurity levels spiking dramatically in 2023 as COVID-19 assistance programs expired. That’s been compounded by rising food costs that have left millions struggling to put food on the table.

The Real Campaign Hunger Games
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The Real Campaign Hunger Games

This is campaign season, which is the time when political leaders serve up all kinds of promises to fix stuff. But so far food insecurity has drawn as much political interest as a slab of tofu at a steakhouse.

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally
Sustainability

World Bank economist: The poorest are getting poorer globally

The combined shocks of multiple crises, including the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, food insecurity, and inflation, have taken a massive toll on the 75 least developed economies, according to World Bank Group’s Deputy Chief Economist Ayhan Kose.

Ukraine grain farm
Analysis

This year, the world held the line against hunger. Next year looks harder.

The worst fears of a global food crisis in 2023 did not come to pass, but the outlook for 2024 is grainy at best.

Graphic Truth: Food insecurity and poverty in the US & Canada
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Graphic Truth: Food insecurity and poverty in the US & Canada

Ian Explains: Why is Russia trying to starve the world?
Ian Explains

Ian Explains: Why is Russia trying to starve the world?

Why is Russia trying to starve the world? Nearly a year-and-a-half into its invasion of Ukraine—after the massacre of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, after the indiscriminate shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia, and after the torture of countless Ukrainian POWs—Moscow’s latest move may be its cruelest so far.

A collage depicting food price increases.
Hunger Pains

Are high food prices here to stay?

A perfect storm of pandemic shortages, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and extreme weather events have driven up food prices and threatened food security globally. Now, a strong El Niño event stretching into 2024 could exacerbate this food crisis, but not for everyone.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Russia, Sudan & the power of diplomacy
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Russia, Sudan & the power of diplomacy

GZERO World travels to UN headquarters in New York for a special conversation with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield ahead of the United States taking over the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August.

As Sudan war worsens, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says UN must help
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As Sudan war worsens, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says UN must help

On August 1, the United States will take over the presidency of the UN Security Council. Ian Bremmer sat down with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN headquarters in New York to find out what’s on the US agenda for the council presidency next month.

​Wade Brennan from Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services shows a mosquito that is capable of harboring malaria
News

Hard Numbers: Malaria makes moves in the US, Kramatorsk death toll, Britons go hungry, Brazil notches 19th century growth number, Israel’s politics crimp tech funding

20: The CDC has detected the first locally transmitted cases of malaria in the US in 20 years. Four of the cases were in Florida, the fifth in Texas. Aren’t those genetically modified mosquitos supposed to be preventing this? THEY HAD ONE JOB!