When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine like Ukraine's Holodomor (1932–1933) is now recognized by more and more states ...

The 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16 events shifted rainfall across continents, causing floods, droughts, fires, crop failures and disease outbreaks | Anadolu ...

Wracked by years of civil war and lingering conflict, northern Ethiopia does not need one more thing to go wrong. But that is exactly what is happening in this key region of Africa’s second most ...

The United Nation says a famine is imminent in Gaza. NPR's Ailsa Chang checks in with Alex de Waal, leading scholar on famines, about the situation in the strip. If you ask people who study the topic, ...

Famine is a severe, deadly hunger crisis—but it’s predictable, and preventable. Conflict, climate shocks like drought, rising food prices, and a lack of aid funding drive famine. Early action, cash ...

The international organization that monitors hunger crises around the world has declared that parts of Gaza are in famine. The U.N.-backed group of experts said that half a million people in Gaza, a ...

The United Nations agency World Food Programme on Tuesday warned about the famine-like humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza as reminiscent of disasters seen in Ethiopia and Biafra, Nigeria in the ...

The international organization that monitors hunger crises around the world has declared that parts of Gaza are in famine. The U.N.-backed group of experts said that half a million people in Gaza, a ...

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has publicly admitted that the country faces food shortages while also seeking COVID-19 vaccines. Could this situation provide an opportunity to enact "disaster ...

Floods have repeatedly reshaped cities, destroyed communities, and caused some of the largest death ...