Current Events about Food Insecurity by Julia Vogel https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents What is the issue? - Summarise Author, date, news site, perspective of newspaper (purpose) en-us 2020-02-24 02:16:44 UTC 2023-06-13 12:05:24 UTC hello@padlet.com drought in Lesotho https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269263  Lesotho is experiencing a major food security crisis as a result of the El-Niño induced drought. The situation is increasing due to successive years of crop failures, low incomes and high food prices
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/30/drought-leaves-tens-of-thousands-in-lesotho-one-step-from-famine
-the guardian
30/1/20]]> 2020-02-24 02:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269263 Locust storm in South Sudan / Spread across east Africa https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269300 Peter Beaumont February 20th 2020, this source provides information on the recent outbreak in locusts in South Sudan, of which is already struggling due to hunger and years of civil war. The locust outbreak provides a threat because they ravage crops and grazing lands which can li it food sources. The appearance of the locust has been followed by many extreme weather conditions such as floods.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/20/huge-locust-swarms-raise-fears-of-food-shortages-in-south-sudan
Fox News
Bradford Betz February 20th 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/world/food-crisis-horn-of-africa-what-to-know
The source provides more information as to wear the locusts have swarmed, these areas are : Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and most recently South Sudan, as well as Eritrea and Djibouti. 76 million dollars has been funded to provide a cure to the outbreak of these pesticides. Even before the outbreak because of serious flooding and droughts 20 million faced high levels of food insecurity across east Africa
National Geographic
Madeline Stone
February 14th 2020
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/locust-plague-climate-science-east-africa/
This sources provides information as to why the locusts have appeared, these specific locusts (desert locusts) thrive following periods of heavy rainfall and unfortunately for these countries they have been swooped with such rainfall. Because of the three cyclones in 2018 this enabled extreme breeding of locusts. Ove r 1e million people who have been effected by this problem are suffering from server acute food insecurity , by June thee number will increase dramatically
CNBC
Elliott Smith
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/plague-of-locusts-threatens-east-african-economies-as-un-sounds-alarm.html
20th of February 2020
The FAO have estimated that 70,000 hectares of crops in Kenya and 30,000 hectares in Ethiopia have been infested.

Photo of person being swarmed by Locusts]]> 2020-02-24 02:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269300 1 of Every 3 Venezuelans Is Facing Hunger https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269982 https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/23/business/ap-lt-venezuela-food-insecurity.html


]]> 2020-02-24 02:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449269982 drought in madagascar https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449270062 - no rain since september 2019
- affecting areas androy and anosy
- 730,000 people facing food insecurity

https://www.afrik21.africa/en/madagascar-drought-drives-730000-people-to-food-insecurity/]]> 2020-02-24 02:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449270062 Locust storm in East Africa dun0066 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449270350 Huge swarms of desert locusts are wiping out food supplies for millions of people in East Africa. These locust creatures are large tropical grasshoppers that have power in flight. These grasshoppers are shredding apart villages and destroying thousands of hectares of farmland, and food sources for millions of people.

By Pat Brewer. February 11th 2020
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/how-climate-change-driving-food-insecurity

These locust storms are ripping through mainly East Africa places such as: Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen. The worst locust invasion in Africa in 25 years was recorded last July. The swarm emerged in Yemen and moved through Somalia and Ethiopia.

One recent swarm in Kenya was 40 kilometres long and 60 kilometres wide. That swarm would of had the capacity to devour the amount of food 82 million people rely on each day. But they not only eat crops, they devour animals’ food sources. This causes food insecurity because people are being left starved and helpless from grasshoppers destroying food sources and farmlands. To add to food sources being wiped out when farmlands are destroyed people are left with no job which means no income or money. Which makes it worse for them because they can’t pay for food.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2020-01-26%2Flocust-plague-in-east-africa-united-call-for-international-help%2F11901468&psig=AOvVaw0MtNLOF5SgZ1PxHp9rWPFO&ust=1582599757851000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCLD7g9qZ6ecCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO


These photo is showing a swarm of locusts in action]]> 2020-02-24 02:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449270350 Southern African drought bru0019 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449270869
Between November 2019 and April 2020 over one million people 20% of a population were suffering from food insecurity. It was caused by a drought which then lead to limited food availability which caused food prices to go up.

Author: unknown
Publication: OCHA

https://reliefweb.int/report/united-republic-tanzania/tanzania-acute-food-insecurity-situation-overview-rural-urban-and


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Global food waste twice as high as previously estimated 

Twice as much food]]> 2020-02-24 02:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449271453 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953619300668 ironman23579 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272048
Venesuala Food Crisis



]]> 2020-02-24 02:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272048 Jea0004 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272174 2020-02-24 02:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272174 31% of people in Bangladesh live in poverty https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272234 https://www.wfp.org/countries/bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the most populated countries in the world and around 50.000.000 of them live in poverty, not being able to purchase sufficient food and gaining the necessary nutrients. The World Food Programme  launched a emergency     
operation providing food to around 800.000 refugees 
: By the World Food Programme]]> 2020-02-24 02:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272234 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X19300130 food fight ironman23579 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272626 2020-02-24 02:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272626 Food insecurity and food deserts in Texas https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272889 1 in 7 people living in Texas are experiencing food insecurity. This is mostly due to “food deserts” . This term refers to areas where there is little to no supermarkets to provide nutritional food for people living in that area.]]> 2020-02-24 02:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449272889 South Sudan kee00092 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274218 More than half the people in South Sudan are suffering from food insecurity, around 6.5 million people.



]]> 2020-02-24 02:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274218 Poor Jea0004 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274523 Poor child forced to eat unripe lime to survive]]> 2020-02-24 02:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274523 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274706 2020-02-24 02:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274706 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274741 2020-02-24 02:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274741 People with inadequate access to food are 10%-37% more likely to die prematurely https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274748 Researchers looked at data from the Canadian Community Health Survey 2005-2017 on more than half a million adults in Canada. They categorized people as food secure, moderately or severely food insecure. By the end of the study period, 25 460 people had died prematurely, with people who were severely food insecure dying 9 years younger than their food-secure counterparts.]]> 2020-02-24 02:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274748 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274763 2020-02-24 02:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449274763 Ghana erinmain_ https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449276457 https://www.devex.com/news/how-can-data-build-a-truer-picture-of-the-gender-gap-in-food-insecurity-964

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Venesuala Food Crisis



]]> 2020-02-24 03:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449276868 Vegetables Rot in Food Markets across Zimbabwe While Half the Population Faces Food Insecurity kee00092 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277269 Nearly half of Zimbabwe's population -- some 8 million people -- face food insecurity. Yet in food and vegetable markets across the country wastage is high as piles of once-nutritious vegetables rot.

]]> 2020-02-24 03:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277269 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277295 2020-02-24 03:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277295 Poor Nutrition and Agricultural Decline in Fiji has Caused Food Insecurity https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277396 Consumption of cheap, imported food in Fiji is increasing rapidly, while consumption of fresh, traditional food has decreased. As agriculture is a key sector of the economy in Fiji, this has caused a dramatic decline in income. The increase in consumption of fast foods has also decreased the percentage of healthy people.]]> 2020-02-24 03:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277396 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277491 2020-02-24 03:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449277491 Locust Storm destroying farmlands dun0066 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449278016 2020-02-24 03:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449278016 Close up of a locust dun0066 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449278323 2020-02-24 03:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449278323 Why in a cheap food paradise, some Singaporeans are still going hungry kee00092 https://padlet.com/juliahenvogel/currentevents/wish/449278828 A cleaner unable to work, a family with a 4-room flat, a single dad in debt – those experiencing food insecurity are more diverse than you think. Here’s what they’re going through, in the first of a 2-part special report. Rice, hot water and salt to taste. Shanger Pannerchelvam remembers a time when these were the only ingredients his family could afford for dinner. He was only 12 years old. 
His mother had to stop work as a cleaner at a condominium when artery disease affected her legs. One year later, his father fell into clinical depression and left his fast-food job. Just like that, the family had no breadwinner.



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