News stories by Paul Virgo, page 4

Haiti's misery after last month's earthquake will be compounded by a food catastrophe if the international community continues to ignore the country's agricultural needs, the United Nations has warned.

The world's major religions might disagree on theology and matters like the foods we ought to eat and the days we should rest on, but when it comes to fighting hunger, they see eye to eye.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was way off the mark when he wrote the famous line 'what does not destroy me, makes me stronger' - at least when it comes to hunger.

The world's hungry have good reason to look to the new year with trepidation given the experience of the 12 months that preceded it.

An animal 'black death' that has devastated livestock around the world for thousands of years, causing famine and untold human misery, is about to be permanently consigned to the history books.

Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is les than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years.

Climate change has given vegetarians a big, new stick to bash meat-eating with, albeit one they would have gladly done without.

‘Angry’ is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.

There are two main ways the flop of this week’s United Nations World Food Security Summit in Rome - which has been snubbed by the world’s top leaders, has failed to deliver binding aid commitments, or to set a target date for the eradication of hunger - is being read.

Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.