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Okay, city boys, start planting, raising fish

Good idea. A city boy planting rice in his living room would take a hundred days to harvest.

Famine and starvation to come from Putin’s war

The crises will grow worse and we can expect hardship ahead with more belt-tightening

North Koreans, already hungry, now short of cooking oil

North Korea needs external food aid to meet its basic needs, according to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Philippines approves commercial use of genetically engineered rice

Golden Rice will be initially deployed in areas with high prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency by the third quarter of 2022

Pope Francis to UN chief: World hunger ‘a crime that violates...

In a July 26 message to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the pope called for a “new mindset” in the battle against malnutrition

Investing in nutrition can eradicate ‘silent pandemic’ affecting Filipinos – World...

A World Bank study says about 30 percent of Filipino children under 5 years of age are stunted

Pope Francis warns of global food insecurity, calls for support for...

Pope Francis assured the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization of Church support in fighting hunger and its causes

Picking wild edibles gave villagers options during India’s COVID-19 lockdown

Church-run group taught villagers how to make a living from the sustainable exploitation of ‘non-timber forest products’

Caritas Philippines backs government’s zero hunger program

Caritas Philippines' programs include integrated and organic farming, community learning and earning farms, and climate change adaptation

Caritas Philippines backs calls to pass laws to address incidents of...

"We already have a lot of laws on hunger, but the problem is the synergy," said Father Tony Labiao of Caritas Philippines

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