Nigeria’s Cold Chain Gap Leaves Millions Hungry
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria grows more food than almost any other country in Africa, but poor logistics after harvest mean millions…
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Stop Watching Oil. The Real Crisis Is Food and Fertilizer
While much of the world watches oil prices and stock markets, a more serious problem is quietly unfolding. It is…
Hunger and War: Nigeria’s Next Conflict May Not Start With Guns. It Starts With Empty Bowls.
Nigeria is facing one of the most serious humanitarian crises in its modern history. In the country’s northeast, millions of…
Household Hunger Linked to Higher Depression Risk Among Adolescent Girls
Inside a Northern Ghana study on food insecurity and mental health “Go away,” Kosi mumbles. Her classmates inch their chairs…
The African cat that guards the rice
How a working cat can save a season of food At night, when the cooking fires cool and the streets…
Hunger Drives Uganda’s Mothers to Desperate Choices. And It’s Not Just Uganda.
Photographs are taken on the ground in Uganda by Food for Africa News contributors, documenting the true conditions of the…
The New Scramble for Africa’s Commodities. But Who Actually Gets Fed?
For years Africa was discussed as a place of aid and crisis. Today the conversation in trading houses, ministries, and…
Hunger and the Mind: An Overlooked Burden in West Africa
When people speak about hunger in West Africa, they usually mean the physical signs of it. A child who is…
Hunger on the Horizon: How War in Iran Could Empty Plates Across Africa
In the crowded markets of Accra and Nairobi, the first warning of war is not the sound of artillery. It…
Africa Now Carries the World’s Fastest-Growing Hunger Crisis
Across Africa, hunger is no longer a slow moving crisis but a measurable collapse in food security: more than 300…