Global Food Crisis
A voucher program helps West Africans hold off hunger during a steep rise in food prices. Lane Hartill reports.
Food Crisis Squeezes Afghan Families
What would you do to make sure your child was getting enough to eat? For the people of Afghanistan, options are diminishing. Read more >>
Drought Brings Hunger to Kenya
"Yesterday we ate, but today we don't have food," says Virginia Nzyoka, a mother of five who also cares for four orphaned relatives in central Kenya.
Virginia is far from alone. For thousands of Kenyans, extended drought has left them with little or nothing to eat. The global financial crisis is compounding the problem. Available work is scarce, and any money earned must stretch even further to purchase today's expensive food items. Read more >>
Continuing Food Crisis Plagues World's Poorest
Though food and fuel prices have fallen, the global food crisis is not yet over. We are now in an environment of price volatility and uncertainty. Read more >>
Lettuce: The Green Gold of Niger
In the damp depression below their village, Issa and Habibou are busy bucking the world's financial meltdown.
It has found its way into their lives, that's for sure. Prices have doubled, even in this forgotten corner of Niger. But at their feet, the solution is sprouting. It's lowly lettuce, but they might as well be growing greenbacks. Here, in one of the poorest corners of one of the poorest countries in West Africa, it's the green equivalent of gold. Read more >>
No 'Staff of Life' to Lean On
Because it imports most of its food, the Middle East is especially vulnerable to changes in the food market. Middle Eastern countries with little access to oil wealth are feeling the pinch, and have seen the price of staple foods like bread and cooking oil skyrocket. Learn more >>
