The July 2026 report found child malnutrition in Gaza has fallen largely because of humanitarian aid assistance.

Famine is a severe, deadly hunger crisis—but it’s predictable, and preventable. Conflict, climate shocks like drought, rising food prices, and a lack of aid funding drive famine. Early action, cash ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Famine is "imminent" in northern Gaza, where around 300,000 people still remain, and is at risk of happening any time between now and May, according to a new report by experts who ...

WASHINGTON — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in "full-blown famine" after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on ...

the persistence of famine has its origins mainly in unfair policies, a food system held in an iron grip by powerful agribusinesses preoccupied with capitalist interests.

A camp for internally displaced people in Ethiopia at the height of the 2020-2022 war in Tigray in the country’s north. J. Countess/Getty Images Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated ...