A recent report reveals that hundreds of households living across the Israeli-occupied lands face food insecurity.

The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, WFP says.

The number of people displaced worldwide passed a record 89 million last year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says, warning that the intensification of a global food security crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict could further increase that number.

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Iran's envoy to the United Nations (UN) says the Islamic Republic supports the world body's efforts to address global food insecurity amid the acute hunger crisis gripping the world. 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of a “global food shortage” in the coming months due to the conflict in Ukraine.

World Bank has warned of global food insecurity amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The UN says the first step towards remedying food insecurity in Afghanistan is to salvage the Afghan economy from total collapse.

The World Health Organization warns that 75 percent of Yemeni children suffer from acute malnutrition amid a bloody Saudi-led war.

The UN says acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as a result of price hikes over conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.