It’s been 50 years since Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values, wrote his essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” arguing that the affluent ought to ...
On March 5, Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture, Patrick O’Donovan, announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration will take place in Kilmallock, Co Limerick. The ceremony is ...
Famine is the most severe form of acute food insecurity. How, and when, is famine declared? And what happens next? Your questions answered. On May 4, 2025, a health worker at a UNICEF-supported ...
The United Nations' latest report on hunger makes for grim reading. On April 24, 2024, the international body released its annual Global Report on Food Crises, showing that 281.6 million people faced ...
Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...
Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...
The world promised “never again.” Yet children are starving in Gaza and Sudan today. At least 132,000 children under five in Gaza are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The famine ...
"Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realise one's full potential as a human being." This line was written by Amartya Sen, the Indian economist and philosopher, to ...
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