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Conflict, rising food prices and plummeting incomes in Yemen are forcing people to resort to desperate measures to stave off hunger. One family married off their three-year-old child to buy food and shelter.

Over a decade since Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people, another famine is looming in East Africa. Despite various warnings and alarms over the past two years, we are once again responding too late and with too little to avert the crisis. The humanitarian system must evolve in order to enable and fully fund anticipatory action.

This paper describes how agricultural warrantage works in Burkina Faso and analyses it's economic viability in the North-Central region based on the storage of beans, sorghum, millet and maize.

Oxfam spokesperson Carlos Zarco said:

August has been the bloodiest month this year for civilians in Yemen.

Aid money the G8 has promised but won’t deliver could save more than 3 million lives, Oxfam said today as leaders gathered for the summit in L’Aquila, Italy.

New figures released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) show that the number of hungry people has risen for the third year in a row, mainly as a result of conflict and the climate crisis. However, despite the spiralling hunger and two global food price crises in a little over ten years, hunger has fallen off the political agenda.

Despite promises, nearly three-quarters of African governments reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.

Widespread hunger and chronic malnutrition have taken hold in Yemen. A protracted political stalemate over much of the past six months has left the government in paralysis, prompti

Oxfam is concerned that the progress in fighting hunger is slowing down. We must not lose sight of the fact that in 2015 there are still 795 million people not getting enough to eat in a world of plenty. This is unjust and inexcusable.