Food security

Groceries for entry: How a night of music with local artistes fed some 280 families in Singapore

Chief executive of food charity Food From The Heart Robin Lee receiving food items on stage at Beatback, representing the donations made by concertgoers on June 28.

World food prices ease for second month in June, UN’s FAO says

Dairy prices declined 1.5 per cent, pressured by increased supply.

Northern Nigeria hunger reaches worst levels in nearly a decade, WFP says

FILE PHOTO: Zainab Abubakar eats cooked food with her children at Gubio IDP camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Abraham Achirga/File Photo

World Bank approves $1.4b emergency financing for Bangladesh

The World Bank package comprises two projects aimed at helping the country manage external shocks and maintain economic stability.

High-nutrition S’pore tomatoes and fish could soon be on the menu on flights, in schools, for NSmen

Some possible recipes are chicken rice using TLL’s Temasek Rice, tomato and bocconcici salad and ikan asam pedas using the jade perch.

Pope Leo decries leaders who ‘feed’ wars while millions go hungry

Pope Leo urged governments to increase their spending and not subject food aid to limits based on geopolitical concerns during his visit to the Rome headquarters of the World Food Programme on June 22.

Ebola patients flee treatment centres in Congo for food as hunger crisis deepens

The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected almost 900 people, killing more than a quarter of them.

Famine risk rises in 13 ‘hunger hot spots’, UN warns

FILE PHOTO: Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City, August 28, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo

Arsenic in the water: Toxic ‘time bomb’ threatens Mekong river basin

Researchers and activists attribute pollution at the Mekong river to illegal mines in Myanmar.

India eyes biofertilisers after Middle East war stokes supply fears

Girls sprinkle fertiliser in a corn farm in Nashik, India, in a photo taken July 28, 2025.

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