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The next global pandemic may very well be a hunger pandemic as a result of the fallout from coronavirus. While the World Health Organization warns that stringent guidelines need to stay in place to combat the spread of COVID-19, fellow United Nations agency World Food Program (WFP) believes that it will lead to an uptick in global poverty and starvation, and the response to the virus itself may end up killing more people by the end of 2020. Last week, WFP cautioned the UN Security Council that the risk of large-scale famine in much of the developing world was now...

Haiti facing 'major food crisis' Malnutrition is widespread in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world Haiti faces a "major crisis" if the international community does not increase food aid to the country, the UN's food agency has warned. The World Food Programme director for the region, Pedro Medrano, said Haiti required more help to feed its poor. He appealed for $54m (£27m) in new funding to counter food prices which have risen sharply around the world. At least six people were killed in Haiti last month as protests over rising prices turned violent. The prices of wheat,...

I’ve been wanting to lose some weight and I suppose now’s as good a time as any. With an execution by starvation and dehydration date of March 18, 2005 set for disabled Terri Schiavo, a number of activists are planning a hunger strike and I’m going to join them. The act of self-deprivation in the form of a hunger strike is nothing new, but it’s a hazardous stunt to say the least. In 1981, ten Irish Republican activists joined in a hunger strike as a political statement and soon wound up dead. Through the years, countless political prisoners have met...