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Food security

News, comment and features on food security, food insecurity and food scarcity in the developing world

December 2025

  • A large circular bread loaf with a spiral pattern in its crust

    The alternatives
    ‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution

  • A snow-covered peak

    The age of extinction
    ‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

November 2025

  • Brightly coloured cereal being poured into a

    Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn

  • Composite of a pizza and a yes and no tick

    We know ultra-processed foods are bad for you – but can you spot them? Take our quiz

  • Could Urban Farming Feed the world

    The big idea
    Could urban farming feed the world?

  • The category 5 hurricane has decimated the country's breadbasket of St Elizabeth and neighbouring Manchester and Trelawny, prompting fears of possible food shortages in early 2026

    Jamaican farmers warn of food shortages after destruction of Hurricane Melissa – video

    Video1:22

October 2025

  • Two young African men and a young African woman look at the camera with tentative smiles

    Africa's children
    Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?

    In 2005, the Guardian documented the births of 10 babies as a way to tell the story of millions across the continent. We caught up with three of them, finding hardship – and hope
  • A satellite image shows the wetland lost to a marina development at Çaltılıdere in Turkey

    Green to grey
    Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

    Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
  • A pregnant woman wearing a burqa walks with a small boy between makeshift camps in Gaza

    ‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

    The World Health Organization has warned that more than 40% of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are malnourished. Here, Nour Ziad al-Batsh, who is expecting her third child in March, describes her daily struggle to find food and healthcare

September 2025

  • Flooding in a rural area in Punjab, Pakistan, with a lone man standing outside a flooded building

    Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024

    Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency
  • Miika Ilomäki

    Finland is ready for the next crisis, with stockpiled food and 72-hour kits – Europe should be too

    Miika Ilomäki
    The next pandemic or geopolitical shock could be close at hand. To look after our people, we’re looking after our supply chains, agriculture and fuel reserves, says Miika Ilomäki of Finland’s National Emergency Supply Agency
  • Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system – podcast

    This week, from 2021: From ultra-processed junk to failing supply chains and rocketing food poverty, there are serious problems with the way the UK eats. Will the government ever act?

    By Bee Wilson. Read by Elinor Coleman
    Podcast33:47

August 2025

  • Farm workers harvest asparagus in a field

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: How ‘climateflation’ is pushing food prices ever higher – and changing how we eat

    In today’s newsletter: Extreme heat, droughts and floods are proving disastrous for farmers on the frontline of climate change, and consumers in the supermarket, too
    Newsletter
  • The hands of a queue of people can be seen holding large pans

    ‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza

    Ahmed Kamal Junina
    It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
  • Broccoli heads in a bowl

    The Guardian view on food and farming: climate chaos hits crops hard – and that should worry everyone

    Editorial: Last year’s floods have been followed by heatwaves. Ministers must throw their weight behind resilient, adaptable agriculture

July 2025

  • Woman holds very thin baby

    Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza

    Official and ministers either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault
  • A female worker in Ghana processes harvested cocoa pods.

    Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds

    High cost of staples due to extreme weather could lead to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest

    • Change by degrees
      How to reduce your food footprint: if it’s better for you, it’s better for the planet

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Mining companies are pumping seawater into the driest place on Earth. But has the damage been done?

    • ‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

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