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A farmer carries wheat after harvesting it on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on April 25, 2026.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)
April 27, 2026, 2:13 pm
Iran war fertilizer squeeze could spell trouble for next year’s grain harvests
Nitrogen-based fertilizers must be applied each season; but with prices of staple crops low, farmers lack the revenue to absorb the expense caused by closure of Strait of Hormuz
By Gus Trompiz and Naveen Thukral
Syrian children play soccer near their tented homes at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
November 21, 2022, 8:16 pm
UN to provide $5.4 billion in food aid to crisis-hit Lebanon
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says funds will be ‘shared equally’ by Lebanese citizens and the two million Syrian refugees living there
By AFP
Farmers harvest with their combines in a wheat field near the village Tbilisskaya, Russia, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vitaly Timkiv, File)
March 10, 2022, 5:07 pm
After pandemic, Ukraine war becomes latest threat to global food security
While Russia’s invasion of its neighbor has yet to cause disruptions to wheat supplies around the world, prices have surged 55% since a week before onset of conflict
By JULHAS ALAM
Steve Goode, far left, is biking across America to raise awareness about hunger by visiting Jewish delis. (Courtesy Goode/ via JTA)
June 19, 2021, 3:38 am
Biker takes his hog on ‘Great American Deli Schlep’ to raise hunger awareness
Motorcyclist Steve Goode is on a 75-day cross-country trek in which he’s partnered with the nonprofit Mazon to hit up 42 Jewish delis and spread knowledge about food insecurity
By Gabe Friedman
A screenshot of a virtual Seder for US lawmakers hosted by MAZON, a Jewish hunger relief advocacy group, March 18, 2021. (MAZON)
March 19, 2021, 10:41 pm
Record 33 US lawmakers from both parties join seder focused on hunger issues
MAZON’s annual Passover event, held virtually this year due to the pandemic, draws Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives and Senate
By JTA
Illustrative: Volunteer Malka Rodrig unpacks meals at a kosher food drive-thru distribution site, July 29, 2020, at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation building in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
January 24, 2021, 4:20 am
US Jewish philanthropists give more during pandemic but struggle with allocation
Donors must decide whether to direct resources to arts and culture while hunger and poverty persist, with the health crisis exacerbating an already dire situation for both causes
By Shira Hanau
A Tanzanian truck driver reacts as he is tested for the coronavirus on the Kenya side of the Namanga border crossing with Tanzania, June 1, 2020. (Brian Inganga/AP)
July 13, 2020, 6:35 pm
UN: Coronavirus pandemic could push tens of millions into chronic hunger
Report on food security finds virus increasing ‘vulnerabilities and inadequacies’ of systems, threatens to add up to 132 million people in 2020 to those considered undernourished
By Frances D'Emilio
A shadow of a Nepalese farmer falls on a heap of grains as he separates it from chaff and dust after a harvest in Chunnikhel, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. According to the World Bank, agriculture is the main source of food, income, and employment for the majority in Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
August 8, 2019, 3:55 pm
New UN climate report foresees hungry future that can be avoided
With just 0.5°C warming, which could happen in 10-30 years, risk of unstable food supplies, wildfire damage, water shortages in dry areas ‘projected to be high’
By Seth Borenstein
Students at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in Tel Aviv producing spirulina. (Courtesy - JustSpirulina.org )
May 20, 2019, 5:30 am
A Tel Aviv high school program is helping to feed the world, with spirulina
Experts from Congo visit Gymnasium Herzliya to learn from students how to produce the algae, a malnutrition-fighting wonder-food
By ToI Staff
Lior Vaknin
November 17, 2017, 4:07 pm
Lior Vaknin
Support Israel by ending hunger in America
The best possible ‘hasbara’ to create Israel’s good name is when Jews and Israelis do good for the world
Dror Tamir offers one of Steak TzarTzar's edible grasshoppers to potential tasters. The company was one of the Israeli start-ups at FoodTech Nation, December 15, 2015 (Courtesy)
July 8, 2015, 4:56 pm
Bugs could be answer to food crisis, Israeli start-up says
Israeli firm aims to be the first to farm edible insects, using high-tech methods; protein source to be marketed in the West
By Luke Tress
Nahum Kovalski
January 11, 2015, 8:07 pm
Nahum Kovalski
In movies about the end of the world, where are people running?
There’s really no need to try and escape the future; things are probably going to work out just fine.
E. Rubrum (Photo credit: Tami Kis Papo, University of Haifa)
May 12, 2014, 6:31 pm
Dead Sea salt-loving fungus may help feed the world
An organism that thrives in a super-saline environment has properties scientists believe can be used to grow crops in brackish water
By David Shamah
Chef Eyal Shani (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
December 3, 2013, 7:01 pm
Master chef to play sous chef for charity
Eyal Shani will get a lesson on kugel-cooking from an Israeli grandma, with proceeds going to a Tel Aviv nonprofit
By Debra Kamin
Illustrative: A wheat field in southern Israel (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
August 29, 2013, 5:03 pm
‘Hibernating’ crops may be science’s cure for drought
An accidental discovery could let plants survive even in absence of water
By David Shamah
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