A potent combination of hunger, climate change and man-made conflicts are creating a "perfect storm", the head of the UN's food arm warned Tuesday in a call to action on World Food Day.

'Perfect storm' of hunger, climate change & conflict coming, warns UN

North Korea was set up with backing from the Soviet Union as a socialist state. The Soviet collapse in 1991 crippled the North Korean economy and brought down its centralised food distribution system. Those who survived were forced to forage, barter and invent meals from whatever they found

Fake meat, free markets ease North Koreans' hunger

Balmati Naik died of starvation in Barlabaheli village, Odisha, leaving behind her six-year-old son.

The long aftermath of hunger

India?s failure to actualise the promise of plenty is a developmental defeat, and a betrayal of the vision of its freedom fighters

World Food Day: 35 years on, India still struggles against hunger

The government said widespread hunger 'makes people vulnerable to exploitation, human rights abuses and to criminal and terrorist networks'

Somalia drought: ?110 dead from hunger in past 48 hours

The programme is helping to alleviate chronic undernourishment and it encourages school attendance, but how is it operating around India?

Mid-day meal: 100 million hungry mouths and one scheme

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