Food security

World Food Programme halves food assistance to West Bank due to funding shortages

Despite now reducing the service, the WFP shared that food needs have doubled since 2023 and an estimated 900,000 people are experiencing food insecurity in the Palestinian territory.

Palestinians receive food aid donated for refugees from the European Union and the World Food Programme (WFP) and distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on July 9, 2010.
YOUTH VOLUNTEERS pack boxes with food for families in need. ‘Civil society does extraordinary work, but a modern state cannot rely on charity alone,’ says researcher Prof. Aron M. Troen.

Israel is failing to provide food security, leaving thousands of NGOs to fill the gaps - study

Studies show that sometimes between 8 to 15 exposures are required before a new food moves from "strange" to "acceptable"

The man who couldn't watch Israel throw its food away: The story of Leket Israel

The International Space Station (ISS), (Top-L) transits the sun as seen from Shuwaikh industrial district in Kuwait City on June 14, 2026.

El Niño forming in Pacific could become the strongest in 70 years, threatening food supplies


'You can't stop the revolution:’ 5 themes that will shape 2023

The job of Bank of America’s head of Global Thematic Investing Research is to predict the future. He tells the ‘Post’ what he sees.

 Haim Israel, global strategist and head of Global Thematic Investing Research for Bank of America.

North Korean food shortage seems to be worsening, South Korea says

North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests.

 FILE PHOTO: A North Korean boy holds a spade in a corn field in area damaged by floods and typhoons in the Soksa-Ri collective farm in the South Hwanghae province September 29, 2011.

Why is poverty in Israel getting worse? - opinion

If a meaningful plan to address food insecurity is not formulated and implemented, it is guaranteed that we will be having this exact same conversation after the release of the next report.

 YA’ACOV MARGI, the new welfare and social affairs minister: Since its establishment five years ago, the Council for Food Security’s recommendations have not once been presented to the government.

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

 CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

Over half a million Israelis live in food insecurity, but GDP is up - survey

A new survey from Israel's National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) found that food insecurity has decreased, but remains a problem.

4 IN JERUSALEM | MAY 15, 2020RELIGIONHOME ECONOMICSSUPER HAMOSHAVA on Emek Refaim Street: Hopefully things are getting back to normal.

Superfood: Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Captain Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

The answers to a centuries-old mystery may also impact food security for island nations that are highly susceptible to climate change.

 A breadfruit tree in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Nestlé to build $43 million facility in Ukraine

Nestlé will become one of the few major global corporations to invest in Ukraine in 2022.

 Nestlé facility in Copenhagen, Denmark (2009).

Israel's reliance on food imports makes risk of major food insecurity - report

A new Shoresh Institution report highlights dependence on international food imports, high population growth, and decreased focus on agriculture as primary threats to Israel’s food security.

4 IN JERUSALEM | MAY 15, 2020RELIGIONHOME ECONOMICSSUPER HAMOSHAVA on Emek Refaim Street: Hopefully things are getting back to normal.

Newly founded Fungi Protein Association is an international supergroup of fun guys

The Fungi Protein Association will represent the interests of its member companies, including advocating for fungi protein in public policy and conducting consumer research.

 Mush Foods' sustainable protein looking like a great lunch

Israel wastes over 1/3rd of its food every year - Leket

Leket CEO: Incomprehensible a solution exists that would be effective across the board with economic, social, environmental and health benefits, and yet, the government ignores it.

Fresh vegetables are sold at the shuk (market)