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.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
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

A new study reveals a vast but fragmented food-aid system, raising questions about the government’s responsibility to ensure food security.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
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

From a leaky trunk to Israel's national food bank: Joseph Gitler on waste, "startup nation poverty," and feeding families after Oct 7.

|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS
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

Forecasters expect the stronger weather event to bring excessive rains to the Americas and hot, dry conditions in Asia, where crop planting is already being disrupted.

|ByREUTERS

Meet the urban project promoting agriculture, carpentry, food rescue

These days, we generally live longer and are still able to live a full life and even to contribute well past official retirement age.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
A PARTICIPANT in Muslala's carpentry course.

World food prices hit 10-year peak in 2021

World food prices have jumped 28% over 2021 for the highest average level since 2011, contributing to the broader surge in inflation as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 crisis.

JANUARY 6, 2022ByREUTERS
A boy holds a cardboard box of food aid received from World Food Programme in Aleppo's Kalasa district, Syria, April 10, 2019

Average household said to throw out NIS 615 worth of food each month

The annual food-waste report highlights the severe need for a food-rescue program.

DECEMBER 27, 2021ByZACHY HENNESSEY
A Leket employee delivers food to the eldery

UN reduces Yemen food rations due to funding shortage

Food rations are being reduced for 8 million people in Yemen, leading to more already hungry and food insecure people joining the ranks of millions who are starving.

DECEMBER 22, 2021ByREUTERS
People crowd to get food rations from a charity kitchen in Sanaa, Yemen July 20, 2020. Picture taken July 20, 2020.

Tens of thousands of Israeli families could have no food on Rosh Hashanah

Some 155,000 Israelis entered the circle of poverty due to the pandemic.

AUGUST 29, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A Leket employee delivers food to the eldery