food insecurity

The way Britain produces, manufactures, sells and consumes food is a barrier to healthy eating, hitting the poorest hardest, a group of Peers has said.

A year after Cyclone Idai destroyed crops, ruined lives and left millions in Zimbabwe without food, the country is facing its worst drought in four decades.

Smethwick Church Action Network (CAN) has set up the Smethwick pantry, to be run and used by local people, at Smethwick Library. The project is the latest in the growing Your Local Pantry network nationally, and the third in the Midlands.

Tens of thousands of pastoral farmers who have been driven off their land to make way for commercial cattle ranches are at severe risk of starvation as drought grips southern Angola.