food aid

US Supreme Court pauses judge’s order requiring Trump to fully fund food aid

[WASHINGTON] The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold for now about US$4 billion needed to fully fund a food aid programme for 42 million low-income A...

Volunteers load donated food items into a resident's vehicle during a food bank distribution at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, Nov 1, 2025.

Millions of Americans to get reduced food aid during shutdown: Trump administration

[WASHINGTON] The White House will send only partial payments to 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps to buy groceries, as the government shutdown crippling public services nears record length,...

Students rest while receiving treatments for food poisoning after eating government-sponsored free school meals, at Cililin regional hospital in Bandung.

Indonesian president defends free meals programme after 6,000 suffer food poisoning

Prabowo says “the deviation, the deficiency, or error represents 0.00017%”

A man carries a bag of food as displaced Palestinians raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

For Gaza students, big ambitions replaced by desperate search for food

[GAZA] Student Maha Ali was determined to become a journalist one day and report on events in Gaza. Now she and other students have just one ambition: finding food as hunger ravages the Palestinian en...

Ron Reese (left), senior vice-president of global communications and corporate affairs at Las Vegas Sands, and one of Food Bank Singapore's co-founders Nichol Ng.
TAKING HEART

Food Bank Singapore joins MBS, Las Vegas Sands programme to enhance community impact

It aims to expand its Bank Card Programme, which simplifies the food distribution process

Car groups attend the Heart On Wheels initiative to donate food items, which will benefit lower-income households.
TAKING HEART

Food From The Heart rallies automotive community for food drive

It partners Wearnes Automotive to collect more than 33,000 food items in this year’s edition of Heart On Wheels

Britain's King Charles visits FareShare Didcot to launch the Coronation Food Project on his birthday. “To mark my 75th birthday in this Coronation year, I could ask for no greater gift than that the Coronation Food Project creates a lasting legacy to help others – and help the planet,” he said.

King Charles celebrates 75th birthday by launching new food project

Britain’s King Charles celebrated his 75th birthday on Tuesday (Nov 14) and used the occasion to kickstart a new scheme to tackle food poverty and help cut the millions of tonnes of discarded food at ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres inspects aid for Palestinians, as officials wait to deliver aid to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

First aid delivery due in Gaza in 'the next day or so': UN

The first aid delivery into the besieged Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt should take place “in the next day or so”, the United Nations said Friday.

Staff members unload aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip from an Emirates cargo plane on the tarmac of Egypt's el-Arish airport in the north Sinai Peninsula.  US President Joe Biden struck a deal with Egypt and Israel to allow relief in.

Besieged Palestinians await aid trucks as Israel pounds Gaza

Palestinians in war-torn Gaza on Thursday (Oct 19) eagerly awaited aid trucks promised in a deal struck by US President Joe Biden with Egypt and Israel, as the army struck more Hamas targets.

Farmers and consumers are increasingly struggling to cope with climate change’s severe droughts and sudden floods.
THE BOTTOM LINE

To tackle food insecurity, look beyond agriculture to peacebuilding and preventing war

THOSE who fret about energy shortages and inflation should also focus on the security of food supplies.