David Orme’s photos from the drought in the Sahel region of Africa could not be more timely. Earlier today, we launched our petition to President Obama to stop the cycle of hunger in some of the world’s poorest places, and this is the perfect way to visualize why we need to take action. David Orme,

With an exponentially increasing population across the globe, we are faced with a huge problem: Will we have enough to eat? Unless some radical changes are made globally in agriculture management, we won’t have enough food to go around. With this being said, there is a path forward… A new report released yesterday from Landscapes

UNICEF’s Shantha Bloemen reports from Mauritania, one of eight countries facing a food crisis in the Sahel. This article is reprinted from the Field Notes blog with permission of UNICEF. A malnourished child and his mother in a feeding center in Mauritania. Photo credit: Palitza/ UNICEF There is much talk these days of reaching the

As we continue to follow the devastating famine in the Horn of Africa, we turn our attention to the west of the continent, where 15 million people in parts of the Sahel region are at risk of food insecurity. Still reeling from severe food shortages in 2010, drought-prone parts of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad,