food insecurity

Heather House studies full-time through McGill University’s distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books, she is raising her eight children with her husband in Chisasibi, the northernmost community in Quebec that is accessible by road.

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a new report released by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies.

Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impacts on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.

Canada and nearly 200 other countries around the world now have eight years to set aside almost one-third of their land and marine territories for conservation under a landmark new biodiversity deal reached in Montreal on Monday, December 19, 2022.

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre is now jumping into the politics of pasta disinformation. 

Campaigns for food bank donations are a staple of the holiday season, but some Canadian food insecurity researchers say the appeals can be tough to swallow.

In Victoria, the province’s most expensive city, two adults working to support two children would need to make at least $24.29 an hour to afford rent, groceries and other key expenses, according to a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Laurie O'Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as prices in grocery stores rise out of reach.

Persistent overdependence on fossil fuels — globally and at home — is jeopardizing the health of Canadians and people in all corners of the world, researchers warn.

Community groups in Prince Edward Island say they are worried that inflation, rent increases and the damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona are leading to food insecurity among lower-income people.

A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event focused on reaching global development goals that the Gateses' foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Over a fifth of people in Alberta likely struggled to afford food last year, a recent analysis by University of Toronto researchers has shown.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid his respects to victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in Kigali, Rwanda where he is attempting to build consensus with Commonwealth nations to prevent a new humanitarian crisis.

As Ontario's electoral candidates float plans to reduce cost at the tills, food banks and food security experts say their food-focused approach is distracting from the main problem: Poverty and incomes.