Food crisis
Protesters hold signs up demanding that journalist Samsuzzaman Shams be freed. Bangladeshi journalist arrested for reporting on rising food prices

Samsuzzaman Shams, a reporter with leading daily Prothom Alo was arrested under the controversial Digital Security Act , after police officials raided his house in the dead of night

Russia-Ukraine grain deal Russia-Ukraine grain deal extended by four months

The deal was set to expire on November 19. Turkey and the UN mediated the grain deal in July following global concern regarding the worsening food crisis, particularly in countries of Asia and Africa

Sri Lanka tea farm UN warns of increasing food insecurity in Sri Lanka

The UN team and non-governmental organizations working jointly on the island nation under the Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) Plan announced the revision and extension of HNP targets on November 8

Political prisoners Egypt Defying global calls, Egypt continues persecution of political activists  

Egyptian authorities have arrested two more lawyers in an apparent attempt to scuttle the nationwide call for protests this Friday. The head of a rights group said that over a 1,000 people have been detained in the last few weeks

Following attacks on Sevastopol, Russia suspends participation in UN-brokered grain deal with Ukraine

Under the deal reached in July through UN and Turkish mediation, Russia had agreed to allow grain exports from three Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea to ease the food crisis faced by countries in Africa and Asia 

A people’s analysis of a world on fire

As popular movements across the world have been warning, we are undergoing a crisis of the capitalist system globally.

WTO agriculture WTO out of agriculture, demands global peasant movement in Geneva

Peasant and fisherfolk activists were among the drivers of civil society mobilizations at the WTO Ministerial Conference, where they called for the withdrawal of the organization from the agricultural sector 

Mapping Faultlines: The real reasons for the global food crisis

In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha explains the reasons behind the global food crisis and inflation

EU sanctions on Russia European Union reaches agreement to ban Russian oil imports 

The sanctions will immediately impact two-thirds of Russian crude oil imports which are transferred via the sea. Following opposition by Hungary, the remaining one-third which is supplied through the Druzhba pipeline is temporarily exempt

Ukraine war food crisis Russia is ready to help alleviate the global food crisis if West lifts sanctions, says President Putin 

The US and its allies have imposed unilateral sanctions on Russia following its attack on Ukraine in February. They have also accused Russia of preventing the export of food grains and fertilizers from Ukraine

World food crisis World food crisis: causes, consequences and solutions

The war is exacerbating the food crisis, but to end it, the United States must first realize no military solution to the conflict in Ukraine will bring about the defeat of Russia it seeks

Russia-Ukraine Conflict Proxy war in Ukraine raises concerns of global food insecurity, underlines need for talks 

While Ukraine refuses to engage in talks, Russian forces scored a major victory in Donbass following the surrender of hundreds of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant earlier this week