https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher

#humanitarian #crisis in #Sudan continues to play out with 100s of thousand dead and 10s of millions displaced.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #drought #heatwave #migration #adaptation #water #food #land #hunger #starvation

https://unctad.org/publication/strait-hormuz-disruptions-implications-global-trade-and-development

What is at stake in the future of the #Hormuz strait.

#war #iran #US #israel #oil #gas #fertilizer #urea #sulfur #food #agriculture #cooking #jobs #employment #remittances #hunger #starvation #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

Today's poem:

The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610*
- by Henry Hart

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/811954433158184960/the-starving-time-jamestown-1610?source=share

#jamestown #poetry #HenryHart #starvation #cannibalism

End #Toxic #Greed

Our global #food system is broken; #CorporateGreed is to blame

Families, communities, local farmers face devastating impacts of #ClimateChange from extreme weather to higher food costs; handful of #billionaires running #BigAg profit

They expand cruel, #polluting factory farms, #poison #waterways, eat up forests

Politicians let corporate destroyers & billionaires off the hook

Time to choose people over #profit

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-big-meat-and-dairy/?utm_source=mastodon_fediverse

#PeopleNotProfits #starvation

Opinion
Eid under siege: Little to celebrate in Gaza as Israel tightens chokehold

As attention shifts to the Iran war, tighter restrictions on Gaza are driving shortages, price hikes and growing suffering, turning a time of celebration into one of anxiety for millions.

By Amal Abu Seif

Palestinian writer and researcher from Gaza.

While the world’s attention is fixed on the Iran war, Israel has quietly tightened its chokehold on Gaza, further restricting the flow of goods and aid. As Eid al-Fitr begins, a time meant to be marked by joy and family gatherings, millions in Gaza are struggling under deepening shortages and rising hardship. What should be a moment of celebration has instead become one of anxiety, as the worsening crisis strips Eid of even its simplest pleasures.
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Eid al-Fitr, once a symbol of joy, has become a reminder of a lost celebration, but also a call for the international community to take meaningful action: to ensure the flow of humanitarian aid, protect civilians from exploitation and prevent human suffering from being turned into an opportunity for profit.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/20/eid-under-siege-little-to-celebrate-in-gaza-as-israel-tightens-chokehold

#gaza #palestine #Eid #israel #genocide #starvation

There is perhaps no experience so profound as being involved in another human's final moments in this life.

And nothing so surreal as sitting with someone in #hospice while reading news about #war in #Iran and #Gaza, and humanitarian crises of #starvation, #violence, and pilferage perpetuated by the #rich and those in #power.

#Humanity is unspeakably beautiful and ineffably cruel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/19/visual-guide-oil-and-gas-site-attacks-middle-east

In a decent world, weaning away from #oil #gas while protecting the #poor would have been the just energy transition. Now we have the worst kind of world. Sudden destruction of #oil #gas infrastructure and NO protection for the poor. Rock and hard place for the poor. Die of #climatechange or from #starvation due to fertilizer shortage.