As drought makes harvests uncertain, Kenya’s farmers mull a seed change
Using imported seed, "you are not sure if you will harvest enough to offset the costs" - so local seed is gaining ground, farmers say
EXPERT VIEWS-"Earth's fruits must be available for all" says pope on World Food Day
"Clearly wars and climate change are a cause of hunger, let us then not present hunger as though it were some sort of incurable disease"
Death toll from Somalia bomb attacks tops 300
"We have confirmed 300 people died in the blast. The death toll will still be higher because some people are still missing," - Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of the city's ambulance service
Israel targets fashion industry over underweight models
Israel in 2012 became the first country to pass a law requiring advertisers explicitly to identify pictures with photoshopped people
Greek church bells ring funeral toll over sex change law
Greece's parliament passed a law last week which allows people over 15 to change their gender on official documents
Thousands of new Rohingya refugees flee violence, hunger in Myanmar to Bangladesh
Wading through waste-deep water with children strapped to their sides, the Rohingya had walked through bushes and forded monsoon-swollen streams for days from Myanmar
FACTBOX-Hunger not an "incurable disease", Pope says on World Food Day
Hunger levels have begun to rise for the first time in a decade, the United Nations says
End to "confusion and fear"? Madagascar set to update colonial-era family planning laws
Abortion is illegal in Madagascar, but clandestine terminations are performed regularly
We have a collective responsibility to halve food loss and waste
Wasting food harms our climate, costs the global economy billions of dollars and strains natural resources
Pope implicitly criticises U.S. for leaving Paris climate accord
"We see consequences of climate change every day"