Johannesburg - The impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho has declared an official food crisis after bad harvests left more than 400 000 people in need of food aid, said a United Nations agency. The ...

An agricultural startup founded by Purdue University alumni is addressing international food insecurity in the Kingdom of Lesotho and rural southern Indiana, with a goal to expand domestically and ...

Lesotho is one of the least developed countries in southern Africa and has a precarious food security balance. Almost all of its main staple food of maize is produced within a single climatic region ...

An estimated 725 000 Basotho – around a third of the country's population – will need humanitarian assistance as a food crisis unfolds in the mountain kingdom. This is the result of two consecutive ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Lesotho has urgent need of international aid to avoid a serious food shortage caused by rising cereals prices since the principal harvest was destroyed by one of the worst ...

Maseru- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of JPY 200 million (approximately US$1.36 million) from the Government of Japan to support the national school ...

A programme designed to feed more than 36,000 learners at 200 schools in Lesotho will now end after abrupt cuts by the US Department of Agriculture. The Lesotho government says it's own food programme ...

Farmers in the Free State are spending half a million rands on security because border protection is a shambles and it’s worse since a food crisis began in Lesotho. The farmers are calling for ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 12 (UPI) -- A report by two U.N. agencies says 410,000 people in Lesotho face food shortages due to the country's most severe drought in 30 years. The report, issued Tuesday by ...

Maseru - Lesotho urgently needs 57 000 tons of food over the coming months to feed 600 000 to 700 000 people facing acute hunger as winter approaches the tiny drought-stricken country, officials said ...

In the distance loom the spectacular snow-capped mountains. But there is only one thing on the minds of the villagers - and that is the looming spectre of hunger and starvation. In good years, the ...