Food security is an issue we can no longer ignore | Letters
<strong>Letters: </strong>Local community food-growing could be best line of defence, writes <strong>Dan Farag</strong>, while <strong>David E Alexander</strong> says the government must be more open about its emergency planning, and <strong>Antony So</strong> says we need to look beyond stockpiling food
"And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."
Global activity summary (24h)
In the last 24 hours, 13 seismic events have been recorded, including a magnitude 6.0 earthquake north of Caluula, Somalia, and another of magnitude 4.9 near Houma, Tonga. Additionally, there have been 72 disaster-related events, notably multiple forest fires in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, and Namibia, which have been active since mid-August. In the realm of conflicts, 4 events have been documented, although details have not been specified. The passages in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 invite the reader to discern.
Last 24 hours — Famine
No other famine events recorded in the last 24 hours.