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The people most affected by poverty are often missing from the data used to describe it. If the numbers are incomplete, how reliable are the policies built upon them?

Benny Dembitzer witnessed the Ethiopian famine response firsthand. Four decades later, he reflects on what Band Aid changed, what it missed and why hunger persists.

Climate pressure, soil exhaustion, water scarcity and unequal markets are reshaping food production. The future depends on practical choices made with farmers, not for them.

A major report may acknowledge global poverty while relying on familiar assumptions. Benny asks whether respected institutions are diagnosing the system or simply repeating it.

Drought is not only a natural disaster. Its effects are shaped by weak infrastructure, fragile livelihoods and policies that leave farmers without the means to adapt.

Decades after famine shocked the world, hunger remains widespread. Benny asks what the international response has learned and why the same failures keep returning.