How much news coverage is Food Security receiving right now?

As of October 3, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.008% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 15 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Food Security increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is up 33.7% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Food Security?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -3.22, which reads as negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every three hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Food Security

Food Security accounts for 0.008% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of October 3, 2026 (15 matched articles/day). Coverage is up 33.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -3.22 — negative.

Coverage of global food security: famine risk, grain trade, and hunger crises.

Data updated: October 3, 2026 · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.008%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

+33.7%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

-3.22

negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 9.7 anxiety · 5.6 anger · 30.9 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By language

English100.0%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-10-03). Tone split: 73.3% of articles read distinctly negative, 20% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Countries where Food Security coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage +33.7%, reader interest -16.2% — supply and demand are diverging.

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Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Food Security receiving right now?: As of October 3, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.008% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 15 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Food Security increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is up 33.7% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
What is the tone of news coverage about Food Security?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -3.22, which reads as negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
How are these numbers measured?: Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every three hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).