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Global Hunger Expert Explains the Basics
Video: Global Hunger Basics
Fight hunger with knowledge. In this short video, World Hunger Education Service’s Steve Hansch explains global hunger, discusses a few causes, and tells you how to get involved in humanitarian work.
Explore the Basics: Global Hunger
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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
Nourishing the Future
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Child Hunger Facts
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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Global Hunger in the News
Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
Q&A: The World Bank’s pivot to fragile states
The World Bank is taking steps to move earlier into conflict-affected and fragile countries with more funding, more staff, and a mandate to focus on prevention, according to the institution’s fragility, conflict, and violence director....
March 15 is International School Meals Day
Since its launch in 2013, it has brought together teachers and students, policy makers, school cooks, chefs, food and nutrition professionals, schools and communities, charities, businesses and health professionals from around the world to talk about the importance of school meals and its impact on ...
6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger
Investing in women and girls will play a huge role in ending global hunger. Get to know why they’re at the forefront of the development agenda and how everything from goats to the promise of a school meal are being used to maximize their potential to change the world....
Rural Women Are Essential to the Struggle Against Hunger
Rural women make up more than a quarter of the world’s population and 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force, according to UN Women....
The mother is the last to eat in developing countries
More than 120 million women in developing countries are underweight. Given that women are typically in charge of their household's food production, experts say this female-hunger is due to gender inequality. #IWD...
Bill And Melinda Gates Pledge $170 Million To Women’s Economic Empowerment
“When money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.”...
VIDEO: Four Famines-Fragility, Resilience, and the Role of International Development
More than 20 million people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are facing famine conditions and possible starvation. It has been called the largest humanitarian crisis the world has seen in decades. Watch to learn more....
‘Price of conflict is too high’: hunger at crisis levels in eight countries
War driving up acute food insecurity on a vast scale, report finds, with Yemen, South Sudan and Syria worst affected...
First 1,000 days of child’s life are the most important
At last year's World Economic Forum, young children's health was a part of the agenda, because the first 1000 days are most important to children's development and our collective economic success. This article, part of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, explains why. What’s the most i...
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?
This opinion editorial looks at how we can feed a growing world. Even though the global population in 2050 will be just 25% higher than it is now, typical projections claim that farmers will have to boost food output by 50 to 100%....
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