![Niger, Tahoua. A skeletal child receives emergency food through a tube at an emergency feeding center in Niger. Malnutrition is a serious problem each year in Niger, the drought and famine brought it to catastrophic proportions. [Date picture taken: 2005/08/08] © Edward Parsons/IRIN](https://www.worldhunger.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/niger_child_cropped_final-1200x448.jpg)
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Climate Change Undermining Global Efforts to Eradicate Hunger
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United Nations, World Bank, and Humanitarian Organizations Launch Innovative Partnership to End Famine
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Africa
Rising obesity in Africa reflects a broken global food system
When I visited Kigali, Rwanda’s capital last week, I noticed an array of new fast food restaurants downtown. This is not an exception — chains such as Burger King, Pizza Hut and KFC are proliferating across Africa. Meanwhile, obesity rates are sk...
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Can This Chef Solve the Problem of School Lunch?
School lunch is a problem that, so far, no one has really solved. Is it possible to cook for hundreds or thousands of kids, with only about $1.25 per head (after labor and equipment costs), following guidelines that mandate exact proportions of prote...
Africa
Extreme Poverty Concentrates in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Middle East
Isolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine
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Africa
[OP-ED] SURPLUS FOOD: A WEAPON AGAINST HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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Global
We have more than enough calories, but what about other nutrients?
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh published "the first study to quantitatively map the flow of energy, protein, fat, essential amino acids and micronutrients from 'field-to-fork' at a global level and identify hotspots where nutrients are ...
Global
World hunger levels rise for third year running: U.N.
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fueled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, jeopardizing a global goal to end the scourge by 2030....
Global
Starvation: a weapon of war that could kill 590,000 children by the end of 2018
Starvation being used as a weapon of war has become the new normal, according to Save the Children. Its analysis shows more than half a million infants in conflict zones could die of malnutrition by the end of the year if they do not receive treatmen...
United States
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Can This Chef Solve the Problem of School Lunch? by Sophie Haigney
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Cuomo: All NY public colleges will have food pantries by end of fall semester by Robert Harding
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Philadelphia Food Scraps to Become Gas to Power Trucks and Buses by Chris Martin
Africa
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Rising obesity in Africa reflects a broken global food system
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Extreme Poverty Concentrates in Sub-Saharan Africa
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[OP-ED] SURPLUS FOOD: A WEAPON AGAINST HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
by Betsy McKay and Gabriele Steinhauser
Asia
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Asia’s food systems are under pressure study shows
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Maintaining Food Security, Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister Focuses on Four Targets
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Drought raises food security fears in Afghanistan
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Opinion
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12 Things We Can Agree On about Global Poverty by Jason Hickel and Charles Kenney
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Poverty to Early Marriages and Early Marriages to Poverty: The Endless Chain in Rural Communities in Cameroon by Nkwain Adeline Yafi
Agriculture & Nutrition
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Aquafarmers on the front lines
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Pest-proof bags and bins slim Tanzania’s ‘lean season’
by Jenny Seifert -
The Very Hot, Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Book Reviews
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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
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‘How to Feed the World’ offers practical, positive solutions to food insecurity
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26 Films Every Food Activist Must Watch
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