![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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Danielle Blair: Why not wasting food is important
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Establishing Food Security: It Takes a Village
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Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment
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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....
United States
Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts
The Center for Biological Diversity and The "Ugly" Fruit and Veg Campaign recently asked the 10 largest U.S. supermarkets how they handle food waste, and gave each store's efforts a letter grade: no store received an A grade....
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Let’s Grow Maine: A plan to end hunger by 2020
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Photographer Matt Black on documenting poverty
For the last four years Black has traveled the country, driving nearly 90,000 miles through 46 states, photographing marginalized communities. He calls his project "The Geography of Poverty." Watch the video to learn more....
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United States
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Danielle Blair: Why not wasting food is important by Bonnie Washuk
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Detroit’s ‘food deserts’ are a burden for many by Slone Terranella
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Establishing Food Security: It Takes a Village by Sandra Baltazar Martinez
Africa
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Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
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Project improves food security in six African nations
by Stephanie Achieng’ & Gilbert Nakweya -
Food distribution in drought-stricken areas improves nutrition in Kenya
by Susan Muhindi
Asia
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Aid Groups Seek Greater Support for Rohingya Refugees Facing Trauma, Hunger
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Indonesia is hungry for a better food policy
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Malnutrition Not Just a Poor Country Problem
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Opinion
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What We Know About Youth – and What We Don’t by Amy Sink Davies, VP or Food Security & Agriculture, RTI International
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Hungry on Campus by Harold O. Levy
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Be Part of the Solution to Senior Hunger and Loneliness by Jane Sandwood
Global
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Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment
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Q&A: The World Bank’s pivot to fragile states
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Agriculture & Nutrition
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TED Talk: Why Bees Are Disappearing
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Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
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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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