![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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A Summer Meals Hero
No Kid Hungry, a national anti-hunger campaign, has chosen Summer Meals supervisor for the Kent School District, Lynne Mayer of Covington, Washington as one of five 2019 Summer Meals Heroes....
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Community Action: With 13% of the county struggling with hunger, how to host a food drive in Utah
One in eight people in Utah County struggles with hunger and one in six children face food insecurity. Community Action Services is holding a back-to-school food drive to help their neighbors in need....
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Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger
A pub in Keynsham, Somerset, UK, has decided to give away 100 free meals a day to hungry children, in an attempt to help poor families during the summer holidays....
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The tools to end childhood hunger
The Piedmont Physic Garden in Union, South Carolina, will be hosting Cooking Matters classes in partnership with Clemson SNAP-Ed from August 27 to October 1. The course aims to help end childhood hunger by giving families the tools needed to make hea...
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WFP Warns of 'Unprecedented' Food Emergency in Burkina Faso
The World Food Program warns that millions of people in Burkina Faso are facing what it calls an unprecedented humanitarian emergency because of growing hunger, instability and displacement....
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Look beyond maize to ensure food security
HIVOS Zambia says a recent study indicates that Zambia’s food system is not delivering enough affordable nutritious food for most of the populace with maize dependency greatly contributing to problems of poverty, malnutrition, vulnerability to drou...
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Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
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United States
The Facts About Food Stamp Fraud
There's too much misinformation about the U.S. government's food stamp scheme. So after some investigation, here are some facts about the benefit, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)....
Africa
Growing Food From Air in Nigeria
A group of farmers in Nigeria is using a technology-based method to grow crops from moisture in the air. The method, known as aeroponics, does not involve soil. Instead, plant roots hang in the air. The roots take in a nutrient so...
Agriculture & Nutrition
We are leaving so much food on farms to just rot in the field
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A Summer Meals Hero
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Community Action: With 13% of the county struggling with hunger, how to host a food drive in Utah
by Dave Smith -
The tools to end childhood hunger
by Aya Nance
Africa
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WFP Warns of ‘Unprecedented’ Food Emergency in Burkina Faso
by Lisa Schlein -
Look beyond maize to ensure food security
by Margaret Chisanga -
Growing Food From Air in Nigeria
by Timothy Obiezu
Asia
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To Survive in a Wetter World, Raise Ducks, Not Chickens
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Why South Korea Is Sending $8 Million In Food Aid To North Korea
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What North Korea’s Markets Could Tell Us About Its Food Security
by Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
Opinion
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Aid groups need a major shake-up to meet the challenges of a fractured world by Simon O'Connell
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In modern Britain, hunger has become normal. That is an outrage by Shaista Aziz
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The Impact of Global Climate Change on World Hunger by William Chutney
Global
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Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger
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Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
by Christopher Flavelle -
UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide
by Alex Russell
Agriculture & Nutrition
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The tools to end childhood hunger
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Look beyond maize to ensure food security
by Margaret Chisanga -
Growing Food From Air in Nigeria
by Timothy Obiezu
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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