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821 Million People are Hungry Worldwide

Using conservation agriculture practices, a smallholder farmer from Swaziland’s eastern Lubombo District, can grow maize without the need for fertilizer © Mujahid Safodien/IRIN

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Educating the World on Ending Hunger for over 40 Years

Thai farmers harvest rice near Ta Pra Mok, Thailand. Rice is the staple food for more than half the world’s population including 640 million people living in Asia. © International Rice Research Institute

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Increased Food Insecurity can be Traced to Conflicts

A Yemeni drags a food sack away from a truck that was allegedly destroyed by an airstrike of the Saudi-led coalition targeting a wheat convoy. Photo: Abdul-Rahman Hwais/EPA

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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

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Global

World Food Day 2020

October 16, 2020 by FAO FAO

Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. The COVID-19 global health crisis has been a time to reflect on things we truly cherish and our most basic needs. These uncertain times have made many ...

United States

SNAP benefit increase takes effect

October 13, 2020 by USDA Food and Nutrition Service Morning Ag Clips

The previously announced 5.3% cost of living increase to the maximum benefit amounts for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) took effect Oct. 1st, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminded. As a result, SNAP households will ...

Africa

New Assessment Finds that 1.6 million Households are Food Insecure in Liberia

October 13, 2020 by George Harris Liberian Daily Observer

A recent assessment of Liberia’s food security status, dubbed “Liberia Food Security Assessment,” finds that 1.6 million households in the country go to bed without any meal in a day. Three percent of the 1.3 million households, according to th...

Global

World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2020 by The Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use ...

United States

Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers

September 29, 2020 by Christianna Silva NPR

With COVID-19 continuing to spread, and millions of Americans still out of work, one of the nation's most urgent problems has only grown worse: hunger....

September 26, 2020

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Preventing Famine - Interview with WFP Deputy Chief, Valerie Guarnieri

by UN News United Nations News

In this important interview, the Deputy Chief for the U.N. World Food Programme, Valerie Guarnieri, warns of the ramifications of the CoVid-19 pandemic, climate change, and the need for political will by states and private contributions to prevent fa...

September 24, 2020

Global

Conflict Creates Hunger

by Simona Beltrami World Food Programme

In Celebration of World Peace Day on 21 September, David Beasley, World Food Programme's Executive Director stated that "We cannot end hunger until we end conflict"....

United States

Food insecurity, demand on Syracuse University pantries rise due to pandemic’s financial tolls

September 8, 2020 by Maggie Hicks The Daily Orange

Now that in-person instruction has resumed at Syracuse University, Syeisha Byrd expects the number of students who access on-campus food pantries to increase. The South Campus food pantry served 158 students in April, a spike that decreased to 35 ...

U.S. Hunger Pictures

Hunger in America; A Photographic Journey through America

September 3, 2020 by Brenda Ann Kenneally, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Tim Arango, Photos by Amy Kellner and Rory Walsh New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine has put together a photographic journey visiting families affected by hunger during this Coronavirus Pandemic....

United States

Building a Black Food Sovereignty Movement in Baltimore

August 25, 2020 by Katie Howell Food Tank

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, the Black Yield Institute is a Pan-African power institution working toward Black land and food sovereignty. With self-determination as a guiding principle, Black Yield Institute works to bring together Black institution...