![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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United States
Michigan farm communities raise $7.3 million for world hunger
Foods Resource Bank is celebrating the key role Michigan farmers and their communities play in growing lasting solutions to hunger. To date, Michigan “Growing Projects” have raised $7.3 million to help farmers and families in developing countries...
United States
Why hunger is still a problem in America (video)
CBS News provides an update to a 1968 video showing hunger and malnutrition in the United States....
United States
Hunger in Philly: ‘It’s a pain in my belly’
In North Philadelphia and nearby communities, hunger is too easy to find. Hunger fighters are trying, in ways old and new, to beat back an untiring scourge....
Agriculture & Nutrition
With bees on the brink, World Bee Day seeks to raise awareness
Organizations across the globe on Sunday marked the first-ever World Bee Day launched by the UN to raise awareness about the fate of pollinators. Over the past decade, bees and other pollinators have witnessed a steady decline, with experts blaming ...
Agriculture & Nutrition
Save the bees! Lawmakers join the battle to save pollinators
A pair of Michigan lawmakers introduced bills last week that aim to protect bees and other pollinators that are crucial to Michigan's agriculture industry. (May 20 is #WorldBeeDay.)...
United States
What Does Ugly Produce’s Newfound Popularity Mean for Food Banks?
Food banks rely on imperfect fruits and vegetables to feed those in need, but what happens when more for-profit companies want to cash in on ugly produce?...
Asia
Video: Tajikistan Faces Epidemic Of Childhood Malnutrition
A recent UN report finds that Tajikistan has the highest rate of malnutrition in the former Soviet states. One in four Tajik children suffers from stunted growth resulting from an inadequate diet....
United States
Snack Sacks stave hunger for Texas students
Business groups, churches and community members have joined together in Cleburne, Texas to provide weekly "snack sacks" to children who might otherwise go hungry on weekends and outside of school hours....
United States
‘It’s tragic’: Students go hungry in Northern Virginia
Public school students in Northern Virginia's Fairfax and Loudon counties rely on in-school food pantries....
United States
State survey shows hunger, homelessness a common problem at public colleges
Massachusetts’s commissioner of higher education on Friday introduced the “sobering” results of a first-of-its-kind survey that found widespread hunger and homelessness across the state’s public college campuses. According to the Wisconsin HO...
United States
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Michigan farm communities raise $7.3 million for world hunger
by Scott O’Connell -
Why hunger is still a problem in America (video)
by Scott O’Connell -
Hunger in Philly: ‘It’s a pain in my belly’ by Alfred Lubrano
Africa
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Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
by Karen McVeigh -
‘I can go days without eating’: Hunger rises in South Sudan
by Sam Mednick -
Wasted labour: Kenyan Farmers lost over Sh150 billion
by Dominic Omondi
Asia
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Video: Tajikistan Faces Epidemic Of Childhood Malnutrition
by Dominic Omondi -
U.N. food agency chief says peace deal would help ordinary North Koreans
by Associated Press -
Only a cohesive action plan can tackle the menacing epidemic of malnutrition and food insecurity in Pakistan
by Associated Press
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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Harnessing Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Diets
by Sir John Beddington -
Global Food Security: A Primer
by Eric Schewe -
Researcher exposes the reality of food insecurity in New Zealand
by Eric Schewe
Book Reviews
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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
by Peter Temin -
‘How to Feed the World’ offers practical, positive solutions to food insecurity
by Jessica Eise and Ken Foster -
26 Films Every Food Activist Must Watch
by Danielle Nierenberg and Katie Work
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