![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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Africa
WHO Reports 43,000 excess deaths in 2022 due to Drought
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the results of a retrospective study commissioned by both their WHO-Somalia office and Unicef's Somalia office. The study, conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Imperial C...
Conflict and Famine
Black Sea Grain Initiative, to Expire 18 March 2023, in Peril
The Black Sea Initiative, the U.N. brokered agreement to export Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea ports is due to expire on Saturday the 18th of March, 2023. As of 14 March, there was a proposal by the Russians, to shorten the extension from 120 da...
Africa
"Love and Liberation" Captures Voices of Local Aid Workers in Famine Zone
Lauren Carruth's important 2021 book, Love and Liberation - Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press) fills a gap in the literature about aid programs by listening to th...
famine
The Gap in Funding for Programs to Stop Hunger
The nonprofit, Action Against Hunger, February 22, 2023 released their global report "2023 Hunger Funding Gap Report -- What's Needed to Stop the Global Hunger Crisis." It reports that hunger is higher today than any time in recent decades, and th...
Americas
U.S. Anti-Hunger Efforts Reflected by Congressional Hunger Center
On February 22, the Congressional Hunger Center hosted a gathering of 50 staff and Hunger Fellows to look at their achievements over the decades in addressing hunger in the United States. A key topic was success in promoting local legislation to ...
Food Systems
Hunger is Inevitable Result of Massive Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
The double impact of two strong and close earthquakes in southwest Turkey and northern Syria has paralyzed infrastructure and food systems. The earthquakes affected millions of people; hunger due to lack of access to food is inevitable, worse, th...
Agriculture & Nutrition
USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals
The Washington Post recently reported that the USDA has announced new, more stringent, national nutrition standards for its school feeding program. This program reaches 30 million students at 100,000 schools nationwide. The new standar...
Africa
US Ambassador to the UN warns of famine in Somalia
Linda Thomas Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, gave a speech on January 29th in Mogadishu announcing $41 million for famine prevention in Somalia and urged other nations to join in assisting Somalia fight famine....
Conflict and Famine
Hunger Hotspots; Lebanon
In a food security analysis, it is projected that 2.26 million people will suffer from acute levels of food insecurity in Lebanon this coming Spring (2023). The continuation of the food insecurity is due to the influx of Syrian refugees, a deterior...
Agriculture & Nutrition
Humanitarian agencies advocate for simplified treatment of severe malnutrition
Thirteen aid agencies have signed a letter to Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), advocating a simplified treatment for wasting (severe acute malnutrition). These agencies p...
Asia
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Afghanistan faces greater hunger this winter
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Panellists on IWMI dialogue discuss how Pakistan can achieve food, water and food security
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Opinion
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What War in Ukraine means for World Food Supply by Michael J. Puma and Megan Konar
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Chef Jose Andres on Ukrainian Refugee Food Situation by Andrea Salcedo
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SAHEL Will Need Help as Famine is Coming by William Lambers
Global
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Black Sea Grain Initiative, to Expire 18 March 2023, in Peril
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Ending famine
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Agriculture & Nutrition
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USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals
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Humanitarian agencies advocate for simplified treatment of severe malnutrition
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