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January 14, 2025

Africa

Hunger Notes' New Fact Sheet about Famine

WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine:  https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...

January 14, 2025

Africa

Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow's Latest Book

Book Review:    Roger Thurow’s Against the Grain:  How Farmers Around the Globe are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Health the Planet (2024, Publisher:  Agate Surrey) American journalist, Roger Th...

January 14, 2025

Books & Media Reviews

Film Mischaracterizes Humanitarian Aid Work

[Editor's note:  The following opinion piece was written by career aid worker Amy Leah Potter in response to the recent release of the film "Dirty Angels" which has upset many people in the aid community for its depiction of humanitarian NGOs se...

Starvation monograph cover
December 30, 2024

Conflict and Famine

Resource Highlight: Examining the Decline in Starvation Deaths

How Many People Die of Starvation in Humanitarian Emergencies?, from the Refugee Policy Group think tank, examines...

December 12, 2024

Conflict and Famine

WHES Undertakes Research about Attacks Against Food & Nutrition in Humanitarian Aid

This month, toward the end of 2024, World Hunger Education Service  launched a broad  study about the patterns, trends and extent of violent attacks and threats against aid programs delivering food and nutrition solutions in famines, crises, war zo...

November 4, 2024

Global

Remembering Don Kennedy, Human Biologist

Don Kennedy, who passed away four years ago, was founder of the  unique Human Biology program at Stanford University, where he served as a role model as arguably the most influential teacher of his generation, particularly teaching about intersectio...

November 3, 2024

Agriculture & Nutrition

Past World Hunger Prize Winners

Thirteen winners of the World Hunger Prize issued an appeal on October 30,  2024 at the  Borlaug Dialogue gathering in Des Moines, Iowa.  The annual gathering, this year from October 29-31, showcased over 50 speakers from around the world, includi...

October 30, 2024

Africa

Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail:  The Origins of Power, Prosper...

Woman walks past bags of grain in North Kordofan
August 7, 2024

Books & Media Reviews

Stalled Progress Against Hunger for Third Consecutive Year

by Robin Stephenson

For the third year in a row, global hunger remains persistently high after the increase during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations’...

April 13, 2024

Africa

Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny

Book Classic:  Famine, Conflict and Response:  a Basic Guide By Fred Cuny, with Rick Hill      (West Hartford, CN:  Kumarian Press       1999) This basic, extremely readable text about fami...

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