![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
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Our Food is Killing Too Many of Us by Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman
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WFP Warns of ‘Unprecedented’ Food Emergency in Burkina Faso
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Growing Food From Air in Nigeria
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Asia
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To Survive in a Wetter World, Raise Ducks, Not Chickens
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Opinion
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Malnutrition in Humanitarian Crises: The Will to End a Preventable Disease
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In photos: Finding food on the front line of climate change
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