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2018 World Food Prize laureates: Ending malnutrition for mothers and young children

Alarmed by the vast numbers of malnourished children in the world, two British men have spent their lives working to ensure that mothers and their young children can obtain high-quality foods and vitamins.

This month, the men — economist Dr. Lawrence Haddad and physician Dr. David Nabarro — will be honored with the prestigious 2018 World Food Prize.

The men will split a $250,000 prize as part of an award envisioned decades ago as the “Nobel Prize of Food and Agriculture” by its late founder, legendary agricultural scientist Dr. Norman E.Borlaug.

Ebay against hunger

A new app supports crop sales for rural smallholder farmers in Zambia. Smallholder farmers around the world are often forced to sell their harvests below market value due to a lack of market and pricing information. A new app by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is going to change this.

Tackling food waste: Local organization opens community fridges in the GTA

A community fridge is a straightforward concept. Restaurants and households donate untouched food that would typically go to waste, and anybody in need of a meal can take what they want.

Astana opens Islamic Organisation for Food Security headquarters

The Islamic Organisation for Food Security (IOFS) headquarters opened Sept. 27 in Kazakhstan’s capital. The organisation seeks to strengthen cooperation among member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to ensure food security for its member states and develop the Kazakh agricultural industry.

Hunger, disease and violence: Is Somalia the worst place in the world to be a child?

Malnutrition is the biggest killer of children in Somalia, usually not because they starve to death but because their bodies are so emaciated their immune systems become too weak to fend off disease.

Hunger and fighting persist despite ‘peace’ in South Sudan

Harvests and markets have been disrupted by the 5-year-long war and people rely on aid agencies for deliveries of life-saving food. Last year a man-made famine was declared in two opposition areas while the latest assessment, issued Friday, found that 6.1 million people are going hungry.

This ad shows the true cost of world hunger

A new 60-second ad will air in movie theaters to raise awareness of world hunger.

Kenya: Govt takes over responsibility from WFP to provide school meals

Some 1.6 million pupils at more than 4,000 schools will each receive a hot lunch daily under the school meals program this year – now all financed by the Government of Kenya.

New report sheds sobering light on hunger on college campuses

A new report sheds a sobering light on hunger on college campuses.
It finds that 35 percent of students at Temple University have gone hungry in the past year and 56 percent at the Community College of Philadelphia say they have found themselves going without a proper meal.

Insurgents’ attacks lead to food shortage in northern Mozambique: report

Sporadic attacks by insurgents in the northern province Cabo Delgado in Mozambique combined with the El Nino phenomenon have caused food shortages, according to a report released Monday here by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

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