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.
Author: Sarah Polaski
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?
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.
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.
‘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.
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 HOPE Lab survey, which included 8,333 students, only 38 percent of respondents at community colleges were not dealing with some sort of food or housing security problem, while just over half of state university students claimed the same.
U.N. food agency chief says peace deal would help ordinary North Koreans
A peace agreement with North Korea would go far toward easing the impoverished nation’s chronic food security woes, said David Beasley, head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Around 10 million of North Korea’s 25 million people have humanitarian needs, and problems such as malnutrition, anemia, undernutrition and stunting are severe.
Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
Hundreds of thousands of children in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo face imminent death from hunger, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, warned on Friday.
Without urgent humanitarian assistance, said the agency, child fatalities in the Kasai region – which erupted in violence in August 2016, and has forced 1 million people from their homes – could “skyrocket”.
Pennsylvania student raises thousands of dollars to fight hunger
Pennsylvania high school student Mason Finocchio, has been trying to put more food in bellies since the fall of 2015, when he took on a hunger challenge delivered to his school through the National Future Farmers of America (FFA) Organization. He launched his “Knock out Hunger” initiative with the goal to raise $5,000 in donations for local pantries and backpack programs. By the time Finocchio graduates this summer, he’ll have generated close to $15,000.
Harnessing Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Diets
Poor diets are posing a greater global health risk than air pollution, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined. Sir John Beddington, co-chair of Global Panel, unpacks its latest policy brief to explore opportunities for public-private partnerships.
