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A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World

by Andrew Jacobs New York Times October 10, 2019

When the Indian government bowed to powerful food companies last year and postponed its decision to put red warning labels on unhealthy packaged food, officials also sought to placate critics of the delay by creating an expert panel to review the pro...

Eight Innovations Ending Food Loss

by Colton Fagundes Food Tank September 9, 2019

Food Tank highlights eight ways that innovators are solving the issue of post-harvest food loss in developing countries....

Public health movement leader David Sanders dies at 74

by Scroll Staff Sroll.in September 2, 2019

Sanders, who worked mainly in Zimbabwe and South Africa, influenced the public health movement in India significantly....

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Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger

by Basit Mahmood Metro August 18, 2019

A pub in Keynsham, Somerset, UK, has decided to give away 100 free meals a day to hungry children, in an attempt to help poor families during the summer holidays....

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Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns

by Christopher Flavelle The New York Times August 8, 2019

The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself....

Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID
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UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide

by Alex Russell UC Davis August 1, 2019

The University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the F...

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  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
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