Africa

Hunger Notes Co-sponsors Basic Education Roundtable

by June 2, 2025

World Hunger Education Service (WHES) is co-hosting a roundtable of experts on June 12, 2025, a Thursday, to discuss American experiences and capabilities for supporting basic education overseas, including recommendations for how U.S. official foreign aid could re-incorporate early grade education, ...

Demise of McGovern-Dole School Feeding

by June 1, 2025

This month, May 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cancelled most of its existing foreign assistance programs, including those involving overseas school feedings.  These projects are referred to as "Mc...

World Hunger Day

by May 28, 2025

May 28 is World Hunger Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about global hunger and inspire action to address food insecurity and malnutrition.  World Hunger Day has been celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty since 2011, and this year targets the importance of "sowing resil...

Book: How to Feed the World by Vaclav Smil

by steve hansch https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780593834510/vaclav-smil/how-to-feed-the-world?blnBKM=1 April 23, 2025

Vaclav Smil has produced an increasing repertoire of books summarizing how humans consume different resources.  Over four decades he has visited many topics including food availability and its constraints.  His latest 2025 book, "How to Feed the World:  The History and Future of Food" stands as h...

Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet

by April 8, 2025

Lisa Palmer's book, Hot, Hungry Planet, The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, presents seven case studies of individuals working in different continents in the race against hunger, noting that "with a growing population, the demand for rice and other cereals ...

Why the Destruction of USAID Increases Hunger and Harms America

by Lani Marquez March 21, 2025

March 21, 2025 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the agency created by Congress in 1961 to lead America’s development and humanitarian assistance, has been decimated by President Trump’s January 21 Executive Order freezing U.S. fore...

In Memoriam: The US Famine Early Warning System, Known as FEWS, as well as SERVIR

by Steven Hansch March 19, 2025

The program which many experts considered to be the most effective at stopping famines and starvation and arguably the single most valuable aid program of all time, has ended its 40 year run of success, as the White House shut it down, alongside hundreds of other global initiatives, without review, ...

Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value

by USAID Alumni Association as shared with the USAA network and sent to the Department of State February 13, 2025

February 13, 2025:   The United States Agency for International Development Association's Alumni Association, of retired USAID experts, petitioned new Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the USAID Administrator, with this letter this week, citing a few of the many USAID-supported projects ...

USAID Adds Value in Disaster Response, Says Former Hunger Notes Chair

by Peter Morris, Retired USAID Disaster Leader February 12, 2025

Opinion piece from the former WHES Board Chair:   Most people do not realize what a huge mistake it would be to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as appears to be underway here in February 2025.  It would be like throwing the prove...

Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine

by January 14, 2025

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

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    Service
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  • For the past 40 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
    • Advance comprehension which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on the world food problem
    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.