Americas
Venezuela: Displacement & Food Needs
August 16, 2026 Venezuela, which has had the largest number of refugees in the world fleeing the country, has been a focus of humanitarian aid following the large June earthquakes that killed between 6,000 and 18,000 citizens. ... Prior to those earthquakes, the U.S. Famine Early Warning Syst...
Hunger in Haiti
April 28, 2026: Over the last six years, the food crisis in Haiti has grown steadily worse. In 2019–2020, around 3.7 million Haitians were in food insecurity (IPC) Phase 3 or above. By 2022–2023, that was approaching 4.7 million, nearly half the population. The most recent UN Integrated ...
CSIS Reviews Implications of the Final U.S. Hunger Report
A new Jan. 6 report from the think tank, CSIS, reviews the recent U.S. Government study about hunger in America, noting that this until-now annual food security or hunger report will no longer be conducted by the US Government which deemed it political and inducing fear. Caitlin Welsh, the author of...
The end of my career in global health
The election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was a gut punch, but I did not know then that the real destruction of the world as I knew it would begin to unfold in January 2025, when Trump began the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttering almost all ...
Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value
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 ...
U.S. Anti-Hunger Efforts by Congressional Hunger Center
On February 22, 2023 the Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) hosted a gathering of 50 staff and Hunger Fellows to look back at their achievements over the decades in addressing hunger in the United States. A key topic was success in promoting local legislation to provide free meals in schools, and...
Budding farmers eager to help with Jamaica’s food security
What started as an escape from the COVID-19 pandemic has blossomed into the rollout of a school-based farming club. The new Budding Farmers Grow Club is an agriculture-based extracurricular activity aimed at engaging children in discovering the ins and outs of planting, growing and caring for agricu...
World Hunger Day: One in Five Canadian Children are Food Insecure, New Campaign Launches to Spark Conversations at Home and at School
With World Hunger Day around the corner on May 28th, the two organizations are proud to launch Food For Thought, a new campaign which aims to raise awareness of food insecurity in Canada....
Central Americans fleeing due to hunger, food insecurity: Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris says US plans to provide aid for agriculture, disaster relief in bid to stem migration....
What About CORONA Virus and Food Safety?
An interesting assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Virus and food safety....
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