Anti-Hunger Organizations
In Memoriam: Charlie Sykes, CARE Leader and Food Aid Advocate
May 16, 2026 Charlie Sykes, who defined a life well lived, passed away at 92 years of age, on May 7. He is survived by his wife, Anya, two children who both pursued careers in international aid (his daughter, Agnieszka and Chris) and four grandchildren: Sasha, Colleen, Lazlo, and Marek. ...
Summary of Aid Agency Roundtable Meeting about the Duty of Care of National Staff
May 9, 2026 Increasingly aid agencies have argued for more decision- making, resources and active roles for "local", or national, actors in aid programs, including food, nutrition and other development and humanitarian efforts. At the same time, aid agencies have taken efforts to provide...
Village Enterprise, a Nonprofit, Champions the “Graduation Model” to End Poverty
May 8, 2026 In the mid 2000s, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) pioneered a new approach for helping the very poor to grow out of poverty phase by phase, an approach called the "Graduation Approach....
Action Against Hunger 10 Global Hunger Hot Spots
May 6, 2026 This year, as in the past, the international aid agency "Action Against Hunger" (also known as ACF, or Action Contre la Faim) released their annual hunger report, titled "1...
Interview with Edesia’s Maria Kasparian about Anti-Hunger Foods
April 20, 2026 Plumpy’Nut has become one of the most recognizable tools in the fight against severe acute malnutrition among young children around the world. Plumpy’Nut is one brand of the broader food type called “...
Poetry & Hunger
The growing anti-hunger nonprofit Poetry X Hunger was founded in 2017 by Dr. Hiram Larew who is a retired director of international programs at the US Department of Agriculture and a poet. It operates as a component fund of Chesapeake Charities, which is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. ...
Concern for Sudan
World Hunger Education Service made its annual anti-hunger award, including our recommendation and a cash grant to Concern Worldwide for its food and nutrition assistance in the worst famine crisis in the world, The Sud...
HOPE in Gaza
Project HOPE is the recipient of a donation by the World Hunger Education Service (WHES), a non-profit dedicated to educating the public about solving hunger which selected Project Hope to highlight and affirm its excellent work providing recovery foods for malnourished ...
“11.5: Edge of Life” Campaign Targets to Reduce Deaths from Severe Wasting Malnutrition
A new global initiative to treat children with severe, wasting (short term) malnutrition was announced this past week by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates. The global campaign is called "The 11.5: Edge of Life Ramadan campaign", referring to the co...
Book Classic: The Challenge of Famine, Recent Experience and Lessons Learned by John Osgood Field
The anthology edited by John Osgood Field, The Challenge of Famine, Recent Experience Lessons Learned" remains one of the premier books about predicting and measuring famine ever published. Field, until his retirement a professor of food studies at Tufts University School of Nutrition, p...
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