Anti-Hunger Organizations
World Bank President Seeks Funds for Crisis Response
April 24, 2026 At the annual World Bank/IMF annual meeting held April 13–18, 2026, remarks and speeches by the World Bank President, Ajay Banga, addressed the current crises in the world affecting agriculture, fertilizer and increased risks to lower income countries....
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. T...
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...
Key U.N. Updates Show Alarming Hunger Trends
Recent UN annual reports and updates about global hunger highlight several important issues and trends as we move into 2026: WFP will prioritize feeding 110 million in 2026 despite larger need: Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP...
Articles about Malnutrition Field Programs, “Field Exchange”, October 2025
The Emergency Nutrition Exchange, based out of Dublin, Ireland, has published groundbreaking, field-level technical research about attacking malnutrition for the last few decades. The latest edition, Issue 76 (October 2025) showcases community-led, data-informed, and systems-focused approaches to ...
A Crucible of Courage: A Review of Ken Isaacs’ “Running to the Fire”
Ken Isaacs spent more than three decades with Samaritan’s Purse, rising to executive vice-president and helping turn Franklin Graham’s organization into one of the largest Christian relief agencies on earth. In Running to the Fire he recounts that journey through a series of crisply tol...
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