Food Aid

Photo: World Food Programme truck at IDP camp [courtesy WFP]

Food aid 2018: the never-ending crisis

by IRIN IRIN January 16, 2018

2018  This special IRIN report focuses on those who are most food insecure – those on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Including:  "According to the UN’s Global Humanitarian Overview for 2018, some $22.5 billion in aid will be re...

President Trump’s proposed food aid cuts are a mistake

July 13, 2026

jerry Moran is a United States Senator for Kansas and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He serves as co-chair of the Senate Hunger Caucus and formerly chaired the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which allocates funding for certain USAID and USDA global food programs. T...

Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA

by Alan Bjerga Bloomberg Politics March 28, 2017

An international school food-aid program backed by former Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Bob Dole would end under President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint, with the White House arguing its success isn’t proven. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, created in ...

Interview with Daniel Shaughnessy, Chairman of the Board of World Hunger Education Service

by Margie Ferris-Morris World Hunger Education Service June 27, 2013

June 27, 2013     World Hunger Education Service (WHES), which publishes “Hunger Notes,” began 37 years ago. Daniel Shaughnessy has been Chairman of the WHES Board for 13 years. Shaughnessy has dedicated almost all of his adult life to combating hunger and addressing worldwide food issues. He...

Kill the Food for Peace program? What a horrible idea from our own government! (opinion)

by Dan Shaughnessy World Hunger Education Services April 27, 2013

For more than 57 years, the United States has given food, through what is known as the Food for Peace Program, to hundreds of millions of people who were starving and malnourished. This program has used safe and nutritious US produced food to help famine victims, malnourished children and their moth...

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  • World Hunger Education
    Service
    P.O. Box 29015
    Washington, D.C. 20017

  • About WHES & Hunger Notes
    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
    • 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.