Food Systems

Video Interview about Food Aid with Eline de Looijer

by August 21, 2025

In the new video by WHES, Food aid expert Eline de Looijer  explains to Hunger Notes about the basics of international humanitarian food aid. https://www.worldhunger.org/what-is-food-aid/...

World Expo in Osaka Japan Targets Zero Hunger

by June 15, 2025

An exhibit focusing on world hunger has been on display for the past two weeks, ending today, June 15, 2025, at the World Expo in Japan.  World Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai is currently taking place in Japan under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. The exhibition ...

Famine Early Warning System Restarted

by May 29, 2025

Correction & Update:  Hunger Notes reported on March 19 about the cancellation of the important, 40-year-old Famine Early Warning System program, created and funded by USAID.  While true at the time...

2nd Annual International Food Aid Showcase, June 10 in Washington, D.C.

by May 28, 2025

George Washington University (GW), in Washington, D.C. will host a gathering of NGO and food experts on June 10, 2025, to share lessons about overseas food aid and look ahead.  It is co-sponsored by Counterpart International (an international NGO), the Alliance to End Hunger, and GW's Global Food I...

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 ...

America Farm Workers Face Food Insecurity

by February 25, 2025

Investigative article in Grist covers challenges facing farm workers in the US including high food prices and low compensation. https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmworker-hunger-crisis-climate-inflation-grocery-costs/ "The people who feed America are going hungry:   Clim...

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Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine

by https://time.com/7216387/feeding-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/ February 21, 2025

The newly released Time Magazine review (Feb. 20, 2025) of "Women of the Year" features Claire Babineaux-Fonteno for her nation-wide advocacy to end hunger.   (https://time.com/7216387/feeding-am...

Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID

by Margie Ferris Morris February 14, 2025

The US Government Agency that Brings Aid - USAID USAID, started in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy.  Estimates are that some 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance      . The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a part of USAID, identifies fo...

WHES Undertakes Research about Attacks Against Food & Nutrition in Humanitarian Aid

by December 12, 2024

This month, toward the end of 2024, World Hunger Education Service  launched a broad  study about the patterns, trends and extent of violent attacks and threats against aid programs delivering food and nutrition solutions in famines, crises, war zones, and for displaced populations.  The results ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World

by steve hansch February 6, 2024

BOOK REVIEW:  The Enduring Struggle:  The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris.   2021.   Lanham MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assista...

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