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Fight hunger with knowledge. In this short video, World Hunger Education Service’s Steve Hansch explains global hunger, discusses a few causes, and tells you how to get involved in humanitarian work.
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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
Global Hunger: Children
Fact Sheet: Child Malnutrition
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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Global Hunger in the News
Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid Unites Evangelicals for Aid
by March 13, 2025
A prayer vigil for foreign aid was held March 11, among some 50 Christians, at the Capitol Hill Presbyterian...
USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations
by February 18, 2025
American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work. In early 2025 there has also been claims -- and false information -- by Congress and social media about an overall lack of transparency about this aid. The primary or lead aid agency for the US Government is the Unite...
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...
Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value
by USAID Alumni Association as shared with the USAA network and sent to the Department of State February 13, 2025
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 ...
USAID Adds Value in Disaster Response, Says Former Hunger Notes Chair
by Peter Morris, Retired USAID Disaster Leader February 12, 2025
Opinion piece from the former WHES Board Chair: Most people do not realize what a huge mistake it would be to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as appears to be underway here in February 2025. It would be like throwing the prove...
Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine
by January 14, 2025
WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine: https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...
Remembering Don Kennedy, Human Biologist
by November 4, 2024
Don Kennedy, who passed away four years ago, was founder of the unique Human Biology program at Stanford University, where he served as a role model as arguably the most influential teacher of his generation, particularly teaching about intersections of biology, ecology and policies. In addition...
Past World Hunger Prize Winners
by November 3, 2024
Thirteen winners of the World Hunger Prize issued an appeal on October 30, 2024 at the Borlaug Dialogue gathering in Des Moines, Iowa. The annual gathering, this year from October 29-31, showcased over 50 speakers from around the world, including the 2024 World Food Prize winners Dr. Geoffrey ...
Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize
by October 30, 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Crown Publishers), which arr...
Stalled Progress Against Hunger for Third Consecutive Year
by Robin Stephenson August 7, 2024
For the third year in a row, global hunger remains persistently high after the increase during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations’...
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