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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.
Strait of Hormuz Fertilizer Disruptions and Increases of Malnutrition Risk Worldwide
June 3, 2026
June 4, 2026 News Analysis by Rohma Akhtar The Middle East war continues to disrupt ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz affecting shipments of urea, sulfur and phosphates for fertilizer. As predicted, aid agencies are reporting increases in malnutrition as a result. As reported here, in...
Hunger in Haiti
April 28, 2026
April 28, 2026: Over the last six years, the food crisis in Haiti has grown steadily worse. In 2019–2020, around 3.7 million Haitians were in food insecurity (IPC) Phase 3 or above. By 2022–2023, that was approaching 4.7 million, nearly half the population. The most recent UN Integrated ...
New Global Report on Food Crises, 2026
April 26, 2026
April 26, 2026 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), jointly published on April 24 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Global Network Against Food Crises, estimates that some 35.5 million children were acutely malnourished across 23 nutriti...
World Bank President Seeks Funds for Crisis Response
April 24, 2026
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. Banga announced that th...
New Global Survey of Food Resilience, by the Economist
March 6, 2026
May 6, 2026 The Economist Impact's inaugural Resilient Food Systems Index (RFSI), supported by Cargill, benchmarks food system resilience across 60 countries using 71 indicators organized into four pillars: affordability, availability, quality and safety, and climate risk responsiveness. Th...
Food Fortification Efficiently Prevents Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022316626000301?via%3Dihub March 5, 2026
A new analysis of food fortification programs finds that the fortification of consumer foods is cost-effective in the majority of contexts in reducing deficiency diseases of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). The findings are available online, as published by Elise Cogo, Ferruccio Pelone, et ...
Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk-The Massive Costs of Gutting USAID
by Alice Hill and Lindsey Doyle Foreign Affairs January 16, 2026
This article explains how the long-term climate-related effects of cutting USAID are real in terms of actual dollar costs to countries, as well as other impacts, such as increased irregular migration, climate risks, endangered supply chains, humanitarian spending, and more....
Key U.N. Updates Show Alarming Hunger Trends
December 12, 2025
December 2025 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 to prioritize food assistanc...
Scoop: State Department ends support for some food security programs
by Elissa Miolene Devex December 9, 2025
"The decision halts funding for initiatives that build resilience in chronically food-insecure regions — known as resilience food security activities or nonemergency food aid — which are designed to reduce chronic hunger and prevent future emergencies." ...
Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity
by WHES Team November 21, 2025
Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity As part of its mission to educate about hunger, WHES has put together an index of publicly available lesson plans on hunger and food insecurity. Whether you are a school teacher, a homeschooling parent, a daycare worker, a parent or guardian, or another typ...
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