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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.
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
by Andrew Jacobs New York Times October 10, 2019
When the Indian government bowed to powerful food companies last year and postponed its decision to put red warning labels on unhealthy packaged food, officials also sought to placate critics of the delay by creating an expert panel to review the proposed labeling system, which would have gone far b...
Eight Innovations Ending Food Loss
by Colton Fagundes Food Tank September 9, 2019
Food Tank highlights eight ways that innovators are solving the issue of post-harvest food loss in developing countries....
Public health movement leader David Sanders dies at 74
by Scroll Staff Sroll.in September 2, 2019
Sanders, who worked mainly in Zimbabwe and South Africa, influenced the public health movement in India significantly....
Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger
by Basit Mahmood Metro August 18, 2019
A pub in Keynsham, Somerset, UK, has decided to give away 100 free meals a day to hungry children, in an attempt to help poor families during the summer holidays....
Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
by Christopher Flavelle The New York Times August 8, 2019
The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself....
UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide
by Alex Russell UC Davis August 1, 2019
The University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilie...
THE ARGUMENT FOR PROTECTING WILD FOODS
by Sarah Sax Pacific Standard July 23, 2019
"Wild foods," or wild edible species, provide important nutrients for millions of people worldwide, but they were left out of a recent report on creating sustainable food systems....
CHEF JOSÉ ANDRÉS NAMED 2019 JULIA CHILD AWARD RECIPIENT
by The Julia Child Foundation The Julia Child Foundation July 23, 2019
The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts announced José Andrés as the recipient of the fifth annual Julia Child Award. Chef Andrés and his World Central Kitchen have been feeding people around the world and will receive the award and a $50,000 grant to further their humani...
Why is global hunger on the rise? UN economists explain a new answer
by Amy Lieberman Devex July 16, 2019
Two UN economists, authors of the SOFI report, discuss the new statistics on world hunger...
New UN State of Food Security report released
by United Nations United Nations July 15, 2019
The United Nations just released the 2019 State of Food Security report....
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