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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.
New Planning Tool – WFP’s HungerMap
by Anna Gustilo-Ong World Food Programme January 22, 2020
On January 20, 2020 the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) launched HungerMap. HungerMap shows, in near real-time, current food security situations across the globe. This article, https://insight.wfp.org/wfp-launch...
An Interview with David Nabarro
by WHES November 7, 2019
Margie Ferris Morris and Peter Morris interviewed Dr. David Nabarro on a recent trip to Switzerland. David currently is the Founder and CEO of 4SD, a social enterprise based in Geneva. He has been a long-time advocate of nutrition and food security issues and was the recipient of the 2018 World ...
Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows
by Damian Carrington The Guardian October 29, 2019
Healthier food choices almost always benefit environment as well, according to analysis ...
In photos: Finding food on the front line of climate change
by Charlotte Hodges The Independent October 20, 2019
Niger is one of the driest climates on earth. Yuk Sugiura's powerful pictures capture how its people are living amidst a silent hunger crisis...
The many faces of global hunger – in pictures
by Chris de Bode, Abbie Trayler-Smith and Nora Lorek The Guardian October 16, 2019
Three award-winning photographers capture what hunger looks like around the world...
One in three young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
by Al Jazeera Al Jazeera October 14, 2019
Report finds 149 million children four or younger suffer stunting and that malnutrition costs the world $3.5tr yearly....
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....
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