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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.
Who are the world’s food insecure? Identifying the risk factors of food insecurity around the world
by Michael D. Smith and Birgit Meade Amber Waves June 26, 2019
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) reports on FAO's new Food Insecurity Experience Scale, which is modeled on ERS's U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module. ...
Graça Machel calls for disrupting the agricultural sector to achieve Zero Hunger
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations June 23, 2019
Delivering the McDougall Memorial Lecture on food security at the opening of the 41st Session of the FAO Conference on the challenges and opportunities of reaching Zero Hunger, Graça Machel - an international advocate for children's and women's rights - condemned "the shameful failure of global...
Malnutrition, a global problem in search of global solutions
by Amruta Byatnal Devex June 17, 2019
NEW DELHI — Sunita Devi is huddled with about 20 women in a primary health care center in Gervani village, in the central state of Chhattisgarh in India. She’s anemic and pregnant, and she has questions for the health worker: “When will my anemia go away? Will my child be born anemic too? What...
Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic
by BBC BBC May 21, 2019
Food waste is a bigger cause of climate change than plastics, according to Zero Waste Scotland. The government-funded body has urged people to cut down the amount of unwanted food they put in the bin. When food waste ends up in landfill it rots, producing ...
Emissions and microplastics: How food waste hurts the environment
by Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle May 1, 2019
Throwing away food that could still be eaten isn't just a waste of money, it also costs precious resources, hurts the climate, threatens biodiversity and can contaminate our soil with microplastics....
Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns, as 113 million go hungry
by Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations (UN) Africa News April 4, 2019
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and EU “Global Report on Food Crises 2019”, shows that the number going chronically-hungry has remained well over 100 million over the past three years, with the number of countries affected, rising. According to the rep...
Food banks risk being ‘captured’ by corporate PR drive, say activists
by Patrick Butler The Guardian March 26, 2019
The UK food bank movement has been warned it is in danger of being “captured” by big corporations and supermarket chains that promote high-profile partnerships with charities as effective ways of solving hunger and food waste. A letter to the Guardian from 58 academics and campaigners criti...
Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare
by Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times March 18, 2019
Made up of 43 public health experts from 14 countries, the Lancet Commission on Obesity emphasized that the problems of obesity, malnutrition and climate change are inextricably linked by factors such as overconsumption, unchecked marketing and government failures....
The World Food Program Uses Innovation to Disrupt Hunger
by Maddie Seibert Food Tank March 4, 2019
The World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator began in 2016 and its process, “Design. Fail. Iterate. Scale.” is reminiscent of a startup accelerator. The Innovation Accelerator accepts applications from WFP staff, aspiring startups, NGOs, and companies, selects the best, and offers funding a...
How Climate Change Could Knock Fish Off of Dinner Plates
by Brittany Shoot Fortune March 1, 2019
Between 1930 and 2010, the global productivity of marine fisheries decreased by 4.1%, according to new research published in the March issue of the journal Science. Moreover, according to the same research study, some of the largest fish-producing ecoregions are experiencing losses of up t...
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