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Photo: A local man selling street food in Ampefy, Madagascar. [Getty Images]

Harnessing Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Diets

by Sir John Beddington News Deeply May 12, 2018

Poor diets are posing a greater global health risk than air pollution, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined. Sir John Beddington, co-chair of Global Panel, unpacks its latest policy brief to explore opportunities for public-private partnerships....

Photo: Volunteers of the international NGO Kuwait Patients Helping Fund prepare a mixture for feeding malnourished children, as well as pregnant and lactating women, in Abu Shouk camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), North Darfur. [UN Photo/Albert González Farran]

Global Food Security: A Primer

by Eric Schewe JSTOR Daily May 10, 2018

In his monthly column, Security State of Mind, Middle Eastern History scholar Eric Schewe interrogates what’s new, interesting, and strange in the world of security studies. This month, his focus is "food security."...

Researcher exposes the reality of food insecurity in New Zealand

by May 4, 2018

In New Zealand, Massey University's Dr. Rebekah Graham found that a growing number of people experience food insecurity. "Subsequently, inequality and poverty in Aotearoa/New Zealand has grown at an extraordinary rate. The divide between the wealthy and everyone else has grown faster than in any oth...

Hunger: The brutal reality

by Ram Chandra Neupane The Himalayan Times May 1, 2018

Useful op ed for young people trying to understand what global hunger is and why it exists....

Richard V. Reeves, Senior Fellow – Economic Studies & Co-Director – Center on Children and Families (Photo: Brookings)  

Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment

by Eleanor Krause and Richard V. Reeves Brookings April 22, 2018

Low-income and minority households are more likely to live in neighborhoods exposed to higher levels of water and air pollution. Perhaps it’s time to start thinking about environmental poverty as an additional dimension of poverty....

Franck Bousquet, senior director of the World Bank Fragility, Conflict & Violence Group (Photo: World Bank)

Q&A: The World Bank’s pivot to fragile states

by Michael Igoe Devex April 21, 2018

The World Bank is taking steps to move earlier into conflict-affected and fragile countries with more funding, more staff, and a mandate to focus on prevention, according to the institution’s fragility, conflict, and violence director....

Logo courtesy International School Meals Day (ISMD) homepage

March 15 is International School Meals Day

by International School Meals Day (ISMD) homepage March 15, 2018

Since its launch in 2013, it has brought together teachers and students, policy makers, school cooks, chefs, food and nutrition professionals, schools and communities, charities, businesses and health professionals from around the world to talk about the importance of school meals and its impact on ...

(Photo: Goats for Girls)

6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger

by World Food Program USA March 8, 2018

Investing in women and girls will play a huge role in ending global hunger. Get to know why they’re at the forefront of the development agenda and how everything from goats to the promise of a school meal are being used to maximize their potential to change the world....

Adelaida Marca, an Aymara indigenous woman, has been successful at the Rural World Expo in Santiago selling her sought-after premium oregano, which has a special fragrance, grown on terraces in Socoroma, her village in the highlands of northern Chile. (Photo:Indap)

Rural Women Are Essential to the Struggle Against Hunger

by Orlando Milesi Inter Press Service March 8, 2018

Rural women make up more than a quarter of the world’s population and 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force, according to UN Women....

Girls and women in Rumbek, South Sudan, gain access to the wild fruit Laluq, which they typically use to make porridge. (Photo: Charles Lomodong/Plan International)

The mother is the last to eat in developing countries

by Yasmin Noone SBS March 8, 2018

More than 120 million women in developing countries are underweight. Given that women are typically in charge of their household's food production, experts say this female-hunger is due to gender inequality. #IWD...

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