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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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Hunger Fighters Interview- Andrew Green and Amruta Byatnal, Malnutrition Deeply
by June 26, 2018
by Hunger Notes Hunger Fighters Interview: Andrew Green and Amruta Byatnal This is part of a series we are doing about real people who are working to fight hunger and poverty in various ways around the world. This episode focuses on the creators of Malnutrition Deeply, a website t...
Hunger Fighters Interview: The Borgen Project
by June 9, 2018
Hunger Fighters Interview: The Borgen Project This is part of a series we are doing about real people who are working to fight hunger and poverty around the world. This episode focuses on the staff of The Borgen Project, an advocacy group that works to increase awareness and actio...
Hunger surges amid deadly conflicts, poor weather conditions in many countries – UN agriculture agency
by United Nations UN News June 8, 2018
Despite ample food supplies, persistent conflicts and adverse climate shocks are taking a toll on global food security, according to a new report launched on Thursday by the United Nation’s agriculture agency....
The miller’s tale: poverty, obesity and the 45p loaf
by Felicity Lawrence The Guardian June 3, 2018
The UK’s public health epidemic is forcing a rethink on how low-income families can enjoy a better diet. At age five, UK children in poor households are twice as likely to be obese as those in richer ones. By age 11, they are three times as likely to be obese,...
Food Waste Enough to Feed World’s Hungry Four Times Over
by Thalif Deen Inter Press Service News Agency May 28, 2018
Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency interviewed Alessandro Demaio, Chief Executive Officer of the Norway-based EAT, an international NGO engaged in the fight against hunger. Demaio said “At EAT, our mission is a simple but ambitious one: to transform the global food system and enable us to feed ...
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....
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....
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....
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