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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.
UN Warns Manage Climate Risks or Face Much More Hunger by 2050
by Voice of America November 17, 2017
Climate change threats, from worsening drought and flooding to sea level rise, could increase the risks of hunger and child malnutrition around the world by 20 percent by 2050, food security researchers warned Wednesday....
UN Chief: Worldwide Famine Averted, but Numbers of Hungry Growing
by Margaret Besheer Voice of America November 2, 2017
The United Nations secretary-general says early action by the international community has helped avert widespread famine, but the number of people in need is continuing to grow. “Until these conflicts are resolved and development takes root, communities and entire regions will continue to be rav...
Iraq takes steps to save Mosul livestock after Islamic State’s rule
by Thin Lei Win Reuters October 24, 2017
Iraq and the United Nations launched a campaign Monday to vaccinate nearly one million livestock in the Mosul area over fears the animals may be carrying diseases, as they have not been vaccinated since Islamic State seized the city in 2014....
The world is off track to end hunger, so what’s the solution?
by Homi Kharas and John McArthur Brookings Institution October 24, 2017
The world is off track to meet its own deadline for ending hunger. For the first time in many years, the estimated number of undernourished people has actually gone up rather than down. It now stands at slightly more than 800 million undernourished people worldwide, according to the Food and Agricul...
Why World Hunger Isn’t Going Away As Fast As We’d Hoped
by Nurith Aizenman NPR October 23, 2017
Rob Vos has been tracking global hunger for years, and he says until recently the mood among his fellow hunger experts was almost giddy. Since 1990 the world had made so much progress curbing hunger that in 2015, leaders met at the United Nations and vowed to eliminate hunger for good by 2030. For...
Can We End World Hunger by 2030?
by Brookings Institution: Geoffrey Gertz, Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Lorenz Noe Brookings Institution October 16, 2017
The world is off track to meet its own goal of ending hunger by 2030, and it’s not clear if anyone in power will ever be held accountable for the shortfall. Just over two years ago, the international community committed to ending hunger as the second of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...
How Climate Change Is Making Hunger Worse Around The World
by Eillie Anzilotti Fast Company October 4, 2017
The annual Global Food Security Index is now tracking a country’s natural resource supply, and its resiliency in the event of a major natural disaster. The conclusion: climate change is making it harder to feed people....
Hunger Fighters Interview: Jim Levinson
by Hunger Notes September 28, 2017
Biographic Snapshot: Jim Levinson served as Director of the International Nutrition Planning Program at MIT, the International Food and Nutrition Center at Tufts, and the Office of Nutrition for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. He has worked exten...
The Faces of Venezuelan Hunger
by Fabiola Zerpa and Noris Soto Bloomberg September 28, 2017
Bloomberg news photographed some of those hit hardest by Venezuela's ongoing crisis ...
Venezuelan families scavenge for food to survive hunger
by Lucia Newman Al Jazeera September 26, 2017
Venezuela's prolonged and acute economic crisis - characterized by food shortages and hyperinflation - has seen infant mortality rise to almost 35 percent and maternal mortality to 65 percent in just the last year and anemia is rampant....
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