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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.
‘Alarm bells we cannot ignore’: world hunger rising for first time this century
by Karen McVeigh The Guardian September 18, 2017
A report by five UN Agencies shows that world hunger rose in 2016, largely due to conflict and climate-related shocks. “If you look at the 815 million [chronically undernourished] people, 489 million or 60% of them are located in countries affected by conflict. Over the last decade we’re seen a...
How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste and Hunger in New Zealand
by Rina Diane EcoWatch September 12, 2017
The Free Store is a nonprofit organization that redistributes surplus food from local businesses in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, to those in need: redistributing an estimated 800 to 1,500 food items each weeknight, averaging about 250,000 food items a year....
Hunger crises will escalate unless we invest more in addressing root causes, say UN food agency chiefs on visit to drought-hit Ethiopia
by FAO September 10, 2017
Speaking at the conclusion of a visit to Ethiopia, the heads of the United Nations food agencies made a joint call for greater investment in long-term activities that strengthen people's resilience to drought and the impacts of climate shocks....
World Food Programme using chatbots to monitor hunger in hard-to-reach areas
by Lynsey Chutel Quartz September 4, 2017
The UN’s World Food Program (WFP), has been experimenting with text and Facebook messenger chatbots to monitor food insecurity in hard-to-reach areas, turning smartphones and social media into lifelines for the most vulnerable of refugees....
The Global Hunger Crisis Will Not Be Tweeted
by Carolyn Miles Foreign Policy Magazine August 17, 2017
Recent poll by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) showed that only 15 percent of Americans had “a lot” of awareness of the ongoing global hunger crisis....
In pictures: The first 1,000 days of hunger
by BBC, UBELONG Photographers and Researchers BBC August 10, 2017
BBC has posted an educational photographic essay on the first 1000 days of hunger. Across Ghana, the irreversible effects of child malnutrition can be seen among thousands of children affected during their critical first 1,000 days of life. This is the time in a child's life that will determine thei...
Why It’s So Hard To Stop The World’s Looming Famines
by Courtney Columbus NPR August 6, 2017
Speaking with NPR's Audie Cornish on All Things Considered, he explained that politics and donor fatigue are two of the main causes....
This is what starvation looks like
by Jennifer Grubb CNN July 25, 2017
This picture gallery shows the human face of starvation. More than 20 million people are facing famine in Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and neighboring countries....
Unmasking hidden hunger in the developed world
by Greg Garrett, GAIN The Econmonist Intellenge Unit, Food Sustainability Index July 18, 2017
The word hunger generally calls to mind starving children in developing countries. Unfortunately, this type of hunger is still very much a reality. However, malnutrition is much more complex. Many children who consume enough food, and even obese and overweight children, may be malnourished because t...
Poll reveals 85% of Americans oblivious to hunger in Africa and Middle East
by Hannah Summers The Guardian July 14, 2017
Less than a fifth of Americans are aware that extreme hunger threatens the lives of 20 million people in Africa and the Middle East, yet the overwhelming majority regard it as the most pressing global issue once they have been told......
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