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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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Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade
by Johanna Lehne & Laura Wellesley Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs June 27, 2017
Physical ‘chokepoints’ along trade routes are critical to global food security. The importance of these chokepoints and the risks of closure or disruption are increasing, but such risks and their potential impact remain largely overlooked. Currently, four out of five people live in countries tha...
UN refugee agency: Record 65.6 million people displaced worldwide
BBC June 21, 2017
Yesterday was World Refugee Day and on that day "a record 65.6 million people are either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced across the globe, the UN refugee agency said."...
BRICS countries well placed for a leadership role in helping eradicate global hunger and poverty by 2030
FAO News June 18, 2017
With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, Ministries of Agriculture in five of the world's most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, the UN's Food and...
VIDEO: Empowering Women Would Help End World Hunger
by Zlatica Hoke Voice of America June 18, 2017
This is a useful video for students who want to learn about where global hunger exists....
Five myths about famine
by Gayle Smith Washington Post June 10, 2017
As the looming threat and tragic reality of famine spread across South Sudan, northern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, 20 million people are in urgent need of food and other assistance. But even with grim reports from the UNs’ relief agencies and images of starving children, there is widespread confus...
UN WFP, FAO chiefs unite to lobby for famine relief
by Adva Saldinger Devex June 7, 2017
The heads of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the U.N. World Food Programme were in Washington, D.C., on Monday, in an effort to garner attention and funds for famine relief in South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria....
The U.N. asked for billions to avert four hunger crises. The money didn’t arrive
by Kevin Sieff, June 3 Washington Post June 6, 2017
NAIROBI — At the beginning of this year, the United Nations made one of its boldest requests ever for funding. It needed billions of dollars to fund a humanitarian response, said Secretary General António Guterres, or as many as 20 million people might starve to death. Five months later, the resu...
Uber for Tractors is Really a Thing in Developing Countries
by Wayan Vota ICT Works June 1, 2017
You’ve probably taken an Uber, Lyft, or Grab Taxi. You may have used AirBnb. You could’ve even used Task Rabbit. This is all part of the “sharing economy,” and regardless if you think its entrepreneurial or exploitative, it is now fully part of development country economies. The Sharing Econ...
On World Hunger Day, a look at why so many people don’t get enough food
by Ann M. Simmons LA Times May 31, 2017
As World Hunger Day is observed on Sunday, here’s a look at what’s behind the continuing prevalence of hunger around the world....
Ethiopia’s Tedros to be next leader of UN health agency
by Jamey Keaten AND Maria Cheng AP via ABC May 24, 2017
Africa, where viruses such as HIV, Ebola and Zika emerged, has its first chief of the U.N. health agency. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former Ethiopian minister of health, was elected Tuesday as the next director-general of the World Health Organization, becoming the first non-medical doctor and t...
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