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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.
Food waste is the world’s dumbest environmental problem
by Andy Murdock Vox May 11, 2017
"Just under 7 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste worldwide...This buzz is leading to new, innovative food waste solutions that can help address both hunger and global warming at the same time."...
Op Ed-More than Malnutrition: Famine as Social Crisis
by Alex de Waal Global Observatory/International Peace Institute May 4, 2017
Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tuft University's Fletcher School, discusses the history of declaring famines in this opinion editorial....
Yemen: the Forgotten Famine
by William Lambers Huffington Post April 27, 2017
Yemen has been in the news this week after Al Qaeda attacked a military base in the southern part of the country. Both the Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups are operating in Yemen, which has been in chaos from a civil war since last year....
Opinion: Famine: Where is the Rage?
by Marshall Matz AgriPulse April 23, 2017
"There is more interest in cage free eggs and other nutritional fads than in saving 20 million lives. Why is there no outrage?"...
This fundamental global problem touches everything from farming to technology
by Aza Wee Sile CNBC April 23, 2017
From diseases affecting plants and animals to climate change to protectionist trade policies, the threats are diverse and plenty. Meanwhile, the demand for food continues to swell with global population projected to grow by another 2 billion by 2020....
The great global food gap: Families around the world photographed with weekly shopping as they reveal cost ranges from £3.20 to £320
Daily Mail April 23, 2017
Snapshots of families' weekly shop from countries around the world shows the food gulf between nations....
Why Food Insecurity ‘Over There’ Matters Right Here
by Ivo Daalder Real Clear Politics April 14, 2017
Op Ed by the former U.S. ambassador to NATO: "As the United States debates the appropriate balance of military, diplomatic, and economic levers at its disposal, the link between global food security and global stability has never been more clear"...
How is famine declared?
by D,K. The Economist April 5, 2017
The UN relies on technocratic calculations but politics still plays a part....
Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA
by Alan Bjerga Bloomberg Politics March 28, 2017
An international school food-aid program backed by former Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Bob Dole would end under President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint, with the White House arguing its success isn’t proven. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, created in ...
Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
by Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times March 28, 2017
For the first time since anyone can remember, there is a very real possibility of four famines — in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen — breaking out at once, endangering more than 20 million....
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