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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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Famine: what does it really mean and how do aid workers treat it?
by Imogen Wall The Guardian February 21, 2017
Famine looms in Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The horrible, medieval fate of starving to death is once again a 21st-century reality. But what does the word famine actually mean and how do aid workers treat it? For aid workers, famine is the extreme end of a long spectrum of what is kno...
Four famines mean 20 million may starve in the next six months
by Tom Miles Reuters February 19, 2017
More than 20 million people - greater than the population of Romania or Florida - risk dying from starvation within six months in four separate famines, U.N. World Food Programme chief economist Arif Husain says. Wars in Yemen, northeastern Nigeria ...
Why Do We Work So Hard To Hide Hunger?
by Princess Haya bint al Hussein Forbes February 19, 2017
A commentary by Princess Haya of Jordan, a humanitarian and UN Messenger of Peace. Each New Year brings with it a feeling of optimism, of hope and of change. Millions of us around the world make resolutions and promises to ourselves: to lose weight...
A Food Secure Future: Warding Off Instability And Conflict
by Isabel DoCampo The Chicago Council February 9, 2017
On February 1, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs launched a new blog series, A Food-Secure Future, to explore the challenges that threaten global food security and the opportunities that exist....
Early warning, early action: The innovations changing food crisis management
by Richard Choularton Devex January 28, 2017
There are many challenges to ending hunger and famine, but food security practitioners are developing innovative solutions that enable earlier and more evidence-based responses to food crises, and help communities build resilience to climate change and disasters....
Microbiome experts to speak at World Economic Forum
by Melanie Cordova Cornell Chronicle January 19, 2017
Three Cornell University faculty members are presenting ideas about tiny things to a gathering of influential thought leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Microbiomes, the combined genetic material of microorganisms in a particular environment, too small to be seen with th...
The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
by Ian Frazier The New Yorker January 9, 2017
Today in the U.S., vertical farms of various designs and sizes exist in Seattle, Detroit, Houston, Brooklyn, Queens, and near Chicago, among other places....
Scale up or cut back? Humanitarian aid grapples with growing funding gap
by Kristy Siegfried IRIN December 16, 2016
This week, the UN announced that $22.2 billion would be required to meet the needs of an estimated 92.8 million people affected by conflicts and natural disasters in 2017. Current funding trends suggest that aid agencies will be lucky...
Listen: Food Insecurity-a cause and consequence of conflict
by Hayley Susino Vatican Radio December 10, 2016
In a world where conflict affects so many communities, it is important to recognize the connection between food insecurity and social unrest. Kimberly Flowers, Director of the Global Food Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), was brought to Rome by U.S. Miss...
Dial ‘N’ for Nutrition? A Landscape Analysis of What We Know About m-Nutrition, m-Agriculture and m-Development
by Barnett, I., Scott, N., Batchelor, S. and Haddad, L. Institute of Development Studies December 10, 2016
Mobile phone technology has the potential to initiate behavior change and facilitate the long-term maintenance of new behaviors. This paper reviews the existing m-agri and m-health interventions. The purpose of this review is to assist would-be implementers and evaluators to understand the landscape...
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