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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.
We live in Aleppo. Here’s how we survive.
by Omair Shaaban Washington P:ost October 26, 2016
ALEPPO, Syria — There weren’t any bombs today, or the day before. That’s good, because it means you can leave your apartment, see your friends, try to pretend life is normal. Still, you don’t know when the attacks will resume or how much worse they’ll be when they do. See full st...
The U.S. foreign-aid budget, visualized
by Max Bearak and Lazaro Gamio Washington Post October 9, 2016
In a Kaiser Family Foundation study published in early 2015, the average respondent thought that 26 percent of the federal budget went to foreign aid. More than half of the respondents thought the United States was spending too much on foreign aid. In reality, this is what U.S. foreign aid looks l...
Hurricane Matthew makes old problems worse for Haitians
by Azam Ahmed New York Times October 7, 2016
The first reports to arrive were of vast flooding and destruction, rivers of brown water pulsing through streets and homes shorn of tin roofs. Eventually, the talk turned to livestock lost, a veritable fortune for those living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The storm left a broad ...
Battle for Islamic State stronghold could trigger a new crisis: A million displaced Iraqis
by Loveday Morris Washington Post October 6, 2016
DEBAGA, Iraq — The battle for the northern city of Mosul could force a million people to flee their homes. But even before it begins, aid agencies are struggling to shelter families displaced by the conflict against the Islamic State. The United Nations says it is nowhere near ready to deal with t...
Climate change threatens world coffee supply, report says
by Jonah Engel Bromwich New York Times September 28, 2016
A report examining the many ways climate change threatens coffee and coffee farmers has alarmed people who are now imagining what it would be like getting through the day without their caffeine fix....
U.N. refugee summits fall short for children
by Phoebe Braithwaite Inter Press Service September 23, 2016
As Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini opened the floor for U.S. President Barack Obama’s leaders’ summit on refugees, she embodied a hope unavailable to most child refugees. On Monday, the United States was one of the main countries to obstruct a U.N. Declaration that no child should ever be detai...
U.N. refugee summit: No cause for comfort
by Tharanga Yakupitiyage Inter Press Service September 22, 2016
With record numbers of forcibly displaced persons around the world, many were left disappointed by the outcome of a high level UN summit designed to address the issue by bringing together world leaders on the sidelines of the UN’s annual General Assembly. During the first-ever summit on Addressing...
Child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria
September 9, 2016
The world may have finally woken up to the child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria, but the latest data shows, if anything, a deepening crisis. Levels of Global Acute Malnutrition recorded in July and August were well over the 15 percent threshold deemed “...
Nearly 50 million children “uprooted” worldwide – UNICEF
by UNICEF September 8, 2016
Across the globe, nearly 50 million children have been uprooted – 28 million of them driven from their homes by conflicts not of their making, and millions more migrating in the hope of finding a better, safer life. Often traumatized by the conflicts and violence they are fleeing, they face furthe...
Gang violence in Central America is a humanitarian crisis. Aid agencies and donors need to do more.
by Kristy Siegfried IRIN September 4, 2016
Central America’s Northern Triangle – encompassing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras – is one of the most violent regions in the world outside of a warzone. Transnational gangs or maras have proliferated in the wake of decades of civil war and are largely responsible for a per capita death ...
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