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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.
May 28th is World Hunger Day!
by The Hunger Project May 28, 2016
THIS WORLD HUNGER DAY, THE HUNGER PROJECT IS FOCUSING ON GOOD NUTRITION Good nutrition – an adequate and well-balanced diet – is a cornerstone of good health. Better nutrition is related to improved infant child and maternal health, stronger immune systems and safer pregnancy...
Latin America to tackle dual problems of hunger and obesity: U.N.
by ANASTASIA MOLONEY Thompson Reuters Foundation May 23, 2016
BOGOTA - Latin American governments have pledged to work toward ending hunger within a decade while tackling an epidemic of rising obesity in the region - itself considered a form of malnutrition....
Doctors Without Borders brands humanitarian summit ‘a fig-leaf of good intentions’ as it pulls out.
by Sam Jones The Guardian May 5, 2016
Médecins Sans Frontières cites concern over accountability of governments and flouting of humanitarian laws as it withdraws from Istanbul summit. ...
Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves. As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino fa...
by Toby Stirling Hill The Guardian May 3, 2016
For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody. ...
Honduras arrests 4 men in killing of Berta Cáceres, indigenous activist
by Elizabeth Malkin New York Times May 2, 2016
The global land rights struggle is intensifying
by Edward Loure and Fred Nelson The Guardian April 27, 2016
Customary land users care for roughly 50% of the earth's land, but only 10% is officially recognized as belonging to these communities....
Mapped: The world at war
by Emmeline Booth Irin News April 26, 2016
This map of ongoing conflicts around the world is part of IRIN’s ongoing series on the world’s forgotten conflicts...
Land tenure still a problem for women in Latin America
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Serivce April 13, 2016
Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.“Women are the most vulnerable group of people with respect to the question of land tenure,” Soledad Parada, a gender...
Failing states: Many problems, few solutions
by Barry Mirkin and Joseph Chamie Inter Press Service April 9, 2016
Regardless of whether they are called fragile, failed, or failing states, scores of countries around the globe are plagued by overwhelming problems with few solutions in sight. Moreover, the instability and dire straits of these countries are spilling across national borders, destabilizing neighbori...
A daughter takes up her slain mother’s activism
by Darryl Fears Washington Post April 9, 2016
The wispy young woman with raven-black hair and expressive brown eyes was introduced to the small crowd as Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, but hardly anyone in her tight circle calls her that. She is known by the Spanish diminutive “Bertita,” an homage to her internationally famous mother, environmenta...
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