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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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Hunger Basics
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.
Biofortification pioneers win 2016 World Food Prize for fight against malnutrition
by Hunger Notes June 29, 2016
Drs. Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, Jan Low and Howarth Bouis were announced as the 2016 World Food Prize Laureates during a June 28 ceremony at the U.S. State Department. Three of the 2016 laureates -- Dr. Maria Andrade, Dr. Robert Mwanga and Dr. Jan Low of the International Potato Center (CIP), ...
FROM UNIFORMITY TO DIVERSITY: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems
by Emile Frison IPES Food June 15, 2016
The report ‘From Uniformity to Diversity: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems’ written by International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food System (IPES-FOOD) was launched at the Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity on 2 June 2016. The comprehe...
Pope Francis’ speech at World Food Program
by Rome Reports June 13, 2016
Pope Francis addressed the World Food Program with an inspired speech regarding the “goal of zero hunger, denaturalizing poverty, debureaucratizing hunger and the violence of hunger as a weapon of war.”...
The World Humanitarian Summit: winners and losers
by Heba Aly IRIN News June 2, 2016
What was agreed: Aid financing must be more efficient...
Pope Francis set to visit UN Agency to push fight against hunger
by Ines San Martin cruxnow.com June 1, 2016
By Ines San Martin /Vatican correspondent May 31, 2016 ROME– Pope Francis is set to visit Rome’s World Food Program on ...
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
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