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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.
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...
World Bank Facts & Figures
by Bread for the World Institute April 8, 2016
Overview The World Bank was established in 1946 to provide long-term assistance for economic development. It mobilizes funds contributed by member governments and raised in capital markets to lend to developing countries. Although the World Bank is technically an agency of the U...
Overpopulation, overconsumption in pictures
by The Guardian April 1, 2016
Sprawling Mexico City rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap of natural habitat ...
El Niño upsets seasons and upends lives worldwide.WHO estimates that changes induced by El Niño are putting 60 million people at increased risk of m...
by Henry Fountain New York Times March 19, 2016
In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Niño in a generation. In some parts of the world, the problem has been not enough rain; in others, too much. Downpours were so bad in Paragu...
The strange and surprising debate over how to help a malnourished kid
by Emily Sohn NPR March 13, 2016
It used to be common knowledge: Malnourished kids need more protein to thrive. Then came a scathing paper in the Lancet in 1974 called "The Great Protein Fiasco." Filled with sarcasm, it argued that the nutrition community's fixation on protein was a waste of time and money....
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