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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.
Eating leaves, and other ways besieged Syrians try to survive
by Rick Gladstone New York Times March 8, 2016
Medical workers in parts of Syria have been forced to let the wounded bleed to death for lack of bandages, and have opted to use catheter bags meant for urine to administer intravenous fluids to newborns because proper drip bags are gone.Expectant mothers in areas vulnerable to shelling and bombing ...
More than half a million could die as climate change impacts diet – report.New research shows global warming’s effect on the quality of food avail...
by Damian Carrington The Guardian March 3, 2016
Climate change could kill more than 500,000 people a year globally by 2050 by making their diets less healthy, according to new research published in the Lancet.The research is the first to assess how the impacts of global warming could affect the quality of the diets available to people and found f...
Berta Cáceres, indigenous activist, is killed in Honduras
by Elisabeth Malkin and Alberto Arce New York Times March 3, 2016
MEXICO CITY — An indigenous activist in Honduras who won a prestigious international environmental prize for fighting a dam project despite continued threats was assassinated on Thursday in her hometown, officials said....
Decline of pollinators poses threat to world’s food supply, report says
by John Schwartz New York Times February 26, 2016
The birds and the bees need help. Also, the butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles and bats. Without an international effort, a new report warns, increasing numbers of species that promote the growth of hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of food each year face extinction....
Pope Francis ends his Mexico tour praying for migrants at the U.S. border
by Joshua Partlow and Gabriela Martinez Washington Post February 17, 2016
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Overlooking the flood lights and barbed wire that line the U.S. border, Pope Francis on Wednesday quietly prayed for the migrants who have died during their journeys to America and later said a “humanitarian crisis” was prompting people worldwide to leave for other land...
La Via Campesina, buiding a international movement for food and seed sovereignty: An interview with general coordinator Elizabeth Mpofu
by Simone Adler Simone Adler February 16, 2016
Crouching out of sight, awaiting a smuggler’s signal that it was safe to cross a road near Los Corazones. With increasing vigilance, Mexican authorities have cracked down on illegal migrants. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times...
U.S. closing a loophole on products tied to slaves
by Ian Urbina New York Times February 15, 2016
WASHINGTON — President Obama will sign legislation this week that effectively bans American imports of fish caught by forced labor in Southeast Asia, part of a flurry of recent actions by the White House, federal agencies, international trade unions and foreign governments to address lawlessness a...
At Mass, Pope Francis embraces ‘misunderstood’ of Mexico
by Azam Ahmed and Jim Yardley New York Times February 15, 2016
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis came to the highlands of Mexico’s southern frontier on Monday to offer a pastoral embrace to the region’s impoverished indigenous people, expressing shame over discrimination and exploitation and honoring the legacy of a beloved local bishop w...
In Mexican slum, Pope Francis laments economic gap
by Azam Ahmed and Jim Yardley New York Times February 14, 2016
ECATEPEC, Mexico — Pope Francis stepped into the heartland of Mexican inequality on Sunday, presiding over an enormous outdoor Mass in the impoverished outskirts of the capital and urging the joyous crowd not to fall prey to the wealth, vanity and pride that can create “a society of the few, and...
Step by step on a desperate trek of migrants through Mexico
by Azam Ahmed New York Times February 8, 2016
ARRIAGA, Mexico — The police truck appeared suddenly, a glint of metal and glass. The migrants broke into a sprint, tripping over cracked pavement as an older woman sweeping her stoop urged them to hurry....
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