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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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60 million people have been forced to flee war
by UNHCR December 18, 2015
GENEVA, Dec 18 (UNHCR) – With almost a million people having crossed the Mediterranean as refugees and migrants so far this year, and conflicts in Syria and elsewhere continuing to generate staggering levels of human suffering, 2015 is likely to exceed all previous records for global forced displa...
Lack of food means Syrian children face ‘irreversible’ health issues, says U.N. The U.N.’s World Food Program warns that funding problem...
by Harriet Grant The Guardian December 14, 2015
Syrian children across the Middle East are facing “irreversible” health problems caused by severe food shortages, as the World Food Programme (WFP) continues to struggle to meet the needs of even the most vulnerable refugees....
Delegates at climate talks focus on saving the world’s forests
by Justin Gillis New York Times December 10, 2015
LE BOURGET, France — The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the world’s energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: a sweeping effort to save the world’s forests....
USDA report warns climate change likely to impede progress on global food security
by security USDA December 2, 2015
PARIS, Dec. 2, 2015 — Climate change is likely to impede progress on reducing undernourishment around the world in the decades ahead, according to a major scientific assessment released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on global food security and its implications for the United S...
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say. Experts point to damage caused by erosion and pollution, raising major concern...
by Oliver Milman The Guardian December 2, 2015
The world has lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 years, with potentially disastrous consequences as global demand for food soars, scientists have warned. ...
In the Amazon, the ‘world’s most endangered tribe’ has few options
by Dom Phillips Washington Post December 1, 2015
The Awa tribe is caught between a diminishing forest and the dangers posed by the contemporary world. Photo: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post...
Latin American legislators find new paths to fight hunger
by Aramis Castro and Milagros Salazar Inter Press Service November 19, 2015
Peruvian lawmaker Jaime Delgado reads out the final declaration of the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Lima. From left to right: John Preissing, FAO representative in Peru; Ecuadorean lawmaker María Augusta Calle; and Uruguayan legislator...
Cotton is one of the most important fibre crops in the global textile industry. But many of the cotton farmers at the bottom of the very lucrative gar...
by Martine Parry The Guardian November 19, 2015
Globally, up to 100 million smallholder farmers depend on cotton for their income. They are, however, at the very bottom of the garment industry chain, largely invisible and without a voice, ignored by a trillion-dollar industry that cannot exist without their produce....
Can farms be good for nature without being organic? The organic-or-not debate ignores a crucial further option. Setting aside tracts of land for wildl...
by Karl Mathiesen The Guardian November 18, 2015
Non-organic farmers can do much more to foster wild plants, butterflies and bugs without giving up on pesticides, according to new research, but organic farms still bring the largest benefits for wildlife....
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