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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.
Low food prices but poor still go hungry
by Obi Anyadike IRIN News January 14, 2016
Global food prices are at their lowest level in years, but thanks to the exceptionally strong US dollar poor people in developing countries suffering severe climate shocks are seeing no benefit....
Food firms slow to address twin scourges of undernutrition and obesity. Nutrition index says food and drink industry moving too slowly in providing he...
by Sam Jones The Guardian January 13, 2016
Ali Khumal holds up a photo of himself when he worked as a driver for ISAF forces in Afghanistan. The Taliban accused him of aiding the enemy and he was forced to flee with his family to Indonesia. Photo: © Jessica Sallabank/IRIN.SeeGlo...
Briefing: All you need to know about sieges in Syria
by IRIN January 12, 2016
At precisely the same time as aid lorries pulled into the besieged Syrian village of Madaya on Monday, too late to save those who had already starved to death, convoys also entered the besieged areas of Fua and Kefraya....
Syrian government to allow aid, loosening the stranglehold on the starving city of Madaya
by Katherine Mackenzie Inter Press Service January 8, 2016
The world’s clogged refugee system
by Jonathan Vit IRIN News January 4, 2016
"At a global level, extreme poverty is mainly concentrated in rural areas. This is particularly true in Africa, where the increasing number of conflicts is intensifying the effects of rural poverty." Angolan farmer. Photo: © Louise Redvers/IPS...
Military conflicts threaten to undermine battle against rural poverty
by Thalif Deen Inter Press Service January 1, 2016
At a global level, extreme poverty is mainly concentrated in rural areas. This is particularly true in Africa, where the increasing number of conflicts is intensifying the effects of rural poverty." Angolan farmer. Credit: Louise Redvers/IPS...
The most unconventional weapon in Syria: Wheat
by Annia Ciezadlo Washington Post December 19, 2015
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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....
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