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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.
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....
TIAA-CREF, U.S. investment giant, accused of land grabs in Brazil
by Simon Romero New York Times November 16, 2015
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — As an American investment giant that manages the retirement savings of millions of university administrators, public school teachers and others, TIAA-CREF prides itself on upholding socially responsible values, even celebrating its role in drafting United Nations principles fo...
Thirty million children, far from home. Here are three of them.
by Jake Silverstein New York Times November 5, 2015
I have two photos on my desk. The first shows a child, a girl of about 10. She is standing behind an enormous pile of her family’s belongings, which have been tightly packed for a long journey. Her face is blank with uncertainty, but she strikes a bossy pose — one hand on her hip, the other plan...
Terrace farming–an ancient indigenous model for food security
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Service October 21, 2015
Terrace farming as practiced from time immemorial by native peoples in the Andes mountains contributes to food security as a strategy of adaptation in an environment where the geography and other conditions make the production of nutritional foods a complex undertaking....
Climate change and conflict: it’s complicated. Sharing scarce water resourses will be major issue.
by Philippa Garson IRIN News October 20, 2015
Whether dramatic changes in weather patterns drive conflict has long been the subject of great debate. Did a series of droughts precipitate the collapse of the Khmer Empire in the early 15th century, for example? Or was the Little Ice Age in the mid-17th century a leading cause of the rampant warfar...
2015 Global Hunger Index released
International Food Policy Research Institute October 13, 2015
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries....
2015 Global Hunger Index released
International Food Policy Research Institute October 13, 2015
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries....
The Right to Food and Nutrition 2015 released
FIAN International October 12, 2015
With malnutrition affecting more than 2 billion people and obesity rates rising, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2015 underscores the artificial separation of nutrition and sustainable food systems, which is resulting in vertical, technical and product-based solutions that ignore human determi...
The Right to Food and Nutrition 2015 released
FIAN International October 12, 2015
With malnutrition affecting more than 2 billion people and obesity rates rising, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2015 underscores the artificial separation of nutrition and sustainable food systems, which is resulting in vertical, technical and product-based solutions that ignore human determi...
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