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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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International food security assessment: Past progress and prospects through 2025
by Stacey Rosen and Birgit Meade Amber Waves October 5, 2015
In 1996, the United States, the European Community, and 184 other countries gathered at the World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome and pledged to reduce the number of food-insecure people by half by no later than 2015. This declaration emphasized improving the performance of the agricultural sectors, parti...
Life in the Islamic State: Spoils for the rulers, terror for the ruled
by Kevin Sullivan Washington Post October 1, 2015
The white vans come out at dinnertime, bringing hot meals to unmarried Islamic State fighters in the city of Hit in western Iraq....
Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change study says. Ten percent of land in 64 countries analysed is owned by indigenous ...
by Megan Rowling Reuters September 30, 2015
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change, researchers said. Access the report ...
Why world leaders dined on trash at the U.N.
by Peter Holley Washington Post September 28, 2015
There was nothing unusual about 30 world leaders, including French President François Hollande and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, sitting down Sunday for a meal prepared by some of the world’s most famous chefs....
Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vaults
by Alister Doyle Planet Ark September 22, 2015
Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said on Monday....
New test for Guatemala’s protest movement: Improving citizens’ lives
by Elisabeth Malkin New York Times September 16, 2015
GUATEMALA CITY — Shortly after 5 a.m. one day last week, a security guard opened the entrance of Roosevelt Hospital here to patients who had been lining up in the dark mountain chill for more than an hour....
Malnutrition linked to nearly half of deaths among under-fives. Global nutrition study claims poor diet affects 161 million children and 1.9 billion a...
by Clár Ní Chonghaile The Guardian September 16, 2015
Malnourishment affects one in three people worldwide and is linked to 45% of deaths among children under the age of five, according to a report on global nutrition that warns the “staggering” scale of the condition could undermine the sustainable development agenda without greater investment fro...
Kale or steak? Change in diet key to U.N. plan to end hunger by 2030
by Chris Arsenault Reuters September 10, 2015
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In trendy, hipster London or New York, it's all about juicing, vegan diets and snacking on kale crisps. Thousands of miles away, in Nairobi or Bogota, the middle classes are more likely to reach for roasted goat or a juicy steak....
World food prices fall sharply in August, extending slide
by Isla Binnie Reuters September 10, 2015
World food prices fell sharply in August, dragged down by ample supplies and external factors including a slump in energy prices and concerns about an economic slowdown in China, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday....
Women’s prospects limited by law in 155 countries, World Bank study finds. Two decades after Beijing declaration on gender equality, women’s e...
by Liz Ford and Mark Anderson The Guardian September 9, 2015
About 155 countries have at least one law that limits women’s economic opportunities, while 100 states put restrictions on the types of jobs women can do and 18 allow husbands to dictate whether their wives can work at all, according to a World Bank report that paints a stark picture of the enduri...
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