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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.
How a peaceful political uprising happened in war-scarred Guatemala
by Joshua Partlow Washington Post September 5, 2015
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UN agency forced to cut food aid to 229,000 Syrian refugees
by Karin Laub Associated Press September 4, 2015
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The cash-strapped World Food Program has had to drop one-third of Syrian refugees from its food voucher program in Middle Eastern host countries this year, including 229,000 in Jordan who stopped receiving food aid in September, a spokeswoman said Friday....
Guatemalan president quits amid corruption scandal
by Joshua Partlow Washington Post September 3, 2015
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As tragedies shock Europe, a bigger refugee crisis looms in the Middle East
by Liz Sly Washington Post August 29, 2015
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Guatemala’s corruption investigations make swift strides
by Azam Ahmed New York Times August 25, 2015
GUATEMALA CITY — Just about every weekend for months, Jorge Castiglione, a 70-year-old engineer with a thinning ponytail, has gone to the Plaza de la Constitución here to support what has become a ritual in this nation: weekly protests calling for the resignation of the president and an end to po...
Expanding web of scandal in Brazil threatens further upheaval
by Simon Romero New York Times August 21, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO — The charges are nothing less than sweeping: Prosecutors say that Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, took as much as $40 million in bribes for himself and his allies, plundering Petrobras, the government-controlled oil company, while laundering money ...
Mexico’s anti-poverty programs are losing the battle
by Emilio Godoy Inter Press Service August 5, 2015
While most of Latin America has been reducing poverty, Mexico is moving in the other direction: new official figures reflect an increase in the number of poor in the last two years, despite the billions of dollars channeled into a broad range of programmes aimed at combating the problem....
Beyond brothels: Farms and fisheries are frontier of human trafficking
by Tracie McMillan NPR July 28, 2015
When the U.S. State Department released its annual human trafficking report on Monday, it told distressingly familiar tales of forced sex work and housekeepers kept against their will. But this year, one area got special attention: Slavery in the global supply chains of agriculture, fishing and aqua...
An additional $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty over a 15 year period will end chronic hunger, new UN estimates show
by Food and Agriculture Organization July 10, 2015
Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a new UN report says. This would average $160 an...
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