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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.
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...
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....
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