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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.
UN: 15-year push ends extreme poverty for a billion people. Ban Ki-moon hails achievements of millennium development goals but warns world still riven...
by Sam Jones The Guardian July 6, 2015
The millennium development goals (MDGs) have driven “the most successful anti-poverty movement in history” and brought more than a billion people out of extreme penury, but their achievements have been mixed and the world remains deeply riven by inequality, the UN’s final report (pdf) on the g...
The humanitarian economy: Where is all the money going?
by Christian Els and Nils Carstensen IRIN News July 1, 2015
Over the years, Europe and the USA have been the largest donors to the formal aid industry - press the play button below the graphic to see them take turns claiming the biggest share. Public generosity sometimes tops that of governments (think Haiti and the tsunami), while other donors, especially f...
Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects
by Nathanael Johnson Grist June 25, 2015
A plea for bees (video) Dennis vanEnglesdorp TED June 2008. In my last piece I made the case that the rumors of honeybee extinction have been greatly exaggerated, but honeybees are still suffering larger than us...
A road map for eradicating world hunger
by Beth Gardiner New York Times June 24, 2015
LONDON — A lot has changed in Ethiopia since hundreds of thousands of people died in the famine of the mid-1980s. Rates of undernourishment have plummeted in the past 25 years, child mortality is down by two-thirds and 90 percent of children go to primary school....
Pope Francis, in sweeping encyclical, calls for swift action on climate change
by Jim Yardley and Laurie Goodstein New York Times June 18, 2015
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday called for a radical transformation of politics, economics and individual lifestyles to confront environmental degradation and climate change, blending a biting critique of consumerism and irresponsible development with a plea for swift and unified global ac...
60 million people fleeing chaotic lands, UN says
by Somni Sengupta New York Times June 18, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, an unprecedented global exodus that has burdened fragile countries with waves of newcomers and littered deserts and seas with the bodies of those who died trying to reach safety....
Inequality blocks further reduction in child mortality in Latin America
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Service June 9, 2015
The progress that Latin America has made in reducing child mortality is cited by international institutions as an example to be followed, and the region has met the fourth Millennium Development Goal, which is to cut the under-five mortality rate by two thirds....
U.N. reports about 200 million fewer hungry people than in 1990
by Rick Gladstone New York Times May 27, 2015
The number of hungry people globally has declined from about one billion 25 years ago to about 795 million today, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the United Nations reported Wednesday....
Laissez faire water laws threaten family farming in Chile
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Service May 27, 2015
Family farmers in Chile are pushing for the reinstatement of water as a public good, to at least partially solve the shortages caused by the privatisation of water rights by the military dictatorship in 1981....
Latin America’s relative success in fighting hunger
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Service May 27, 2015
The Latin American and Caribbean region is the first in the world to reach the two global targets for reducing hunger. Nevertheless, more than 34 million people still go hungry....
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