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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.
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....
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy
Hunger Notes May 25, 2015
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy...
Salvadorans flock to honor beloved Archbishop on path to sainthood
by Elisabeth Malkin New York Times May 24, 2015
SAN SALVADOR — Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of El Salvador’s capital on Saturday to celebrate the beatification of Óscar Romero, an archbishop who walked with his people in poverty and was killed after denouncing it....
Honor comes late to Óscar Romero, a martyr for the poor
by Elisabeth Malkin New York Times May 23, 2015
SAN SALVADOR — MarÃa de los Angeles Mena Alvarado knelt at the tomb of the slain archbishop and wept.She had come to the crypt of the city’s cathedral to pray for a cure for the diabetes that was threatening her eyesight and weakening her kidneys. “I feel that, yes, he can perform a miracle,â...
Agriculture and cattle ranching threatening global rainforests
by Vanessa Dezem Bloomberg News May 21, 2015
Lots of cattle. The expansion of the herd in the Brazilian Amazon is emblematic of global economic forces that are driving deforestation to support the growth of farms, ranches and other commercial enterprises, according to a report released Thursday in Berlin by the Club of Rome, a research group t...
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