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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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Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
Does community-driven aid need a makeover?
by Obinna Anyadike IRIN News April 27, 2015
CDD/R (the R stands for reconstruction) has three principal goals: improved socio-economic recovery, enhanced social cohesion and better governance. It’s regarded as particularly useful in post-conflict countries where infrastructure is often weak, institutions absent, order and society disrupted....
Rising toll on migrants leaves Europe in crisis; 900 may be dead at sea
by Jim Yardley New York Times April 20, 2015
ROME — European leaders were confronted on Monday with a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, as estimates that as many as 900 migrants may have died off the Libyan coast this weekend prompted calls for a new approach to the surging number of refugees crossing from Africa and the Middle East....
Deforestation in the Amazon aggravates Brazil’s energy crisis
by Mario Osava Inter Press Service April 13, 2015
In Brazil water and electricity go together, and two years of scant rainfall have left tens of millions of people on the verge of water and power rationing, boosting arguments for the need to fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest....
World Health Day 2015: Five food safety tips
by Judy Stone Forbes April 7, 2015
Last week’s post on antibiotic resistance in the environment, promoted by herbicides and spread by dust storms from factory farms is a good segue into this week’s observance of the World Health Organization’s Safe Food Day. We also just had news of an outbreak of antibiotic resistant Shigella ...
Overpopulation, overconsumption—in pictures. How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be...
by The Guardian April 1, 2015
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Weed killer, long cleared, is doubted
by Andrew Pollack New York Times March 27, 2015
Thirty years ago, an Environmental Protection Agency committee determined that the popular weed killer Roundup might cause cancer. Six years later, in 1991, the agency reversed itself after re-evaluating the mouse study that had been the basis for the original conclusion....
W.H.O report links ingredient in Roundup, the world’s most popular weedkiller, to cancer
by Reuters New York Times March 20, 2015
The organization’s cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto herbicide Roundup, was “classified as probably carcinogenic to humans.” It also said there was “limited evidence” that glyphosate was carcinogenic in human...
Banana workers’ strike highlights abuses by corporations in Costa Rica
by Diego Arguedas Ortiz Inter Press Service March 18, 2015
A strike that has brought activity to a halt since January on three major banana plantations on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast, along the border with Panama, has highlighted the abuses in a sector in the hands of transnational corporations and has forced the governments of both countries t...
Haitian leader’s power grows as scandals swirl
by Frances Robles New York Times March 16, 2015
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps he would take if he ever left the music business and became the president of Haiti....
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