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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.
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 to...
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....
UN has failed Syria: NGOs
by Joe Dyke IRIN March 12, 2015
A "report card" compiled by more than 20 aid organisations working in and around Syria – including Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision – gives the Security Council and the wider world a fail grade for attempts to stop the killing and to get aid to those most in need....
Alienation and violence: Impact of Syria crisis report 2014
by ReleifWeb March 10, 2015
“Syria: Alienation and Violence, Impact of the Syria Crisis Report” produced by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR) with the support of UNDP and UNRWA, reveals the extent of dramatic setbacks in human and economic development as Syria has been ravaged by war. After four years of armed-c...
What refugees really think of aid agencies
by Louise Redvers IRIN News March 5, 2015
Aid agencies are partial, unaccountable and potentially corrupt, and they fail to meet refugees’ most pressing needs....
UN: World eating too much sugar; cut to 5-10 percent of diet
by Maria Cheng Associated Press/Myway March 4, 2015
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Is Syria conflict a case study for climate change and hunger-related conflict?
by Geoffrey Mohan Los Angeles Times March 4, 2015
Climate change contributed to the severity of a record-setting drought that led to agricultural collapse in Syria's breadbasket region, pushing rural residents into crowded cities where the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad began, according to a study published this week in the journal Pr...
Mandating food insecurity: The global impacts of rising biofuel mandates and targets
by Timothy A. Wise and Emily Cole Global Development and Environmental Institute at Tufts University March 4, 2015
Expanding demand for biofuels, fed significantly by government policies mandating rising levels of consumption in transportation fuel, has been strongly implicated in food price increases and food price volatility most recently seen in 2008 and 2011-2012. First-generation biofuels, made from agricul...
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