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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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Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?
by Megan Rowling PlanetArk February 25, 2015
Among Ghana's small-scale farmers, there's a saying that if your cocoa crop fails, you may as well go back and tend your oil palm.That's because oil palm is more resistant to pests and diseases, and provides a regular harvest throughout the year - as long as it is looked after properly, which is rar...
Where and why food prices lead to social upheaval
by Cullen S. Hendrix and Stephan M. Haggard Washington Post February 22, 2015
Between 2000 and 2011, prices for most globally traded commodities more than doubled. Since cresting in early 2011, however, oil and industrial metals prices have halved. As the saying goes, however: What’s that got to do with the price of eggs? Not much. Unlike other commodities, global food pric...
Battle to feed the world pits small farmers against big agriculture. Do small-scale farmers hold the key to fulfilling global goals on hunger and pove...
by Mark Anderson The Guardian February 19, 2015
Dotted along the narrow path that skirts the edge of Beatrice Alvitsa’s house in Shimanyiro, a green Kenyan valley near the border with Uganda, are dozens of millet plants, each protected by a carefully assembled fence made of sticks. “These keep the chickens and other animals out,” she says, ...
War punishes Gaza. Half a year after devastating hostilities, life in the region seems worse than ever. Thousands remain displaced, internal violence ...
by William Booth Washington Post February 13, 2015
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Amid complaints in India, a real estate deal in Manhattan
by Stephanie Stall and Louise Story New York Times February 9, 2015
Last Sept. 28, a group of retired military officers demonstrated at Jantar Mantar, a historic site in New Delhi. “Though we are old veterans, we still have the strength to challenge your atrocity,” read the placard of one protester, who was leaning on a cane.Towers of secrecy: Streams of wealth ...
Pope addresses right to food in address to 500 experts
by Colleen Barry Associated Press February 7, 2015
MILAN (AP) — Pope Francis emphasized the right to food as fundamental in a video address Saturday to 500 experts starting work on a wide-ranging document aimed at raising awareness and proposing solutions to issues including hunger, obesity and food waste...
Developing countries lose an estimated $990 billion dollars annually in illicit financial flows
General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church January 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The developing world saw a record $991 billion leave its countries due to corrupt practices and corporate tax evasion in 2012, according to a new report by Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Because of this massive non-taxed loss of illicit financial flows, developing countries l...
Official responses to the world food crisis in light of the human right to food
January 29, 2015
d Uwe Kracht (February 11, 2009) Soaring world food prices, the increasing competition of biofuel production with food production1, and the growing awareness of the impacts of climate change have put the world food problem squarely back on the global development agenda. This is therefore a rare oppo...
With pollinator declines, millions at risk of malnutrition
Seed Daily January 28, 2015
A new study shows that more than half the people in some developing countries could become newly at risk for malnutrition if crop-pollinating animals -- like bees -- continue to decline....
New report urges Western governments to reconsider reliance on biofuels
by ustin Gillis New York Times January 28, 2015
Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank....
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