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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.
Richest 1 percent will own more than rest combined by 2016, Oxfam report says
by Al Jazeera America January 19, 2015
More than half the world's wealth will be owned by just one percent of the population by next year as global inequality soars, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday...
As aid reaches Syrians, U.N. chief says withholding food is a war crime
by Somini Sengupta and Nick Cumming-Bruce New York Times January 14, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the United Nations said on Thursday that the warring parties in Syria were committing war crimes by withholding food from civilians. He called for all sides to lift their sieges immediately and unconditionally “as a confidence-building gesture” ahead of peace talks...
South American commodity boom drives deforestation and land conflicts
by Nick Miroff Washington Post January 1, 2015
BOGOTA, Colombia — A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fueling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile....
The soil: Silent ally against hunger in Latin America
by Marianela Jarroud Inter Press Service December 19, 2014
SANTIAGO , Dec 19 2014 (IPS) - Latin America and the Caribbean should use sustainable production techniques to ensure healthy soil, the basic element in agriculture, food production and the fight against hunger....
2014 was deadliest year for migrants, international group says
by Nick Cumming-Bruce New York Times December 16, 2014
GENEVA — The year 2014 was the deadliest for migrants on record, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday, calling for political leadership and concerted international action to tackle the causes of “desperation migration.”...
New report shows discrimination against women is major cause of persistent hunger
by Hunger Notes December 9, 2014
The 2015 Hunger Report, When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger, released by Bread for the World Institute, identifies the empowerment of women and girls as essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the United States “We have made great strides in reduci...
Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for US tables
by Richard Marosi Photography & video by Don Bartletti Los Angeles Times December 8, 2014
A Times reporter and photographer find that thousands of laborers at Mexico's mega-farms endure harsh conditions and exploitation while supplying produce for American consumers....
World Food Program suspends food aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
by Tom Miles Reuters December 1, 2014
GENEVA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A lack of funds has forced the United Nations to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday....
Every dollar spent on childhood nutrition can save up to $166, new study finds
by Bjorn Lomborg The Guardian November 28, 2014
For more than a year we have been analysing the issue of childhood nutrition (along with a large number of other topics that go into the post-2015 discussion). Nutrition is obviously one of the most critical issues for development. Both children and adults need a good quality diet, but, like others ...
Democratizing the fight against malnutrition
by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu Inter Press Service November 27, 2014
ROME, Nov 27 2014 (IPS) - There is a new dimension to the issue of malnutrition – governments, civil society and the private sector have started to come together around a common nutrition agenda. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the ...
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