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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.
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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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World hunger falls, but number of undernourished remains ‘unacceptably high’—joint UN report
by UN News Centre November 13, 2014
16 September 2014 – More than 800 million people – or one in every nine on the planet – suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released today stated that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people by 2015 is still within reach....
Bolivian law makes child labor legal for children as young as 10. Change was demanded by child workers in order to establish greater legal protections...
by John Otis National Public Radio November 11, 2014
In the Bolivian city of El Alto on a recent day, youngsters shout out the destinations of departing buses to lure passengers....
UN panel issues its starkest warning yet on the dangers of global warming. Failure to reduce emissions could threaten society with food shortages, ref...
by Justin Gillis New York Times November 2, 2014
COPENHAGEN — The gathering risks of climate change are so profound that they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations report. ...
A vendor in New Dehli sells vegetables from a cart. But where do most of the world’s hungry live? Photo: Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images
by Daniela Pastrana Inter Press Service October 17, 2014
MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 2014 (IPS) - The images filled the front pages of Mexico’s newspapers: 61 half-dressed state policemen kneeling, with their hands tied, in the main square of the town of Tepatepec in the central state of Hidalgo, while local residents threatened to burn them alive....
World Food Day: Ten myths about world hunger
by Carla Kweifio-Okai The Guardian October 17, 2014
Chronic hunger has a range of causes, but global food scarcity is not one of them. According to the World Food Programme, we produce enough to feed the global population of 7 billion people. And the world produces 17% more food per person today than 30 years ago, and the rate of food production has ...
A new UN body to combat global malnutrition?
by Elena L. Pasquini Devex October 14, 2014
Tentatively called “U.N. Nutrition,” the new entity will be headed by UNICEF and the World Food Program, according to well-placed sources within civil society groups attending this week’s Committee on World Food Security, or CFS, in Rome. Over the weekend, the sources also participated in work...
Understanding hunger
by Molly Anders Devex October 7, 2014
"The images we use to [illustrate] hunger — the emaciated, starving child who hasn’t eaten for days or weeks — no longer capture the whole picture," Bjørn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center told Devex last month on the sidelines of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition ...
Developing countries blast rich-world farm subsidies at Rome talks
by Chris Arsenault Reuters October 6, 2014
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wealthy countries are still subsidizing their farmers at the expense of developing nations, undermining market access for some of the world's poorest producers, two farm ministers told a Food and Agriculture Organization meeting on Monday....
We’ve killed off half the world’s animals since 1970
by Christopher Ingraham Washington Post September 30, 2014
The new Living Planet Index report from the World Wildlife Fund opens with a jaw-dropping statistic: we've killed roughly half of the world's non-human vertebrate animal population since 1970....
Humans of Syria: Objects of pity or attractive prospective employees?
by Daniel Elkan IRIN News September 28, 2014
Objects of pity or attractive prospective employees? The Syrians landing on the beaches on the Greek island of Lesvos have some serious CVs. IRIN aid policy editor Imogen Wall spoke to some about the professional skills they have to offer Europe, and their career ambitions....
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