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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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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 ...
6 graphs explain the world’s top ten emitters
by Mengpin Ge, Johannes Friedrich and Thomas Damassa World Resources Institute November 25, 2014
Our ability to harness ever-expanding amounts of data is completely transforming our understanding of environmental problems and solutions. Our Climate Insights blog series leverages data from CAIT 2.0, WRI’s climate data explorer, to shed light on the many dimensions of climate change that shape ...
WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security.
by Asit Ranjan Mishra Live Mint November 22, 2014
A deal between India and the US to end the stalemate over the Bali trade package has raised the possibility of a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes by the end of next year....
US-India agreement on stockpiles of food revives a trade deal
by Neha Thirani Bagri New York Times November 13, 2014
MUMBAI, India — India and the United States reached an agreement on Thursday over food stockpiles, removing a major obstacle to a global trade deal that has been stalled for months....
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. ...
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