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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.
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....
More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty
by Dylan Matthews Vox June 8, 2014
As solutions to global poverty go, "just give poor people money" is pretty rock solid. A recent randomized trial found that Kenyans who received no-strings attached cash from the charity GiveDirectly built more assets, bought more goods, were less hungry, and were all-around happier than those who d...
UN says there is unprecented demand for food aid
by Associated Press Washington Post September 23, 2014
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Land-reclamation campaign by indigenous Mapuches scorches southern Chile
by Nick Miroff Washington Post June 8, 2014
ERCILLA, Chile — The Mapuche warriors of southern Chile were so fierce, they conquered the conquistadors, driving out the Spanish invaders in the 1600s....
New report reveals how poor women and men understand food rights
by Institute of Development Studies June 2, 2014
Does more talk of the right to food and more action on food security amount to more accountability for hunger? Not necessarily, according to the latest findings from the 'Life in a time of food price volatility' research project....
Opportunity’s knocks: Tereza Sedgwick is seeing the economy from the bottom up, where the fastest-growing job in America, nursing aide, is also ...
by Eli Saslow Washington Post May 31, 2014
MARIETTA, Ohio — She had made it as far as the career school's parking lot for the December training class and the February class, only to drive away each time in a tangle of anxiety and self-doubt. Now it was March, and here Tereza Sedgwick came again: dressed in the mandatory class uniform of re...
Rethink needed on humanitarian funding for national NGOs, now only 0.2 percent of total humanitarian aid
by IRIN News September 15, 2014
With humanitarian aid effectiveness high on the agenda of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, there is much talk of how to reform humanitarian financing to make it more inclusive of national NGOs, but risk aversion will slow progress, say analysts....
Egypt’s new strongman, Sisi knows best
by David D Kirkpatrick New York Times May 24, 2014
CAIRO — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army officer soon to be Egypt’s president, promises to remedy Egypt’s crippling fuel shortage by installing energy-efficient bulbs in every home socket, even if he has to send a government employee to screw in each one....
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