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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.
Mexico targets gang that infiltrated the mining industry
by Paulina Villegas New York Times March 5, 2014
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has stepped up its effort to crack down on one of the most powerful and feared criminal organizations in the country, with arrests and seizures this week aimed not at drug trafficking or extortion but at the gang’s lucrative infiltration of mining and smuggling iron ore to C...
Crop diversity decline threatens food security
by Mark Kinver BBC News March 3, 2014
Fewer crop species are feeding the world than 50 years ago - raising concerns about the resilience of the global food system, a study has shown...
Syria crisis: Thousands waiting for food in Yarmouk (video)
by BBC News February 25, 2014
The BBC's Lyse Doucet has travelled to Yarmouk, the Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus, Syria, where people are desperate for food....
UN focuses on faltering goals: water, sanitation, energy
by Thalif Deen Inter Press Service February 19, 2014
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 2014 (IPS) - When the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their deadline in 2015, there will still be a critical setback: millions of people in the developing world without full access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and electricity in their homes. Con...
How much aid is required to end extreme poverty?
by John McArthur OpenCanada.org February 18, 2014
You may be looking for a page on the new site of the Canadian International Council (soon to be found at thecic.org), or an archived article that no longer exists....
Lawlessness is undoing effort to save Honduran forests
by Elizabeth Malkin New York Times February 12, 2014
COPÉN, Honduras — Nine men were harvesting mahogany deep in the woods here when Alonso Pineda and his son appeared, carrying shotguns. An arrest warrant hangs over the two for clearing the forest illegally, but on that day they posed as its protectors....
Cuba’s reward for the dutiful: Gated housing
by Damien Cave New York Times February 11, 2014
HAVANA — In the splendid neighborhoods of this dilapidated city, old mansions are being upgraded with imported tile. Businessmen go out for sushi and drive home in plush Audis. Now, hoping to keep up, the government is erecting something special for its own: a housing development called Project Gr...
Breaking the cycle of youth unemployment and poverty
by IRIN News February 10, 2014
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also breaks down social cohesion and can be associated with higher levels of ...
Climate-induced migration creates perils, possibilities
by IRIN News January 20, 2014
For Pacific islands like Palau, Tuvalu and Kiribati, the implications of climate change are clear - and devastating. Already, these governments have begun to plan for a future in which entire populations have to relocate as their islands vanish under the rising sea. But climate change also threatens...
Mexicali has become Mexico’s city of the deported as US dumps more people there
by Nick Miroff Washington Post January 16, 2014
MEXICALI, Mexico — In this fertilizer-scented city opposite the alfalfa fields of California’s Imperial Valley, the deported sleep in parks, abandoned buildings and along the train tracks that run through town....
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