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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.
UN says lag in confronting climate woes will be costly
by Justin Gillis New York Times January 16, 2014
Nations have so dragged their feet in battling climate change that the situation has grown critical and the risk of severe economic disruption is rising, according to a draft United Nations report. Another 15 years of failure to limit carbon emissions could make the problem virtually impossible to s...
World Bank is criticized for Honduran loan to a Honduran palm-oil company engaged in a violent conflict with farm workers over land tenure
by Elisabeth Malkin New York Times January 10, 2014
MEXICO CITY — The World Bank ombudsman issued a stinging critique Friday of the bank’s private-sector arm over a loan to a Honduran palm-oil company engaged in a violent conflict with farm workers over land tenure....
Food and the city
by IRIN News December 18, 2013
With the vast majority of population growth taking place in towns and cities, according to the UN, aid agencies are adapting their food security responses to better fit into urban contexts. An increasing number of tools and innovations are becoming available to help with this effort, but humanitaria...
Refuge: Stories from the Syrian crisis
by Kevin Sullivan Washington Post December 14, 2013
Dania Amroosh wears a Hello Kitty shirt, tiny heart-shaped earrings and her hair in cute little pigtails. She looks like any other 7-year-old, except for the jagged scars on the bridge of her nose and across her chin....
Pope Francis denounces ‘trickle-down’ economic theories in critique of inequality
by Zachary A. Goldfarb and Michelle Boorstein Washington Post November 26, 2013
Pope Francis on Tuesday sharply criticized growing economic inequality and unfettered markets in a wide-ranging and decidedly populist teaching that revealed how he plans to reshape the Catholic Church. ...
Growing clamor about inequities of climate crisis
by Stephen Lee Myers and Nicholas Kulish New York Times November 16, 2013
WARSAW — Following a devastating typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines, a routine international climate change conference here turned into an emotional forum, with developing countries demanding compensation from the worst polluting countries for damage they say they are already sufferi...
A jolt to complacency on food supply
by Justin Gillis New York Times November 11, 2013
For a look at what climate change could do to the world’s food supply, consider what the weather did to the American Corn Belt last year. ...
20 milion in Mideast to get polio vaccine
by Donald G. McNeill Jr New York Times November 11, 2013
Health officials will try to get polio vaccines to more than 20 million children across the Middle East to contain a major outbreak there, the World Health Organization and Unicef announced last week. The region was polio-free for 10 years, until a Pakistani strain was detected in sewers in Egypt in...
Climate change seen posing risk to food supplies
by Justin Gillis New York Times November 1, 2013
Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found. ...
Development aid from 15 top donors may be up slightly this year, but will still be below 2010 level
by IRIN News October 24, 2013
Aid from the top 15 global donors - all from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) - is estimated to reach US$127 billion by the end of 2013, reversing the aid declines of the last two years, according to projections from the Aus...
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