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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.
How fear drove world rice markets insane
by Dan Charles NPR November 2, 2011
Nothing is more basic and simple than food. Yet it comes to us courtesy of a long, complicated supply chain that spans the globe....
Population growth taxing planet’s resources; expanding demands are depleting seas, fresh water and forests
by Juliet Eilperin Washington Post October 24, 2011
The president is using his authority to try to put Democrats on the side of angry voters...
Bolivia scraps Amazon road project protested by indigenous people
by BBC News October 21, 2011
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has scrapped plans for a road project in the Amazon that had triggered protests by indigenous people....
Aid policy: The rise of the new donors
by IRIN News October 19, 2011
IRIN has been covering Syria's humanitarian crisis from its outset. A look at some highlights. Can the creaking international aid system reform before history overtakes it?...
Malaria deaths fall over 20% worldwide in last decade
by BBC News October 18, 2011
There has been a fall of just over 20% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says....
Speculation on food commodities may harm the hungry
by Marilyn Geewax NPR October 16, 2011
Speculators in the agricultural commodities markets are forcing grocery prices to rise too quickly and erratically, according to some top economists marking World Food Day on Sunday....
Developing countries out in the cold at the World Trade Organization
by Ravi Kanth Devarakonda AllAfrica.com October 14, 2011
Geneva — Developing countries, particularly from Africa, are concerned about attempts by industrialised nations to change the negotiating dynamic of the World Trade Organization....
Congress passes trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
by Zachary A. Goldfarm and Lori Montgomery Washington Post October 12, 2011
Congress resoundingly approved long-stalled trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama late Wednesday, authorizing the most significant expansion of trade relations in nearly two decades....
Feeding nine billion people in a sustainable way will be one of the greatest challenges our civilization has ever faced, new report says
by Justin Gillis New York Times October 12, 2011
Trying to tap into the best thinking about the future of global agriculture, as I have tried to do in my work as a reporter, can be an exercise in frustration. Many groups and many bright people go at the problem, but not many of them go at it in a holistic way....
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