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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.
Climate-change aid to developing world difficult to track, report says
by Brian Vastag Washington Post May 20, 2011
In the 2009 Copenhagen climate accord, 21 developed nations and the European Union agreed to provide $30 billion over three years to help poorer nations adapt to climate change and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions....
Wikileak cables show race to obtain Arctic resources as ice retreats
by Meirion Jones and Susan Watts BBC News May 12, 2011
Secret US embassy cables released by Wikileaks show nations are racing to "carve up" Arctic resources - oil, gas and even rubies - as the ice retreats. They suggest that Arctic states, including the US and Russia, are all pushing to stake a claim. ...
Fast-growing Brazil tries to lift its poorest
by Juan Forero Washington Post May 11, 2011
The industrial complex and port here are a showcase of the region’s economic might, employing 55,000 workers and attracting billions in investments. But a couple of miles down the road, Netildes Delvina Soares, 47, lives “with much suffering,” as she put it, in a wood-plank hut without plumbin...
Administration planning $1 billion debt relief for Egypt
by Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post May 7, 2011
The Obama administration has decided to provide about $1 billion in debt relief for Egypt, a senior official said Saturday, in the boldest U.S. effort yet to shore up a key Middle East ally as it attempts a democratic transition. The aid would be part of a major economic aid package that also inclu...
More deaths on Syria’s ‘day of defiance’
by Al Jazeera May 6, 2011
Activists claim that up to 30 people have been killed in Syria where thousands have taken to the streets for another day of anti-government rallies, dubbed a "day of defiance"....
Commodity prices fall sharply as investors sell
by BBC News May 5, 2011
Oil prices were down 10% at one stage, with US light, sweet crude ending the day below $100 a barrel....
Food prices driven up by global warming, study shows. Scientists warn that farming practices must be adapted to a warmer world and rises in global pop...
by guardian.co.uk May 5, 2011
Global warming has already harmed the world's food production and has driven up food prices by as much as 20% over recent decades, new research has revealed....
businessman becomes magnet for anger and dissent
by Anthony Shadid New York Times April 30, 2011
BEIRUT, Lebanon — When protests erupted in March in the forlorn Syrian border town of Dara’a, demonstrators burned the president’s portraits, then set ablaze an unlikely target: the local office of the country’s largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, whose owner sits at the nexus of anger a...
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