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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
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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...
Syria’s crackdown on protesters becomes dramatically more brutal. Tanks and troops enter towns and villages for the first time as scores of peop...
by Katherine Marsh, Matthew Taylor and Haroon Siddique Guardian.co.uk April 25, 2011
The Syrian government's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations has escalated dramatically, with tanks rolling on to the streets for the first time and troops reported to have opened fire in several towns and villages across the country....
The nutrition community mourns the death of Michael Latham
by United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition April 24, 2011
Michael Latham died on April 1, 2011 at age 82 of pneumonia which set in during hospitalization after an operation. He is survived by his two sons Miles and Mark, his wife Lani, and mourned as well by hundreds who were touched by a remarkable life dedicated to serving others and making the world a b...
Michael Latham, nutritionist who advocated breast-feeding, dies at 82
by Emma Brown Washington Post April 20, 2011
Michael Latham, a leading nutritionist and tropical public health specialist who staunchly opposed the marketing of infant formula as a replacement for breast-feeding in developing countries, died April 1 in Boston of pneumonia. He was 82....
Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable
by David Brown Washington Post April 13, 2011
About 2.6 million babies are born dead each year, a largely ignored and silently grieved loss of life, about half of which could be prevented....
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