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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.
Freedom House releases report showing decline in democracy worldwide
by Hunger Notes January 13, 2011
(January 13, 2011) Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom House's annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in the nearly 40-year...
Tunisia’s and Ben Ali’s corruptions: the Wikileaks revelations
by Pierre Tristam About.com January 12, 2011
Tunisia is an odd, secular dictatorship. Its president is elected by popular vote to five-year terms. But the president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and his ruling party, also choose their opponents, vet their campaign platforms, regulate their campaign posters and messages, and limit the election seas...
The ‘food bubble’ is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won’t save us
by Tom Philpott Grist January 12, 2011
For years — even decades — Earth Policy Institute president and Grist contributor Lester Brown has issued Cassandra-like warnings about the global food system. His argument goes something like this: Global grain demand keeps rising, pushed up by population growth and the switch to more meat-heav...
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report
by BBC News January 6, 2011
Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report....
The coming hunger: Record food prices put world ‘in danger’, says UN
by Sean O'Grady The Independent January 6, 2011
Food riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet's poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high according to the United Nations....
No police in Mexico town after last officer kidnapped
by BBC News December 28, 2010
The Mexican border town of Guadalupe has been left with no police force after the last officer was kidnapped....
Ernesto Sabato, 99: Writer led investigation of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
by Peter Eisner Washington Post May 1, 2010
Ernesto Sabato, 99, a celebrated Argentine writer and intellectual who was chosen to lead an official investigation of thousands of killings by the military during the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s, and whose long life included careers as a physicist, public servant and artist, died April 30 at h...
How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis (opinion)
by Frederick Kaufman Foreign Policy April 27, 2010
Demand and supply certainly matter. But there’s another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed....
Syrian security forces kill dozens of protesters
by Tara Bahrampour Washington Post April 23, 2010
BEIRUT — Syrians who took to the streets Friday after prayers knew they were defying threats from their president....
Fighting nears Tripoli, where Quaddafi keeps grip on power
by Kareem Fahim and David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times February 23, 2010
BAIDA, Libya — As rebellion crept closer to the capital and defections of military officers multiplied, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi called on thousands of mercenaries and irregular security forces on Wednesday to defend his bastion in Tripoli, in what residents said was a desperate and dangerous turn ...
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