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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.
On World Hunger Day 2020, Malnutrition Still Leading Cause of Death in World
by Karen McVeigh The Guardian/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation May 27, 2020
Even in an unprecedented pandemic that affects the whole world, malnutrition is still the leading cause of death and disease in the world. Let's renew our commitment to eradicate malnutrition. ...
Coronavirus Triggers World Food Crisis
by By Yaroslav Trofimov in Dubai and Lucy Craymer in Hong Kong The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2020
Although World harvests were good this year, food systems, distribution, and prices have broken down. This breakdown places the world's most vulnerable countries at risk....
Global Nutrition Report 2020 Reports that Malnutrition is Leading Cause of Mortality and Morbidity
by Development Initiatives, Bristol, UK 2020 Global Nutrition Report: Action on equity to end malnutrition. May 12, 2020
2020 Global Nutrition Report: Action on equity to end malnutrition was released 12 May 2020. The report states that one in nine persons around the world suffers from hunger (820 million) and one in three persons is overweight or obese (also a form of malnutrition). In a forward to the report by Da...
Food security in the time of coronavirus: A Eurasianet briefing
by Eurasianet Eurasianet May 7, 2020
This briefing explores government policy and food provision in the Caucasus and Central Asia as COVID-19 upsets farming and trade networks around the world....
Predicting COVID-19 Impacts on Global Food Security
by William G. Moseley World Politics Review May 12, 2020
MacAlester College's William Moseley predicts Covid-19 impacts on macro-level, global food security levels and food systems by employing the supporting components of the standard food security framework-- access, availability and utilization-- in the following article:...
As Food Waste and Insecurity Spike, ReFED’s COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund Aims to Spark Change Beyond the Pandemic
by Jared Kaufman Food Tank May 7, 2020
As COVID-19 upends the global food supply chain and disrupts economies around the world, the threat of food waste looms particularly large....
Addressing COVID-19 impacts on fish and aquatic food systems
by World Fish World Fish May 2, 2020
World Fish examines the impacts of COVID-19 on food security and fisheries...
23 Organizations Eliminating Food Waste During COVID-19
by Aaron Mok Food Tank April 29, 2020
In honor of #StopFoodWasteDay, here are 23 organizations rescuing food waste during #covid19....
Podcast: BBC The Food Chain: Death by coronavirus or hunger?
by BBC BBC April 23, 2020
The tough question being faced by many in developing countries....
WFP Warns of Increased Famines and Humanitarian Catastrophe this Year in Global Food Crises Report
by Peyvand Khorsandi World Food Programme April 22, 2020
The World Food Program (WFP) has released its Global Food Crises Report. David Beasley, the Executive Director of the WFP warns that, without assistance, the number of people "pushed to the brink of starvation" will double to 265 million by the end of 2020. ...
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