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Researcher exposes the reality of food insecurity in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Massey University's Dr. Rebekah Graham found that a growing number of people experience food insecurity. "Subsequently, inequality and poverty in Aotearoa/New Zealand has grown at an extraordinary rate. The divide between the wealthy and everyone else has grown faster than in any oth...
Hunger: The brutal reality
Useful op ed for young people trying to understand what global hunger is and why it exists....
Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment
Low-income and minority households are more likely to live in neighborhoods exposed to higher levels of water and air pollution. Perhaps it’s time to start thinking about environmental poverty as an additional dimension of poverty....
Q&A: The World Bank’s pivot to fragile states
The World Bank is taking steps to move earlier into conflict-affected and fragile countries with more funding, more staff, and a mandate to focus on prevention, according to the institution’s fragility, conflict, and violence director....
March 15 is International School Meals Day
Since its launch in 2013, it has brought together teachers and students, policy makers, school cooks, chefs, food and nutrition professionals, schools and communities, charities, businesses and health professionals from around the world to talk about the importance of school meals and its impact on ...
6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger
Investing in women and girls will play a huge role in ending global hunger. Get to know why they’re at the forefront of the development agenda and how everything from goats to the promise of a school meal are being used to maximize their potential to change the world....
Rural Women Are Essential to the Struggle Against Hunger
Rural women make up more than a quarter of the world’s population and 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force, according to UN Women....
The mother is the last to eat in developing countries
More than 120 million women in developing countries are underweight. Given that women are typically in charge of their household's food production, experts say this female-hunger is due to gender inequality. #IWD...
Bill And Melinda Gates Pledge $170 Million To Women’s Economic Empowerment
“When money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.”...
VIDEO: Four Famines-Fragility, Resilience, and the Role of International Development
More than 20 million people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are facing famine conditions and possible starvation. It has been called the largest humanitarian crisis the world has seen in decades. Watch to learn more....
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