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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.
COVID-19 threatens food security of low-income Canadians
by Wolf Depner Vancouver Island Free Daily April 13, 2020
Stats Can finds many Canadians do not have financial resources to sustain ‘well-being’...
As aid groups scramble to contain COVID-19, malnutrition set to increase
by Andrew Green Devex April 6, 2020
This article describes the challenges that Humanitarian Aid organizations will face in maintaining food security programs in the many pre-CoVid-19 emergencies around the world. ...
We Need a Global Stimulus Package to Avoid a COVID-19 Hunger Crisis
by Food Tank Food Tank April 5, 2020
Food security and nutrition focused think tank, Food Tank, writes about the need for a global stimulus package to support food security during the COVID-19 crisis....
IICA establishes Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas
by IICA The Voice of St. Lucia April 5, 2020
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has established a Food Security Council for the Americas. The Council will monitor the impact of coronavirus on food security in the region....
Preventing global food crisis caused by COVID-19
by Felippa Ann Amanta The Jakarta Post April 5, 2020
The Center for Indonesian Policy Studies advocates for lowering trade barriers to help Indonesia diversify import sources to hedge the trade risks if other countries decide to stop exports....
Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how COVID-19 may Impact Food and Nutrition Security
by Stuart Gillespie and Alan Whiteside International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) April 1, 2020
Given the speed at which COVID-19 is spreading, we must draw on policy and practice experiences from past epidemics—each is unique, but they offer many common lessons. AIDS was another once-in-a-generation pandemic. In this blog post, Stuart Gillespie and Alan Whiteside share their own and othersâ...
How Will Coronavirus Affect Our Food? The Pandemic and Our food Systems, a Dispatch From Mexico
by Jose Luis Chicoma Food Tank March 30, 2020
As COVID-19 spreads, it will have both an immediate and long-term impact on Mexico's food system and the world's....
COVID-19 and Food Security
by Center for Strategic and International Studies Center for Strategic and International Studies March 30, 2020
The Center for Strategic and International Studies provides a roundup of information related to COVID-19 and Food Security....
On Resilience: Hunger, Food and Disease Outbreaks
by Steve Hansch WHES March 15, 2020
March 15, 2020 The current coronavirus (COVID-19) global outbreak – pandemic – may very well have implications for hunger and food security. This would be particularly so in poorer, developing countries where large urban populations may depend on fragile supply chains for food. We...
In Remembrance of Dr. Peter Salama
by Peter Morris WHES February 3, 2020
Many of us in emergency nutrition field were shocked to hear that Dr. Peter Salama passed away last week. Peter died suddenly and unexpectedly of natural causes. He was 51 and leaves behind his wife and three children. At the time of his death, Peter, a medical epidemiologist from Australia, was w...
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