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World Food Programme using chatbots to monitor hunger in hard-to-reach areas

by Lynsey Chutel Quartz September 4, 2017

The UN’s World Food Program (WFP), has been experimenting with text and Facebook messenger chatbots to monitor food insecurity in hard-to-reach areas, turning smartphones and social media into lifelines for the most vulnerable of refugees....

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The Global Hunger Crisis Will Not Be Tweeted

by Carolyn Miles Foreign Policy Magazine August 17, 2017

Recent poll by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) showed that only 15 percent of Americans had “a lot” of awareness of the ongoing global hunger crisis....

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In pictures: The first 1,000 days of hunger

by BBC, UBELONG Photographers and Researchers BBC August 10, 2017

BBC has posted an educational photographic essay on the first 1000 days of hunger. Across Ghana, the irreversible effects of child malnutrition can be seen among thousands of children affected during their critical first 1,000 days of life. This is the time in a child's life that will determine thei...

A World Food Programme worker stands next to aid parcels that will be distributed to South Sudanese refugees at the airport in Sudan’s North Kordofan state. (Photo: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images)

Why It’s So Hard To Stop The World’s Looming Famines

by Courtney Columbus NPR August 6, 2017

Speaking with NPR's Audie Cornish on All Things Considered, he explained that politics and donor fatigue are two of the main causes....

Abshivay Hussein Maalin, 13, suffers from malnutrition and lives at an internally displaced person camp in Baidoa, Somalia. At least 155,000 Somalis have been displaced from their homes because of drought and instability and are living in temporary huts in Baidoa. (Photo: CNN)

This is what starvation looks like

by Jennifer Grubb CNN July 25, 2017

This picture gallery shows the human face of starvation.  More than 20 million people are facing famine in Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and neighboring countries....

Unmasking hidden hunger in the developed world

by Greg Garrett, GAIN The Econmonist Intellenge Unit, Food Sustainability Index July 18, 2017

The word hunger generally calls to mind starving children in developing countries. Unfortunately, this type of hunger is still very much a reality. However, malnutrition is much more complex. Many children who consume enough food, and even obese and overweight children, may be malnourished because t...

People queue as food is distributed in Old Fangak, in Jonglei state, one of the areas of South Sudan affected by food insecurity. (Photo : Sam Mednick/AP)

Poll reveals 85% of Americans oblivious to hunger in Africa and Middle East

by Hannah Summers The Guardian July 14, 2017

Less than a fifth of Americans are aware that extreme hunger threatens the lives of 20 million people in Africa and the Middle East, yet the overwhelming majority regard it as the most pressing global issue once they have been told......

PODCAST: People Are Starving

by Brian Hansen & Alesha Black Chicago Council on Global Affairs June 30, 2017

In the worst humanitarian crisis in seven decades, 20 million people face famine in South Sudan, northeast Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. On this week's Deep Dish, Alesha Black, director of the Council's Global Food and Agriculture Program, talks to Brian Hanson about the causes and reactions to this ...

Pedro Miguel locks, Panama Canal (Photo: Gonzalo Azumendi/Getty Images)

Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade

by Johanna Lehne & Laura Wellesley Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs June 27, 2017

Physical ‘chokepoints’ along trade routes are critical to global food security. The importance of these chokepoints and the risks of closure or disruption are increasing, but such risks and their potential impact remain largely overlooked. Currently, four out of five people live in countries tha...

Syrians fleeing conflict account for 12 million of the world’s displaced people (Photo: AFP via BBC)

UN refugee agency: Record 65.6 million people displaced worldwide

by BBC June 21, 2017

Yesterday was World Refugee Day and on that day "a record 65.6 million people are either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced across the globe, the UN refugee agency said."...

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  • World Hunger Education
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  • About WHES & Hunger Notes
    For the past 40 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
    • Advance comprehension which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on the world food problem
    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.

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