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United States Cancels Household Food Security Report
In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995. For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households. On September 20, 2025, the USDA announced tha...
The End of Hunger — Essays by Leaders
The Anthology, The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019, Illinois: InterVarsity Press), includes 29 short, readable chapters about the problem of hunger, early childhood nutrition needs, and recommendations for the future, with vignettes included of Nepal, Uganda, ...
Hunger Hotspots Report, Summer 2025
Hotspots for elevated hunger and malnutrition during the summer of 2025 were highlighted for Sudan, Gaza, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali in the new report produced by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, along with the World Food Program, with support from the European Union and the Global...
Famine Early Warning System Restarted
Correction & Update: Hunger Notes reported on March 19 about the cancellation of the important, 40-year-old Famine Early Warning System program, created and funded by USAID. While true at the time...
World Hunger Day
May 28 is World Hunger Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about global hunger and inspire action to address food insecurity and malnutrition. World Hunger Day has been celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty since 2011, and this year targets the importance of "sowing resil...
Why the Destruction of USAID Increases Hunger and Harms America
March 21, 2025 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the agency created by Congress in 1961 to lead America’s development and humanitarian assistance, has been decimated by President Trump’s January 21 Executive Order freezing U.S. fore...
Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine
WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine: https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...
Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny
Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response: a Basic Guide By Fred Cuny, with Rick Hill (West Hartford, CN: Kumarian Press 1999) This basic, extremely readable text about famine prevention and relief remains a preferred textb...
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris. 2021. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assista...
The World Can Feed Itself – It Needs the Will
In this opinion piece, Dominic MacSorley, former CEO of Concern Worldwide writes from the Sudan about the world hunger situation. He says: "Gaza and Ukraine have been most prominent in the public eye but they form only a fraction of the 117 million people experiencing acute food insecurity as ...
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