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Gaza Humanitarian Food Aid – A Report by Senators Van Hollen & Merkley

October 6, 2025

A detailed report by U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) and Jeff Merkley (Oregon) resulting from a fact-finding CODEL mission to Israel, Gaza’s border, the West Bank, Jordan, and Egypt is a review of their observations of destruction and forced displacement.  (Van Hollen, Merkley Report Fo...

United States Cancels Household Food Security Report

by Kathy Goss, WHES Board Trustee October 5, 2025

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 that t...

The End of Hunger — Essays by Leaders

https://www.ivpress.com/the-end-of-hunger-ebook?srsltid=AfmBOootE5RoYWD8C0TVLCZSx23JoApP48O2iyOamQ7nOxMWWvsDfKXo October 4, 2025

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, Malawi  ...

Hunger Hotspots Report, Summer 2025

July 5, 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

May 29, 2025

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, FEWS NET has been re-established. You can access it here. The May 2025 prediction report is a...

World Hunger Day

May 28, 2025

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

by Lani Marquez March 21, 2025

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. foreign assistance. Why should America...

Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine

January 14, 2025

WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine:  https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...

 

The World Can Feed Itself – It Needs the Will

by Dominic MacSorley Irish Examiner January 31, 2024

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 ...

New World Food Programme Director says “Not on my watch”

by Helen Murphy Devex Newswire July 21, 2023

Cindy McCain, the new Director of WFP, says she will not let the widespread  corruption of food aid take place in the future.  Recently arrived, Ms. McCain, has had to shut down food programs in Ethiopia over the widespread misuse of food aid resources by local authorities....

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