Interviews

Video Interview about Food Aid with Eline de Looijer

July 8, 2026

In the new video by WHES, Food aid expert Eline de Looijer  explains to Hunger Notes about the basics of international humanitarian food aid. https://www.worldhunger.org/what-is-food-aid/...

Village Enterprise, a Nonprofit, Champions the “Graduation Model” to End Hunger

May 8, 2026

May 8, 2026    In the mid 2000s, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) pioneered a new approach for helping the very poor to grow out of poverty phase by phase, an approach called the "Graduation Approach....

Interview: Edesia’s Maria Kasparian & Specialty Nutrition Foods

April 20, 2026

April 20, 2026      The WHES board met with and interviewed Maria Kasparian, expert about Plumpy’Nut which has become one of the most recognizable tools in the fight against severe acute malnutrition among young children around the wor...

photo credit, Concern Worldwide

Interview with Dominic MacSorley, Former CEO of Concern Worldwide

January 1, 2023

This October, WHES had the honor and opportunity to interview Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide since 2013.  Dominic, who is retiring as CEO at the end of 2022, has spent 40 years with Concern, starting his work as a volunteer on the Thai-Cambodia border,...

Peter Morris, Nutritionist and Long-term USAID Expert Leads WHES

August 3, 2020

The editorial staff of World Hunger Education Service recently sat down and interviewed Peter Morris for his insights about progress in international aid, hunger, nutrition and pandemics.  Mr. M...

Pandemics and Hunger:  Part 2 of Our Interview with Dr. Ron Waldman

June 14, 2020

 June 2020    Exclusive content from the World Hunger Education Service. .  Dr. Ron Waldman reflects on lessons of pandemic preparedness and response, the roles of the USG and UN and recommended references. Hunger Notes editors Peter Morr...

Pandemics, Crisis and Hunger: An Interview with Dr. Ron Waldman Part 1

June 7, 2020

June 7, 2020        Hunger Notes editors Peter Morris and Steve Hansch interviewed pandemic expert Dr. Ron Waldman (RW), Professor of Global Health at George Washington School of Public Health and long-time point person for international health in emergenci...

An Interview with David Nabarro

by WHES November 7, 2019

Margie Ferris Morris and Peter Morris interviewed Dr. David Nabarro on a recent trip to Switzerland. David currently is the Founder and CEO of 4SD, a social enterprise based in Geneva. He has been a long-time advocate of nutrition and food security issues and was the recipient of the 2018 World ...

Frances Davidson, noted international expert in nutrition dies

by Margie Ferris Morris, Chair, WHES May 14, 2019

2019   Frances Davidson, an international expert in nutrition passed away Sunday May 12, 2019 in Washington, DC after a sudden and severe brain aneurysm. Hunger Notes conducted an interview with Frances in 2012 after she retired from working with the United States Agency for Internatio...

Hunger Fighters Interview- Andrew Green and Amruta Byatnal, Malnutrition Deeply

June 26, 2018

Hunger Fighters Interview:  Andrew Green and Amruta Byatnal This is part of a series we are doing about real people who are working to fight hunger and poverty in various ways around the world. This episode focuses on the creators of Malnutrition Deeply, a website that provides up to...

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