On Resilience
Veterans Day Lessons for Current Livelihood Crisis
Veterans Day commemorates the many millions of American soldiers who returned home from wars with uncertainty about their futures and livelihoods. Veterans have faced an extended transition period as unemployed workers seeking to enter an often transforming economy. A prime example was at the en...
A Biblical Surge of Miscommunication
On Language: In the popular media, including otherwise-intelligent talking heads and world leaders have invented new pretentious, uses for words that have little actual meaning. Chief among these are: "surge," "spike", "epicenter" and "biblical proportions." For example: the head ...
USAID Promotes Urgency as Pandemic Hides a Nutrition Crisis
USAID indicates that the pandemic is imperiling nutritional gains around the world and makes their work more urgent. ...
Pandemics and Hunger: Part 2 of Our Interview with Dr. Ron Waldman
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 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...
On Resilience: Hunger, Food and Disease Outbreaks
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...
The Impact of Unequal Wealth Distribution on Poverty Worldwide
September 29, 2019 While it is often said that more people were pulled out of poverty over the last century than in the whole history of mankind, there is still much work to do. Some numbers about Africa’s economy can seem encouraging at the surface level, but the harsh reality is that...
Debates About U.S. Food Assistance 2018
June 14, 2018 For more than a decade, a movement to reverse US policies for food aid has built momentum among some analysts and Europeans who have lobbied hard to change how the United States provides food aid overseas. The arguments have been largely the same for over 15 years, and the...
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