Opinions
Hungry in a Prosperous Nation, America
July 28, 2026 By Nadira Kabir The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in history, a global agricultural powerhouse that produces enough food to feed millions beyond its borders. Yet beneath this abundance lies a growing contradiction: more middle‑class Americans ar...
U.S. Food Aid (Part 1): Reflections about Food Aid by Long-Term Practitioner
July 7, 2026 by Mara Russell This is the first in a series of articles by Hunger Notes about the U.S. Food for Peace (FFP) Program. "Food for Peace Title II Non-Emergency Programs: What are they and Why are they needed?" ...
Opinion: School Meals to Combat Hunger
May 27, 2026 by Nadira Kabir Rethinking Summer Break: School Meals, Hunger, and American Families Earlier this month, I saw a news segment about public schools in Loudoun County, Virginia — a large suburban school district near Washington, D.C. — exploring the possibi...
Opinion: “No One Should Go to Bed Hungry: A New Era of Global Need”
May 8, 2026 The U.S. nominee to head the World Food Programme, and currently the Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Luke J. Lindberg, published an opinion in this week's Newsweek Magazine, arguing that: "Today, hunger is rising, with almost 320 million people facing acute food in...
Global Food Crisis Opinion in Irish Times
April 30, 2026 The Executive Director of Concern Worldwide, Dominic Crowley, published in the Irish Times to amplify the findings of the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, noting how "in total, 266 million people in 47 countries/territories exper...
“Coming Food Crisis” Predicted in Financial Times Essay
April 18, 2026 In a major Weekend Essay, Adam Hanieh, writing in the Financial Times British newspaper on April 17 2025, warns that the current Middle East conflict will cause a world food crisis. Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. The wo...
Former International Food Aid Expert Reflects on U.S. SNAP
Former federal worker Nadira Kabir reflects on her experience navigating access to the SNAP program (U.S. domestic food assistance) after unemployment and pregnancy. "SNAP exists because hunger doesn’t wait for ...
In Case You Missed It: “Without investment in innovation, volatility will send farmers like me backward”
In an opinion editorial for the Des Moines Register second-year corn and soybean farmer Sarah Tweeten explores the pressures US farmers currently face including price drops, cost increases for equipment and inputs like fertilizer, trade uncertainty, debt, and the shutd...
The end of my career in global health
The election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was a gut punch, but I did not know then that the real destruction of the world as I knew it would begin to unfold in January 2025, when Trump began the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAI...
Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID
The US Government Agency that Brings Aid - USAID USAID, started in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy. Estimates are that some 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance . The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a part of USAID, identifies fo...
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