Opinions
Solving Dietary Issues Through Public Private Partnerships: An Example from the Field
October 19, 2018 Every October, World Food Day is celebrated around the globe. Unfortunately, hunger is increasing, not decreasing. After a period of decline, world hunger is on the rise again. Today, over 820 million people are suffering chronic undernourishment [1]...
Solving Hunger?
October 10, 2018 The good news is that the battle against hunger is slowly but surely being won [1]. Before the stones and arrows start flying my way, I hasten to point out that the progress is not everywhere and it is not all the time. The long-term trends seem ...
12 Things We Can Agree On about Global Poverty
There's a lot of heat on the topic of global poverty, but fundamentally a lot of agreement, too. Here is our attempt at a brief consensus position. We welcome agreement and opposition in the comments section below!...
Overcoming the ‘Double Burden’ of Malnutrition
August 17, 2018 Despite the fact that obesity is often discussed in this country as though it’s an individual failing, mounting evidence illustrates that the United States’ rising obesity epidemic is more likely a societal problem tied to rising economic inequality. Why? Because one ...
Poverty to Early Marriages and Early Marriages to Poverty: The Endless Chain in Rural Communities in Cameroon
July 23, 2018 Child marriage is a violation of child rights, and has a negative impact on physical growth, health, mental and emotional development, and education opportunities. While regional disparities exist, child marriage has significantly decreased from 47 per cent (2006) to 27 per...
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 reform how the United States provides food aid overseas. The arguments have been largely the same for over 15 years, and the...
A Perspective from Cameroon: Hunger, Poverty, and Terrorism in the North
May 30, 2018 Hunger and poverty are similar concepts which have often been used interchangeably. Hunger is a state of disability or weakness caused by lack of food or the desire to eat. Poverty is the state of being poor. Hunger is one of the consequences of poverty. These are some of th...
What We Know About Youth – and What We Don’t
Over the past several years, the development community has made a lot of assumptions about youth and their motivations, but without a lot of hard data to inform our programming. RTI has a new survey that sheds some light on youth motivations. (Click the link to read Ms. Davies' article on the Ch...
Hungry on Campus
Student hunger does not end at high school graduation. Food insecurity is plaguing our college campuses, with thousands of students each year skipping meals, going to bed hungry and suffering in class. (Photo: Harold O. Levy)...
Be Part of the Solution to Senior Hunger and Loneliness
September 10, 2017 By Jane Sandwood Over a quarter of adults over the age of 65 live alone in America, with 79% of these being women. What’s even more of a concern is that ...
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