Opinions
George McGovern: A friend to the hungry
(RNS) Former Sen. George McGovern was a friend to anyone concerned about the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the world, always making hunger a top concern, even when the political winds did not favor that fight as a topical concern. ...
How blaming the West hides war on women
The targeting of Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot nearly two weeks ago by a Pakistani Taliban assassin, brought back memories of my teenage years in Tehran, where theocratic zealots were similarly in control....
The untouchables: both presidential candidates neglect poor people in the their debate
In hopes of embarrassing President Obama, several right-wing news organizations took a renewed interest on Tuesday in a well-reported speech Mr. Obama delivered in 2007 to a conference of ministers at Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia. ...
Twitter and the onslaught of social media in food and nutrition (my life in 140 characters or less!)
(September 25, 2012) I admit it. I tweet. I like Twitter. I like the fact that it is quick, brief (less than 140 characters), and it is a conduit to provide so much content on the internet. Twitter is agnostic. It works on web browsers, in third party applications on android and even in the walled g...
Vitamin A wars: the downsides of donor-driven aid
Surely one of the most precious of human dreams is to become rich and famous by doing good for others. And what could do more good than eradicating global malnutrition? Subtle variations on that theme have muddled the field of international nutrition for decades....
Balancing food, weather and population
The drought that has hit the United States and other grain-producing nations could be global warming or just a one-season aberration....
Poor visibility:The mainstream media needs to step up its reporting on poverty as a campaign issue
If you listen to the experts, the presidential election comes down to one thing: the economy. The job market is awful, and both of the major party candidates talk a lot about what they propose to do to strengthen the middle class....
World hunger: the problem left behind
THE drought-induced run-up in corn prices is a reminder that we’re nowhere near solving the problem of feeding the world....
We won the War on Poverty, then lost the peace. If America could eliminate most serious poverty in the United States in the 1960s, surely we could do ...
When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty in January 1964, the poverty rate was over 19 percent. By 1972 it had fallen to less than 12 percent, and it stayed there for most of the 1970s....
Pat Kutzner And Helping People in the United States Understand People Who Are Poor and Hungry
This issue is in honor of Pat Kutzner, the founder of the World Hunger Education Service (WHES) 24 years ago and the editor for 20 years of Hunger Notes. This issue is about development education, which was her life’s work, specifically, education about the poorest people in the world, who are ...
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