Opinions
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 ...
Hidden Hunger: The Food Crisis of the United States
August 10, 2017 By Jane Sandwood Although there is a huge push to help reduce world hunger, there are less initiatives surrounding the issue of hidden hunger. This is defined by the World Health Organization as a condition t...
Why 2017 May Be the Best Year Ever
In this Op Ed Nicholas Kristof discusses recent advances in cutting poverty and hunger....
Pope Francis’ vision of an inclusive global economy
Repeated statements on the economy, at times with stinging words, mark the teaching of Pope Francis from the beginning of his pontificate. In His first Apostolic Exhortation Evagelii Gaudium in 2013 He sharply condemns "an economy of exclusion an...
Twenty years of editing Hunger Notes
December 22, 2016 By Lane Vanderslice I have edited Hunger Notes for 20 years. I started with editing one issue in 1995, and then, when the founder of the World Hunger Education Service (WHES), Pat Kutzner retired in 199...
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