Student Resources
Salud (Health) Everywhere, a Valuable Educational Site
June 9, 2026 Hunger Notes recommends students and practitioners to refer to and read the website "Salud Everywhere", which is an expanding source about nutrition, humanitarian aid and health. See: ...
This Week’s May 28 was World Hunger Day
May 28, 2026 May 28 was World Hunger day, inspiring many to take action to reduce malnutrition. The overarching theme for this year's global campaign is ...
New Food for Peace (FFP) Food Aid Programming by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
May 24, 2026 BACKGROUND: The primary way that the United States government, working with nonprofits, has fought hunger and malnutrition around the world has been through the U.S. Food for Peace program (originally Public...
New Lancet Journal Commission Report about Health Conflict & Forced Displacement
May 21, 2026 The new study, Health in a World of Crises and Impunity, by the Johns Hopkins - Lancet Commission about Health, Conflict & Forced Displacement, was pub...
Action Against Hunger 10 Global Hunger Hot Spots
May 6, 2026 This year, as in the past, the international aid agency "Action Against Hunger" (also known as ACF, or Action Contre la Faim) released their annual hunger report, titled "1...
New Global Report on Food Crises, 2026
April 26, 2026 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), jointly published on April 24 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Global Network Against Food Crises, estimates that some 35.5 million children were acutely malnourished across 23 nutr...
Lebanon’s 2026 Conflict and Displacement Increase Malnutrition
April 8, 2026: An estimated 1.65 million people in Lebanon are vulnerable to increased food shortages and malnutrition due to the combination of conflict, bombardment, displacement and denied access of food shipments. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon has caused signif...
Huub Lelieveld Honored with World Food Prize for Fighting Food-Borne Illness
The 2026 World Food Prize was awarded to Dr. Huub Lelieveld for his long-term dedication to establishing standards that prevent diseases transmitted through food. Dr. Lelieveld, a Dutch food scientist, promoted the standardization of technologies such as food irradiation and non‑destructive testin...
Yu Ying Public Charter School Students Investigate Hunger
World Hunger Education Service was invited to meet with a group of 5th graders at Yu Ying Public Charter School in Northeast Washington, DC to talk with them about hunger in the world. Fifth graders at Yu Ying are tasked with com...
Poetry & Hunger
The growing anti-hunger nonprofit Poetry X Hunger was founded in 2017 by Dr. Hiram Larew who is a retired director of international programs at the US Department of Agriculture and a poet. It operates as a component fund of Chesapeake Charities, which is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. ...
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