Student Resources
U.S. Food Aid (Part 6): A Timeline of U.S. Food Aid
July 20, 2026 This is the sixth posting in an effort to inform the public and USDA about Food For Peace lessons and directions. Below is a timeline of selected milestones in the history of U.S. food aid sent overseas. World Hunger Education Service compiled this from a range of sources with i...
Water Insecurity and Malnutrition: An Overlooked Connection
June 24, 2026 by Kirsten Roe Often, when people think of hunger or food insecurity, they may think about food availability (e.g., sufficient food), access (e.g., able to afford food or access it in the market), and nutrition (e.g., sufficient nutrients to prevent stunting, wasting, or ob...
Strengthening Nutrition Action in “Field Exchange”
June 16, 2026 The latest (April 2026) edition of the "Field Exchange" journal, by the Irish Emergency Nutrition Network, about combatting malnutrition in emergencies includes the following findings: Relapse-inclusive costing of simplified CMAM protocols: Lessons from Mali (Original Article by Ni...
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: https://saludeverywhere.com/en/health-in-humanitarian-crises/nutrition-in-humanitarian-acti...
Roundtable: The Future of America’s Aid for Basic Education of Children
May 14, 2026 The Future of American Foreign Assistance for Basic Education was a roundtable held on June 12, 2025 among some forty-eight international education experts convened together over Zoom by the Global Coalition for Education-US, the Basic Education Coalition, the University of Massa...
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 completing a capstone project called Exhibition. The Exhibition is a group...
“Essentials of Public Health Communication”: Valuable Curricula
February 22, 2026 A round the world, a key shift during the past few decades in combatting malnutrition has been the adoption of social marketing, communications and "behavior change" to improve diets, caretaker behavior, and recognition of failures in child growth. The technical book, "Ess...
CSIS Reviews Implications of the Final U.S. Hunger Report
A new Jan. 6 report from the think tank, CSIS, reviews the recent U.S. Government study about hunger in America, noting that this until-now annual food security or hunger report will no longer be conducted by the US Government which deemed it political and inducing fear. Caitlin Welsh, the author of...
Articles about Malnutrition & Field Programs, “Field Exchange”
October 2025 The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), based out of Dublin, Ireland, has published groundbreaking, field-level technical research about attacking malnutrition for the last few decades in their free journal, "Field Exchange." The latest edition, Issue 76 (October 2025) showcases co...
Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity
Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity As part of its mission to educate about hunger, WHES has put together an index of publicly available lesson plans on hunger and food insecurity. Whether you are a school teacher, a homeschooling parent, a daycare worker, a parent or guardian, or another typ...
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