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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 significa...
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. T...
In Memoriam: Arthur Eugene ‘Gene’ Dewey, A Life of Service and Compassion
Gene Dewey, who passed away on February 22nd, was one of the great humanitarian leaders of his generation, inspiring many people and managing to move food and relief supplies to needed areas over the course of several decades. He was also an institution builder, seeing...
New Global Survey of Food Resilience, by the Economist
Economist Impact's inaugural Resilient Food Systems Index (RFSI), supported by Cargill, benchmarks food system resilience across 60 countries using 71 indicators organized into four pillars: a...
Threat of Child Malnutrition in Iran Amid U.S.–Iran Conflict
The U.S.–Iran war that began today, 28 February 2026, threatens to sharply worsen malnutrition among children under five in low-income urban neighborhoods of strike zones (Tehran, Isfahan, Kermanshah) and in rural border provinces (e.g., Sistan-Baluchestan and Kurdistan) that already...
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future
As people get wealthier, historically, they eat more meat even though it is inefficient. the new book, "Meat" by Bruce Friedrich, examines the implications of the world's dietary choice. He lays out how six calories going into a chicken result in 1 calorie in chicken meat. He calls this "fanta...
Essentials of Public Health Communication: A Valuable Book and Curricula
Around 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, "Essentials of Public He...
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...
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