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Key U.N. Updates Show Alarming Hunger Trends
Recent UN annual reports and updates about global hunger highlight several important issues and trends as we move into 2026: WFP will prioritize feeding 110 million in 2026 despite larger need: Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP...
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 wo...
A Crucible of Courage: A Review of Ken Isaacs’ “Running to the Fire”
Ken Isaacs spent more than three decades with Samaritan’s Purse, rising to executive vice-president and helping turn Franklin Graham’s organization into one of the largest Christian relief agencies on earth. In Running to the Fire he recounts that journey through a series of crisply tol...
Food Assistance Outlook Brief
FEWS NET released their Food Assistance Outlook Brief for October 2025. The monthly outlook briefs provide country-by-country information on hunger hot spots as well as and global trends. This brief focused on Guatemala and Mozambique. You can also watch the recorded video of the free public bri...
USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations Now Available from Third Parties
By: WHES Board (*Note this post was updated from its original Feb 18, 2025 version to add the two new pages with DEC resources.) American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work. In early 2025 there has also been claims -- and false inform...
Environmentally-Induced Displacement and Health/Nutrition — a Roundtable Review
A roundtable of two dozen experts, including leaders of key international NGOs, met at George Washington University to examine the global implications of environmentally-induced migration and health, in a context of declining aid. The report, Beyond Emerge...
United States Cancels Household Food Security Report
In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995. For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households. On September 20, 2025, the USDA announced tha...
The End of Hunger — Essays by Leaders
The Anthology, The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019, Illinois: InterVarsity Press), includes 29 short, readable chapters about the problem of hunger, early childhood nutrition needs, and recommendations for the future, with vignettes included of Nepal, Uganda, ...
Hunger Increases Even Further in The Sudan
August 28, 2025: Aid agencies estimate that malnutrition in Sudan increases in scale, depth and scope. Much of the reporting comes from the far western region of Darfur, where, between January and May 2025, North Darfur saw a 46% increase in children...
Universal School Meal State Policies’ Effects on Food Security
The U.S. School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are the largest child nutrition programs in America, providing nutritious meals to some 30 million children.1 The 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act helped improve the nutritional quality of school breakfast and...
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