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World Hunger Day

by May 28, 2025

May 28 is World Hunger Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about global hunger and inspire action to address food insecurity and malnutrition.  World Hunger Day has been celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty since 2011, and this year targets the importance of "sowing resil...

2nd Annual International Food Aid Showcase, June 10 in Washington, D.C.

by May 28, 2025

George Washington University (GW), in Washington, D.C. will host a gathering of NGO and food experts on June 10, 2025, to share lessons about overseas food aid and look ahead.  It is co-sponsored by Counterpart International (an international NGO), the Alliance to End Hunger, and GW's Global Food I...

Wall of Fallen American USAID Staff

by S Hansch and P Morris, WHES May 28, 2025

Until early 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) showcased a memorial wall in the lobby of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, in the Ronald Reagan Building.  The Trump Administration had it torn down and removed on April 30, 2025 in the process of removing USAID both from the...

In Memoriam: The US Famine Early Warning System, Known as FEWS, as well as SERVIR

by Steven Hansch March 19, 2025

The program which many experts considered to be the most effective at stopping famines and starvation and arguably the single most valuable aid program of all time, has ended its 40 year run of success, as the White House shut it down, alongside hundreds of other global initiatives, without review, ...

Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid Unites Evangelicals for Aid

by March 13, 2025

A prayer vigil for foreign aid was held March 11, among some 50 Christians, at the Capitol Hill Presbyterian...

Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID

by Margie Ferris Morris February 14, 2025

The US Government Agency that Brings Aid - USAID USAID, started in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy.  Estimates are that some 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance      . The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a part of USAID, identifies fo...

Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book

by January 14, 2025

Book Review:    Roger Thurow’s Against the Grain:  How Farmers Around the Globe are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet (2024, Publisher:  Agate Surrey) American journalist, Roger Thurow, has written consistently about global hunger a...

Remembering Don Kennedy, Human Biologist

by November 4, 2024

Don Kennedy, who passed away four years ago, was founder of the  unique Human Biology program at Stanford University, where he served as a role model as arguably the most influential teacher of his generation, particularly teaching about intersections of biology, ecology and policies.  In addition...

Past World Hunger Prize Winners

by November 3, 2024

Thirteen winners of the World Hunger Prize issued an appeal on October 30,  2024 at the  Borlaug Dialogue gathering in Des Moines, Iowa.  The annual gathering, this year from October 29-31, showcased over 50 speakers from around the world, including the 2024 World Food Prize winners Dr. Geoffrey ...

Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize

by October 30, 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail:  The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Crown Publishers), which arr...

  • World Hunger Education
    Service
    P.O. Box 29015
    Washington, D.C. 20017
  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
    • Advance comprehension which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on the world food problem
    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.