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Preventing Famine – Interview with WFP Deputy Chief, Valerie Guarnieri
In this important interview, the Deputy Chief for the U.N. World Food Programme, Valerie Guarnieri, warns of the ramifications of the CoVid-19 pandemic, climate change, and the need for political will by states and private contributions to prevent famine in the near future. Ms. Guarnieri, a seasone...
Blast puts Lebanon at Risk for Widespread Food Crisis
Peter Morris, Nutritionist and Long-term USAID Expert Leads WHES
The editorial staff of World Hunger Education Service recently sat down and interviewed Peter Morris for his insights about progress in international aid, hunger, nutrition and pandemics. Mr. M...
World Public Health Nutrition Association Offers $10,000 Prize in Writing Contest
WPHNA Article Writing Contest for its journal, World Nutrition. No cost to enter. Deadline February 10, 2021. Winners will be chosen for Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, North America, and Europe. See wphna.org ...
José Andrés Helps the Nats Turn D.C.’s Baseball Stadium Into a Community Kitchen
World Central Kitchen will prepare thousands of free meals at Nationals Park...
Public health movement leader David Sanders dies at 74
Sanders, who worked mainly in Zimbabwe and South Africa, influenced the public health movement in India significantly....
Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits
Across the US, recipients of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - sometimes referred to as food stamps - are able to get more by shopping at farmers markets, where the value of their benefits is matched or supplemented by other funds. But a technical issue with the payment proce...
This App Delivers Leftover Food To The Hungry, Instead Of To The Trash
Goodr has created an ap that has diverted nearly a million pounds of food in Atlanta from landfills–and into kitchens. Goodr is a food-waste management company that redirects surplus food from businesses to nonprofits that can share it with those who are food insecure....
Want to save the world from hunger? Start by not wasting food, shoppers told
The World Food Programme has launched a social media movement, #RecipeforDisaster, with the aim of making the public in the UK more conscious of the food waste they generate....
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power....
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