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Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet
Lisa Palmer's book, Hot, Hungry Planet, The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, presents seven case studies of individuals working in different continents in the race against hunger, noting that "with a growing population, the demand for rice and other cereals ...
Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine
The newly released Time Magazine review (Feb. 20, 2025) of "Women of the Year" features Claire Babineaux-Fonteno for her nation-wide advocacy to end hunger. (https://time.com/7216387/feeding-am...
USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations
American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work. In early 2025 there has also been claims -- and false information -- by Congress and social media about an overall lack of transparency about this aid. The primary or lead aid agency for the US Government is the Unite...
Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine
WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine: https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...
WHES Undertakes Research about Attacks Against Food & Nutrition in Humanitarian Aid
This month, toward the end of 2024, World Hunger Education Service launched a broad study about the patterns, trends and extent of violent attacks and threats against aid programs delivering food and nutrition solutions in famines, crises, war zones, and for displaced populations. The results ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris. 2021. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assista...
The Gap in Funding for Programs to Stop Hunger
The nonprofit, Action Against Hunger, February 22, 2023 released their global report "2023 Hunger Funding Gap Report -- What's Needed to Stop the Global Hunger Crisis." It reports that hunger is higher today than any time in recent decades, and that 50 million people are on the verge of famine. ...
U.S. Anti-Hunger Efforts Reflected by Congressional Hunger Center
On February 22, the Congressional Hunger Center hosted a gathering of 50 staff and Hunger Fellows to look at their achievements over the decades in addressing hunger in the United States. A key topic was success in promoting local legislation to provide free meals in schools, and to build the mo...
USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals
The Washington Post recently reported that the USDA has announced new, more stringent, national nutrition standards for its school feeding program. This program reaches 30 million students at 100,000 schools nationwide. The new standards propose to lower sugars, fat and salt, while in...
Interview with Dominic MacSorley, Former CEO of Concern Worldwide
This October, WHES had the honor and opportunity to interview Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide since 2013. Dominic, who is retiring as CEO at the end of 2022, has spent 40 years with Concern, starting his work as a volunteer on the Thai-Cambodia border,...
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