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New Food for Peace (FFP) Action by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
May 24, 2026 BACKGROUND: The primary way that the United States government, working with nonprofits, has fought hunger and malnutrition around the world has been through the U.S. Food for Peace program (originally Public Law...
Roundtable Summary: The Future of America’s Foreign Aid for Basic Education of Children
May 14, 2026 The Future of American Foreign Assistance for Basic Education was a roundtable held on June 12, 2025 among some forty-eight international education experts ...
Summary of Aid Agency Roundtable Meeting about the Duty of Care of National Staff
May 9, 2026 Increasingly aid agencies have argued for more decision- making, resources and active roles for "local", or national, actors in aid programs, including food, nutrition and other development and humanitarian efforts. At the same time, aid agencies have taken efforts to provide...
AI & Food Security Forum, at CSIS
May 5, 2026 The think tank, CSIS, held a forum on April 30, 2026 about "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Food Security," bringing together policymakers, agronomists, geospatial data scientists, representatives of multilateral ...
In Memoriam: Mohamed Warsame Dualeh
May 3, 2026 Dr. Mohamed Warsame Dualeh, a Somali physician, refugee-health leader, humanitarian official, and later diplomat, died on April 25, 2026 in Germany. He is survived by his wife, Marie Therese Lenz, and children, Amalie, Issa, and Edna. Among the positions he held during h...
New Global Report on Food Crises, 2026
April 26, 2026 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), jointly published on April 24 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Global Network Against Food Crises, estimates that some 35.5 million children were acutely malnourished across 23 nutr...
India’s Conquest of Famine
April 19, 2026 In the weeks since Paul Ehrlich's passing away, there have been many articles about the change that have occurred since his publication of the Population Bomb, where he warned about trends in risk of f...
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 signif...
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...
Debate over Child Malnutrition in Gujarat, India
In his book Development as Freedom, Nobel-prize winning scholar Amartya Sen wrote that “no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” tying that claim to the presence of elections, opposition parties, and...
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