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The Politics of Hunger in America
June 28, 2026 by Nadira Kabir. What the 2026 Primaries Could Mean for America's Food Safety Net As the United States moves deeper into the 2026 primary season, voters are beginning to choose the candidates who will compete in congressional, guber...
Most of Yemen is Now Hungry
June 17, 2026 Yesterday, the UN was advised that the extent of food insecurity in Yemen had ratcheted up further: "The hunger crisis in Yemen is worsening sharply, with the share of people unable to meet basic food needs rising from about half to nearly 60 percent within a month," UN ...
Strengthening Nutrition Action in “Field Exchange”
June 16, 2026 The latest (April 2026) edition of the "Field Exchange" journal, by the Irish Emergency Nutrition Network, about combatting malnutrition in e...
Kenya’s Arid Lands Face Persistent Hunger Crisis Amid Mixed Projections for Late 2026
June 14, 2026 Kenya continues to face severe hunger and malnutrition in its arid and semi‑arid lands (ASAL), where drought, high food prices, and weakened pastoralist livelihoods have pushed millions into crisis. According to the U.S. Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET), 2.5–2....
New Food for Peace (FFP) Food Aid Programming 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...
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...
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