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Foreclosures of American Farms Increase
March 12, 2026 Farm bankruptcies in the United States increased during the last year, with Chapter 12 filings rising 46% to 315, up from 216 in 2024. Regional Hotspots: The Midwest and Southeast accounted for over two-thirds of all filings, with states like Arkansas, Montana, and Pennsyl...
Concern Worldwide in Sudan
February 24, 2026 Sudan likely has the worst hunger of any country at present. World Hunger Education Service made its annual anti-hunger award, including our recommendation and a cash grant to Concern Worldwide for its food and nutrition assistance in the worst famine crisis in the world, The S...
“11.5: Edge of Life” Campaign Targets to Reduce Deaths from Severe Wasting Malnutrition
A new global initiative to treat children with severe, wasting (short term) malnutrition was announced this past week by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates. The global campaign is called "The 11.5: Edge of Life Ramadan campaign", referring to the co...
Review of “Channeling Cassandra”
Dennis King's new monograph, Channeling Cassandra, draws on his over 35 years of experience managing information about international humanitarian disasters, including his creation of ReliefWeb.com and overseeing USAID and US Department of State humanitarian information systems. Published by the Nati...
Mali Faces Famine
As of early 2026, Mali continues to face a deep nutritional crisis. While there has been long-term incremental progress in reducing chronic malnutrition (stunting), acute malnutrition (wasting) remains at emergency levels, particularly in the conflict-affected northern and central regions. Mali is...
Promoting Diagonal Approach for Nutrition
In a new paper by the Center for Global Development (Asti Shafira, Javier Guzman and JM Keller), the problem of siloeing of international support for basic nutrition is critiqued, with recommendations to integrate nutrition in universal health coverage. The authors argue that nutrition is underprior...
Famine as Weapon of War — Lancet Commentary
The medical journal, the Lancet, on July 30 2025 ran an appeal against famine titled "The Famines in Gaza and Other Conflict Areas are a Moral Failure," writing: "Widespread starvation is deliberately used as a weapon of war, at a scale that we never thought possible.... Every child -- every per...
The end of my career in global health
The election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was a gut punch, but I did not know then that the real destruction of the world as I knew it would begin to unfold in January 2025, when Trump began the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttering almost all ...
Early Humans and Plant-based Diets
The latest edition of Science journal (by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) reports that wooden tools from a 300,000-year-old site in Gantangqing (southwest) China demonstrate the importance of plant foods in early hominin (human) diets in a subtropical environment. The jour...
Famine Early Warning System Restarted
Correction & Update: Hunger Notes reported on March 19 about the cancellation of the important, 40-year-old Famine Early Warning System program, created and funded by USAID. While true at the time, FEWS NET has been re-established. You can access it here. The May 2025 prediction report is a...
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