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Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet

April 8, 2025

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 is expect...

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Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine

https://time.com/7216387/feeding-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/ February 21, 2025

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-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/) Babineux-Fonteno heads the nonprofit Feeding America, described b...

Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine

January 14, 2025

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

December 12, 2024

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 ...

The Gap in Funding for Programs to Stop Hunger

February 22, 2023

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.  Th...

U.S. Anti-Hunger Efforts by Congressional Hunger Center

February 22, 2023

On February 22, 2023 the Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) hosted a gathering of 50 staff and Hunger Fellows to look back 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...

USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals

by Laura Reilly Washington Post February 9, 2023

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 increasing whole ...

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Interview with Dominic MacSorley, Former CEO of Concern Worldwide

January 1, 2023

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, a place where two WHES Board memb...

Interview with Dr. T. Colin Campbell

by WHES Staff December 29, 2022

T. Colin Campbell, PhD has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for the China Study–one of the most comprehensive studies of health and nutrition ever con...

WORLD FOOD DAY

by WHES Staff October 16, 2022

Friends and Readers, Today is World Food Day.  Take a moment to consider how you can help alleviate Hunger, either through supporting a hunger charity, food bank or a neighbor who may not have adequate food.  World Hunger Education Service provides funds to both local and international Non-Governm...

  • World Hunger Education
    Service
    P.O. Box 29015
    Washington, D.C. 20017
  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
    • Educate the general public and target groups about the extent and causes of hunger and malnutrition in the United States and the world
    • Advance comprehension which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on the world food problem
    • Facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions
    • Promote individual and collective commitments to sustainable hunger solutions.