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- Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet
- Why the Destruction of USAID Increases Hunger and Harms America
- In Memoriam: The US Famine Early Warning System, Known as FEWS, as well as SERVIR
- Career, Long-term, Retired USAID Experts Speak about USAID’s Value
- USAID Adds Value in Disaster Response, Says Former Hunger Notes Chair
- Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine
- Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book
- Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize
- Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny
- BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World
- New World Food Programme Director says “Not on my watch”
- In extraordinary move, USAID suspends all food aid to Ethiopia
- The Razor’s Edge: Embezzlement, Corruption and Development in Ethiopia, a Novel (2022)
- WHO Reports 43,000 excess deaths in Somalia, in 2022, due to Drought
- “Love and Liberation” Captures Voices of Local Aid Workers in Famine Zone
- US Ambassador to the UN warns of famine in Somalia
- Hunger Hotspots: Sahel Countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
- Mapping Conflict and Food Insecurity in Africa
- Article Link: In Baidoa, Somalis live at the epicenter of drought, hunger and conflict
- OXFAM warns that current famine in Horn of Africa will kill a person every 36 seconds.
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee Says Famine Affecting 7.1 Million People Imminent in Somalia
- Niger and Sahel use Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration Increase Yields to Improve Food Security
- Hunger in Niger
- SAHEL Will Need Help as Famine is Coming
- HUNGER HOTSPOTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
- Locusts Add to World Hunger in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia 2021
- Ethiopia’s Man-Made Famine
- Make it look good - How perception adjustment for local foods can impact malnutrition in Nigeria
- ‘On bad days, we don’t eat’: Hunger grows for thousands displaced by conflict in Chad
- In Africa, 64% more people became food-insecure in last five years: Report
- Tigray could face famine without increased access to region, US aid official says
- Conflict in Northern Mozambique emperils food security for 900,000
- United Nations Warns 400,000 Yemeni Children at Risk of Starvation
- World Food Programme Makes Agreement with Ethiopia to Access Tigray
- Conflict Has Put Ethiopia’s Tigray Region on the Verge of Famine
- South Africa: School That Grows Its Own Food Feeds Hundreds Daily
- New Assessment Finds that 1.6 million Households are Food Insecure in Liberia
- Burkina Faso Faces Acute Food Security Crisis During Pandemic
- Podcast: Why the energy and food nexus is critical in refugee context
- Pandemics, Crisis and Hunger: An Interview with Dr. Ron Waldman Part 1
- A pandemic-driven food crisis in Africa can be prevented
- Liberians Say They Fear Hunger More Than COVID-19 as Police Violently Enforce Lockdown
- Desert Locust Plague in East Africa
- Fall Armyworm in Malawi
- WFP Warns of ‘Unprecedented’ Food Emergency in Burkina Faso
- Look beyond maize to ensure food security
- Growing Food From Air in Nigeria
- Agriculture, food security and livestock in southern Africa most vulnerable to climate hazards: FAO
- Anglican Church of Kenya helps tackle food and plastic waste
- Central African Republic Facing Acute Food Shortages
- One South Sudanese community’s triumph in reversing malnutrition
- Nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger, study shows
- Kenya faces one of the worst drought in 38 years
- Report Launch: Building a Big Tent for Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia
- Southern Africa: 1.6 Million Children Still Need Urgent Assistance After Cyclone Idai
- All hands on deck: Halting the vicious circle of stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa
- WorldFish trains farmers to boost food security
- Hunger stalks Mozambique after deadly cyclone destroys farmland
- Kenyan anger over Turkana ‘starvation’ being ignored
- United States provides additional US$15 million to respond to increased food insecurity in Zimbabwe
- South Sudan’s hunger is growing, despite 5 months of peace
- Risk & Resilience: Advancing Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria through Feed the Future
- Solar power sales help women avoid food insecurity in Yemen
- Lesotho: Acute Food Insecurity Situation December 2018 – February 2019
- The meals that change children’s lives
- Fighting ‘hidden hunger’ with fortified foods
- Liberia: 37 Percent Liberians Go Without Food Due to Unemployment
- Number of hungry children in Africa’s Sahel hits 10-year high – U.N.
- Food security project in Northern Ghana yields results
- Act now or a billion young Africans will be undone by 2050 – Mandela widow
- Africa’s Unresolved Conflicts a Key Driver of Food Insecurity
- Scale of Yemen famine was ‘initially underestimated’ by aid agencies
- Ebay against hunger
- Hunger, disease and violence: Is Somalia the worst place in the world to be a child?
- Hunger and fighting persist despite ‘peace’ in South Sudan
- Kenya: Govt takes over responsibility from WFP to provide school meals
- Insurgents’ attacks lead to food shortage in northern Mozambique: report
- More Women Owning Agricultural Land in Africa Means Increased Food Security and Nutrition
- Escalating Humanitarian Crisis And Apprehension Over Food Insecurity
- Rising obesity in Africa reflects a broken global food system
- Extreme Poverty Concentrates in Sub-Saharan Africa
- [OP-ED] SURPLUS FOOD: A WEAPON AGAINST HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- Pest-proof bags and bins slim Tanzania’s ‘lean season’
- Agroecology key to food security in developing countries
- Technology Could Soon Revolutionize Agriculture In Africa
- Thousands arrive to collect food supplies in South Sudan’s Nyal
- The student trying to solve the food waste crisis
- UN gravely concerned at South Sudan’s ‘food security crisis’
- Games boost student nutrition in Nigerian schools
- Video: South Sudan’s hunger season is peaking
- Eight states sound alarm over Sahel hunger
- Synthesis of impact evaluations of the World Food Programme’s nutrition interventions in humanitarian settings in the Sahel – Working Paper 31, March 2018
- Farmers-Herdsmen Crisis Will Affect Nigeria’s Food Security, GDP – Lawmaker
- Hunger, Death Stalk Millions in Forgotten Lake Chad Basin
- Ghana launches nationwide census on agriculture
- Overfished: In Senegal, empty nets lead to hunger and violence
- In South Sudan, a Never-Ending Hunger Season Puts Millions in Danger
- Hunger, food insecurity plague the lives of millions in Africa
- Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
- ‘I can go days without eating’: Hunger rises in South Sudan
- Wasted labour: Kenyan Farmers lost over Sh150 billion
- How market-based agriculture affects homes’ food security
- WFP Conducts Training For Liberian Journalists in Food and Nutrition Security
- Egypt, FAO sign framework to raise food security
- Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
- Project improves food security in six African nations
- Food distribution in drought-stricken areas improves nutrition in Kenya
- Fake processed food is becoming an epidemic in African urban life
- Taking a space-age approach to food security
- Gender gaps: Bane of Africa’s agricultural R&D
- Five things to know about African farmers’ latest foe – the Fall Armyworm
- Tillerson Offers $533 Million in Food Aid for African Famine
- How to declare a famine: A primer from South Sudan
- Africa ‘set to miss UN development goal on malnutrition’
- Cornell-Led Project Awarded $35 Million to Research Crop Vital to Africa’s Food Security
- Can nuclear technology zap hunger in Central African Republic?
- WATCH: Nigeria’s soil-free salad farm
- Rising Temperatures, Terrorism Threaten Cameroon’s Food Security
- The struggle to survive South Sudan’s hunger season
- Can online courses fix Africa’s food insecurity?
- Responding to East Africa’s food security crisis in 2017, preparing for next year
- Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry
- African women are starting to take a lead in agricultural research
- DR Congo: Hunger crisis, scarce funds could push Kasais to brink of catastrophe, UN agency warns
- Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster
- ‘Super beans’ raise hopes in parts of hunger-prone Africa
- Africa: Nurturing Young Entrepreneurs As the Next Generation of Hunger Fighters
- Harvest season provides meagre respite to South Sudan’s ongoing hunger crisis
- Invasion of maize-eating caterpillars worsens hunger crisis in Africa
- Focused on ending hunger, Africa neglects rising obesity
- Four things you should know about food security in Africa
- South Sudan: Economic Crisis Forces South Sudanese to Eat Less
- How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis
- Africa Key to Feeding Nine Billion People By 2050, Says AfDB
- Five women on the front lines of the fight against hunger
- Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.
- Rwandan university graduates drive agricultural modernization and food security efforts
- Using an app to help fight hunger in Nigeria
- Hunger crises will escalate unless we invest more in addressing root causes, say UN food agency chiefs on visit to drought-hit Ethiopia
- UN: Millions of people face acute hunger in DRC
- In pictures: The first 1,000 days of hunger
- Aid Groups Marshal Scarce Resources to Save Ethiopian Children
- Armyworm Influx Risks Worsening South Sudan Hunger, UN Says
- Food Crises Getting Worse in Somalia, Kenya
- At G20 summit, Trump pledges $639 million in aid to four countries
- US Congressional Leaders Look for Answers to Africa’s Food Insecurity
- More South Sudanese go hungry but worst of famine eases: U.N.
- Ethiopia warns emergency drought aid to run out next month
- How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa
- Armyworms: The hungry caterpillar threatening a global food crisis
- Experts call for multi-pronged approach to fight fall armyworm in Africa
- New Rebel Group Threatens to Intensify South Sudan’s War
- Somalia pledging conference opens as famine looms
- China’s Appetite Pushes Fisheries to the Brink
- TV show to promote farming as ‘cool’ for youth
- Children of Somali diaspora in Canada come together to fend off famine
- Satellite images trigger payouts for Kenyan farmers in grip of drought
- Fall armyworm spreads to East Africa
- Drought-hit Somalia moves closer to famine, says aid group
- How Boko Haram Spreads Hunger Beyond Nigeria’s Boarders
- U.N. food agency launches $250 million Zimbabwe plan to end hunger
- Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram
- Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It’s Happening
- Fighting Famine in War-Torn South Sudan
- Somalia: ‘People are dying of hunger…there’s no water’
- Drought brings savage halt to nomadic way of life in Somalia – in pictures
- Why The Famine In South Sudan Keeps Getting Worse
- Last time I got food, armed men took everything’: famine in South Sudan
- Famine ‘largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN’
- Nigeria Update: Although assistance provision is increasing, extreme levels of food insecurity persist in the northeast
- Kenyan closure of Dadaab refugee camp blocked by high court
- Fall Armyworm ‘Threatens African Farmers’ Livelihoods’
- Starvation looms for six million children in Horn of Africa, charity says
- For Africa’s farmers it’s government, not big business, that is key
- Video: Soybean Innovation Lab SMART Farm Improves Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Africa
- People are starving in East Africa — again — as the world looks away
- The Grinch’s not-so-festive guide to food ration cuts
- With continued drought, Horn of Africa braces for another hunger season
- A Famine likely occurred in Northeast Nigeria and may be ongoing in inaccessible areas of Borno State
- Farmer-led irrigation in Africa: Driving a new Green Revolution?
- Can $10 billion end Nigeria’s century-long oil war?
- As grasslands dwindle, Kenya’s shepherds seek urban pastures
- The massive food crisis you haven’t heard about (video)
- Land grab update: Mozambique, Africa still in crosshairs
- 75,000 children in Nigeria could die from hunger over the next year
- The beating pulse of food security in Africa
- In Somalia, U.S. escalates a shadow war
- How South Sudan’s leaders robbed their country – and nearly got away with it
- The tribes paying the brutal price of conservation
- Malnutrition rates in Nigeria “horrifying”
- In South Sudan, mothers are so hungry many can no longer breast-feed
- Tanzania empowers youth with tailoring skills as East Africa ban on used clothes, shoes nears
- Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down embattled supply minister
- South Sudan: Girls wash foraged wild greens in a river’s unsafe waters
- An oil boom made Luanda, Angola the most expensive city in the world. Now it’s in crisis.
- Malnutrition costs Ghana economy $2.6 billion annually
- Malagasy children bear brunt of severe drought
- Large scale rainwater harvesting eases scarcity in Kenya
- Blue Nile—Sudan’s forgotten front
- Five years after independence, South Sudan faces myriad challenges
- In South Sudan, bodies are being counted as peace accord appears to unravel
- These 2 boys were born the same day in the same town, but their lives will be dramatically different.
- African women are breaking their backs to get water for their families
- Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million
- Life for the Baka Pygmies of the Central African Republic
- It’s a disaster’: children bear brunt of southern Africa’s devastating drought
- Boko Haram is losing, but so is food production
- Bananas, corn and beans facing a bleak future as staple African crops decline
- Mozambique’s movement to end land grabs
- Photo essay: Through the lens of a smallholder.The lives of farmers in Mozambique showing their challenges and successes.
- History repeats itself in Ethiopia Ethiopia is in the midst of a devastating drought while donors have been distracted by crises in Syria and other parts of the world.
- Measuring the cost of hunger in Africa’s emerging economies
- La Via Campesina, buiding a international movement for food and seed sovereignty: An interview with general coordinator Elizabeth Mpofu
- Drought-stricken Zimbabwe declares state of disaster
- How to see a famine before it starts The U.S. government can predict food insecurity before it occurs. But the warnings aren’t always heeded
- Climate change could devastate Africa. It’s already hurting this Kenyan town.
- African women organize to reclaim agriculture against corporate takeover (from an interview with Mphatheleini Makaulele)
- Inside Eritrea: Conscription and poverty drive exodus from secretive African state
- Fueled by corruption, South Sudan war enters its third year
- Weak agricultural finance, drought feed malnutrition in Zimbabwe
- Farmers, civil society organizations rally behind environmentalist jailed for exposing land grabbing in Cameroon
- In Nigeria, Chinese investment comes with a downside
- Ready or not―drought tests Ethiopia
- South Sudan food team finds risk of ‘widespread catastrophe’
- Pope, in Kenya, calls for compassion for poor and nurturing of youth
- Pope Francis arrives in a Kenya fed up with graft
- We are the solution: African women organize for land and seed sovereignty. An interview with Mariama Sonko.
- Ethiopia tries to avert another famine. Mindful of past disasters, Ethiopians are readier than before to deal with drought.
- Cattle rustlers profit from Boko Haram bonanza
- Wake up and sell more coffee. Small farmers in Africa need to produce more. Happily that is easier than it sounds
- Mapped: A world at war
- Starvation as a product of war
- The worst atrocity you have never heard of
- Corruption is killing children in Angola
- Beyond Boko Haram: Nigeria’s hidden crisis
- Thousands flee violent upsurge in northern Mali
- Food worries widen in Mauritania
- When Kenyan children’s lives hang on a drip
- Photo feature: Burundi’s endless exodus
- Giving away land without consultation in Mozambique
- Mothers are vital to Democratic Republic of the Congo food security
- Malawi study reveals devastating cost of child undernutrition. Research commissioned by African Union and backed by Malawian government highlights social and economic impact of inadequate nourishment in early life.
- Who are the Imbonerakure and is Burundi unravelling?
- Kenya is threatening to close the world’s largest refugee camp
- Eritrea and North Korea are the world’s most censored countries, advocacy group says
- Land seizures speeding up, leaving Africans homeless and landless
- The great land giveaway in Mozambique
- Ebola took away her family, home and job: Now she’s trying to start over
- Women and malnutrition – the case of South Sudan
- Boko Haram violence displaces 1.2 million Nigerians
- Magic mash: reducing child malnutrition with sweet potatoes. A project to introduce orange-fleshed Vitamin-A-rich sweet potatoes to sub-Saharan Africa can improve child health. But can local eating habits be changed?
- Creating a fertile future for farmers in Africa. What are the most effective ways of encouraging the development of smallholder farming? Diversification, training and working with the private sector are key
- Africa losing billions from fraud and tax avoidance. First African initiative to address illicit outflows says governments, multinationals and crime deprive poor countries of crucial services
- The Dominion Farms’ land grab in Nigeria
- In South Africa, Thousands Mourn Nelson Mandela’s Son: He Died of AIDS and Mandela Breaks Code of Silence About AIDS by Saying So
- Ethiopia confronts its worst ethnic violence in years as government tries to take away community lands
- Congo’s forgotten war: The militia of Mambasa
- Boko Haram fuels displacement crisis in Niger’s Diffa region
- Arms and the African: the continent’s armies are going on a spending spre
- South Sudan food crisis—in 60 seconds
- Congo seeks investors for farmland bigger than France
- Ebola hits West African food security
- Ebola outbreak: Famine approaches – bringing a fresh nightmare to West Africa
- When US targets foreign leaders for corruption, recovering loot Is a challenge. Deal with Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue for mansion, Michael Jackson statues gets government less than half of what it sought.
- Out of control: How the world’s health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster
- In South Sudan, a ghost of wars past: Child soldiers
- Ebola cases could reach 1.4 million within 4 months, CDC estimates
- With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems
- How to boost food production in Africa: Smallholder farmers are struggling to adapt to rising temperatures and erratic rains and need better help from governments than they have been getting
- Africa’s dividing farmlands a threat to food security
- Ebola is taking a second toll, on economies
- U.S. carries out counter-terrorism strike in Somalia
- Military footprints in the Sahara (graphic)
- Food crisis worsens in South Sudan as conflict is displacing millions
- Pentagon set to open second drone base in Niger as it expands operations in Africa
- US officials question ability of Nigeria to rescue hostages due to military incapablity as the result of corruption
- To South Sudan’s woes, add famine—50,000 children at risk of death
- Real threat in a known market for children
- Nigerian Islamist leader threatens to sell kidnapped girls
- Root of the CAR conflict is a legacy of poverty, not religious warfare
- Trauma related to extreme violence worsens malnutrition in Central African Republic
- New thinking needed on food aid for refugees in Africa: Funding shortfall has resulted in 50 percent cuts to food aid rations for one-third of African refugees—a large increase in number of refugees accounts for the shortfall
- AFRICOM goes to war on the sly: An AFRICOM official says the US has been “at war” in Africa for over two years
- South Sudanese children starving while aid falling short
- Eritrean refugees at risk: Eritrean refugees face human trafficking, exploitation, and hostility throughout North Africa and the Sahel
- Ugandan police raid US-financed health project in what appeared to be the first public action to enforce a new anti-homosexuality law
- Africa: The next breadbasket?
- UN issues new warnings on Central African Republic
- At quiet rebel base, plotting an assult against South Sudan’s oil fields
- Gallery: female-run cereal banks help families facing food crisis in Niger. Community food banks in Niger – run exclusively by women—are reducing the impact of the food crisis on local communities
- South Sudan urgently needs help to stave off famine, UN warns
- Briefing: Punitive aid cuts disrupt healthcare in Uganda
- Fear and trauma prevent displaced South Sudanese from returning home
- US sends Osprey aircraft, more Special Operations forces to hunt Ugandan warlord
- Family planning program in Senegal drawn into conflict with religious leaders
- Oil money, and where it flows: The movie ‘Big Men’ looks at Ghanaian oil discovery
- An alarming outlook for Senegal’s hungry. The number of food insecure in the Sahel is expected to grow from 11.3 million in 2013 to more than 20 million in 2014
- With the main harvest season just weeks away, Central African Republic farmers struggle to recover from devastation
- Nigerians ask why oil funds are missing
- US takes training role in Africa as threats grow and budgets shrink
- Unravelling Zimbabwe’s “food crisis”
- Under chronic stress, Niger farmers are losing ground
- Swaziland’s dry spell upends sunny outlook on food
- Niger’s “remarkable” progress in reducing child deaths
- South Sudan: ‘One of the most dangerous places to give birth’ (video)
- Call for shakeup in Africa nutrition research
- Governor of Nigeria’s central bank is fired after warning of billions in missing oil revenue
- Mozambique’s small-scale fishermen battle illegal fishing practices, invasive species
- Africa’s billions that the poor won’t touch
- Q&A: South Sudan clashes
- West African livilihoods weakened by graft
- Zimbabwe: Food assistance needed to stave off hunger crisis, officials say
- A large majority of people in Swaziland go to bed hungry and blame their government for failing to address their food needs
- South Sudan’s deteriorating humanitarian situation
- Political strife in South Sudan sets off ethnic violence
- Political fight in South Sudan targets civilians
- Looking beyond food for causes of Cameroon’s malnutrition
- Crisis in Central African Republic is tougher than France expected
- South Africa still struggling to fulfill Mandela’s hopes and dreams
- The speech at the Rivonia Trial that changed history
- Polio drive to target millions in Horn of Africa
- Mauritania confronts a long legacy of slavery
- Government corruption “cripples” Malawi’s health sector
- Tanzania becomes a battleground in fight over genetically modified crops
- Mathotine Dz’dai, displaced in DRC: “We’re risking death again”
- Removing agricultural subsidies in Zambia—the way to go?
- Is land reform working in Burkina Faso?
- Rwandans now weary of picking up the pieces of Kagame leadership (opinion)
- The global elite’s favorite strongman
- Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe sworn in as president
- Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe sworn in as president
- US sanctions on Zimbabwe to remain after ‘flawed’ poll
- Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai may be charged for ‘judiciary insult’
- Zimbabwe’s Mugabe should not face sanctions, SADC says
- Violent and chaotic, Central African Republic lurches toward a crisis
- Zimbabwe’s avoidable food crisis: The latest crisis is not a natural disaster, but may be the result of corruption and incompetence
- As oil-rich Chad splashes the cash it must beware white elephant projects. Ten years after Chad’s oil came onstream, large infrastructure projects disguise a country failing to fruitfully invest its revenue
- Mali’s aid problem
- The cost of hunger in Swaziland
- Zimbabwe election was ‘huge farce’—Morgan Tsvangirai
- Wellbeing of the poor has deteriorated over past 15 years, Cafod says. Research from four countries reveals the worst situations of poverty are caused by a complex web of old and new issues including gender inequality, rapid changes in crop prices, and environmental degradation.
- Sierra Leone’s smallholder farmers ‘worse off’ after large land deals. Push to lure foreign investors has led to a rise in social problems, sparking fears of a return to conflict, NGO warns
- Briefing: Why the violence in South Sudan’s Jonglei State
- Food fears for tens of thousands in Jonglei
- Drones in Niger reflect new US tack on terrorism
- Letter from Africa: The looting of Nigeria’s pension funds
- What is middle class in Ivory Coast?
- Africa rising—but who benefits?
- Kenyan MPs agree to lower salaries after public outcry
- Egyptian warning over Ethiopian Nile dam
- Promising African development fund collapses
- Dreams of education fly away for Ghana’s working kids
- Darfur conflict displaces 300,000 in five months, UN says
- US firm forced to delay $350 million Cameroon plantation project
- Kofi Annan: Africa plundered by secret mining deals
- 2010-2012 Somalia famine ‘killed 260,000 people’
- Pentagon deploys small number of troops to war-torn Mali
- Massacre in Nigeria spurs outcry over military tactics
- Another scourge in his sights: guinea worm
- President is said to flee as rebels seize capital of the the Central African Republic
- Madagascar’s Millennium Village goes it alone
- Drone base in Niger gives US a strategic foothold in West Africa
- Arrests, intimidation and no new Zimbabwe
- In Africa, corruption dirties the water
- At Pentagon, ‘pivot to Asia’ becomes ‘shift to Africa’
- Kickbacks, graft and tax evasion found sapping billions from Africa
- Understanding resilience
- The annual large request for humanitarian assistance in the Sahel is a clear sign that development there is not working
- John Kerry releases $250m in US aid to Egypt as reward for political reforms. Aid package is first part of US and IMF assistance meant to encourage Egyptian government’s commitment to democracy
- Militant threats test role of a US command in Africa
- Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land. Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.
- Under Egypt’s political unrest seethes the rising anger of the poor. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood often seem to be without answers on the battered economy, and analysts wonder whether a new revolution will rise from the slums.
- Corruption feeds on Zimbabwe’s poor
- US will establish base for drones in North Africa
- Curbing Tanzania’s land-grabbing race
- Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantations
- Mozambique: Corruption undermining health service
- With rainfall and aid the number facing starvation in Somalia drops by half a million
- Leader ousted by the military, Guinea-Bissau is now a drug haven
- Somalia: Mogadishu IDPs suffer extortion, eviction
- World food day: Mali hunger crisis deepens
- Africa shows progress on hunger, report says
- In pictures: Sierra Leone’s cholera outbreak
- Fight Against Corruption by Malawi President Divides Ruling Party, Thus Threatening Political Stability
- Miners protest points to key issue in South Africa: rage from the poor in one of the world’s most unequal societies
- World failing on Mali emergency, UN humanitarian chief says
- Ethiopia: Food security and the Meles’ legacy
- Ethiopian leader’s death highlights gap between US interests and ideals
- Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian leader, dies at 57
- Food: How bad is the crisis?
- Mali’s prime minister comes under growing pressure to form unity government after 50,000 protest
- Uganda: Weaning Karamoja off food aid
- Mali: Not a fragile state yet
- Kenya: Urban poor face rising food insecurity
- Food: Price shock hotspots
- Saying Mali ‘Is our country,’ militias train to oust Islamists
- Sahel region of West Africa ‘in permanent food crisis’; more than one million children at risk of severe malnutrition, aid organizations say
- Amidst drought and famine, Niger leads West Africa in addressing crisis (video)
- Will hunger crisis fuel child marriages?
- Mysterious fatal crash offers rare look at U.S. commando presence in Mali
- Judge helped Egypt’s military to cement power
- US warns Egypt’s military over ‘power grab.’ Washington urges ruling military to transfer full power to civilian government as Muslim Brotherhood calls for protests.
- Egypt’s military issues decree giving vast powers to armed forces, but few to president
- Senator Leahy wants to put on hold military aid to Egypt until country commits to democratic transition
- Contractors run US spying missions in Africa
- U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa
- Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, UN warns
- Food: Power to the people!
- US trains troops for Somali fight
- Ethiopia: Too many deaths in childbirth
- In pictures: Charles Taylor and the Liberia and Sierra Leone wars
- Charles Taylor, former Liberian leader, found guilty of war crimes
- Guinea-Bissau premier, front runner, is deposed in a coup
- South Sudan: ‘We are depending on the leaves of the trees’
- Sudan: Feeling the pinch
- Soldiers overthrow Mali government in setback for democracy in Africa
- Sierra Leone: Land deals beginning to stir discontent
- Online, Joseph Kony and the Lords’s Resistance Army soar to topic number one
- Niger: Malian refugees flee to hunger zone
- A taste of hope sends refugees back to Darfur
- Large scale farmland acquistion in African countries threatens African food security and farmers, new UN study says
- Madagascar: Stunted children means stunted lives
- GRAIN releases data set with over 400 global land grabs
- US troops now in 4 African countries to fight Lords Resistance Army
- Analysis: Land grab or development opportunity?
- South Africans suffer as graft saps provinces
- Towards a pro-poor corn policy in Kenya–poor Kenyans now spend 25 percent of their income on corn
- Nigerians living in poverty rise to nearly 61%
- SLIDESHOW: Living on the edge in Kenya’s Turkana region
- Niger: Thousands of villages hit by severe food shortages; almost half the population of Niger is hungry
- Ethiopia ‘forcing out thousands in land grab’
- Sudan farmers ‘fear foreign land grabs’
- Somali Islamists ban aid groups, renewing famine concerns
- Encircling Somalia (map)
- US intensifies its proxy fight against al-Shabab in Somalia
- As coal boosts Mozambique, rural people left behind
- US trying to seize more than $70M from Equatorial Guinea dictator’s son over alleged corruption
- Kenyans in first al-Shabab battle in Somalia after crossing the border
- US drone base in Ethiopia is operational
- After five years, free universal secondary education in Uganda has improved attendance for poor students and girls, but quality problems remain
- Food: Rumpus over genetically modified food aid
- Malaria deaths fall over 20% worldwide in last decade
- 100 US troops to deploy to Uganda to aid fight against Lord’s Resistance Army
- Liberia election: Votes counted in Sirleaf-Tubman contest
- Swaziland: Corruption exceeds social services budget
- Kenya: Nancy, “They did very bad things to me”
- Wangari Maathai, Nobel winner, laid to rest in Kenya
- Nobel Peace Prize recognises women rights activists: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen
- Zambia: Opposition leader wins presidential election; incumbent did not rig election and voluntarily gives up power
- The Ugandan government and a British forest products company have forcibly expelled 20,000 Ugandans from their homes and land, Oxfam says
- Famine ravages Somalia in a world less likely to intervene
- UN officials say famine is widening in Somalia
- KENYA: Demo Hassan, “For 40 years, food aid has been routine”
- Global land grab: Foreign investors are scooping up vast tracts of farmland in some of the world’s hungriest countries to grow crops for export
- Poverty and government assistance not adequate for the needs fueling malnutrition in rural Kenya
- Conflict, government instablity, and famine
- Running out of water in northern Kenya: Amenia Abdalla waits in line six hours for 25 gallons of water which is expected to last 10 days for her family of eight
- Somalia’s humanitarian crisis worsened by violations of laws of war, says report
- East Africa: Tough lifestyle changes as food prices continue to rise
- Somali famine spreads to three more areas, says UN
- Hundreds of thousands of people in northwest Kenya are almost out of food and water
- In West Africa, democracy struggles to survive as the military threatens civilian power
- Maternal deaths focus harsh light on Uganda
- Kenya: When a cow is part of the family
- Top 10 culprits for Horn of Africa hunger (opinion)
- Somalis flee famine along ‘roads of death’
- UN declares famine in parts of Somalia: 3.7 million people ‘now in crisis’ and more than 10 million affected by worst drought in decades
- When food shortages mean conflict
- Sierra Leone government eliminates medical fees for children and pregnant women, resulting in huge increase in patients
- Photographs: Fleeing Somalia’s drought
- Five vegetables you’ve never heard of that are helping to end hunger
- Ethiopia: Families in Bisle living on 1.1 lbs of boiled wheat a day
- Kenya police tear-gas corn and fuel price protestors
- No single food can put an end to hunger. But worldwide there are many different fruits and vegetables that are helping to improve nutrition and diets, while increasing incomes and improving livelihoods.
- UNHCR concerned about malnutrition levels among new Somali refugees
- Somalia: Halima Omar, “I watched four of my children die of hunger”
- Measuring starvation in Somalia
- Madagascar: Poverty and malnutrition on sisal plantations
- Congo: Measles kills 32, infects hundreds
- Chad: Children unprotected as polio spreads
- The daily fight for life in Somalia (video)
- East Africa faces ‘world’s worst food security crisis’
- Mugabe ally, supported by Zimbabwe police and courts, escalates push to control Anglican church—key part of government effort to stifle religious opposition
- Northern Sudan threatens to occupy two more disputed regions as southern Sudan prepares to succede
- Uganda: Riots break out in Kampala after three weeks of protests against higher food prices, arrrest of opposition leader
- Uganda: Christine Amony, “Finding food for the whole family is becoming a nightmare”
- Robert Mugabe hounds rivals in Zimbabwe, parties say
- Ivory Coast’s UN-recognized President, Alassane Ouattara, has urged restraint after the dramatic capture of his rival Laurent Gbagbo
- Ivory Coast: ‘Ouattara must stop reprisal attacks’ Amnesty International says
- Chad: Because of poverty, children voluntarily join rebel armies as soldiers
- Burundi: Former child soldiers ‘languishing in poverty’
- Showdown for Ivory Coast rivals—heavy fighting near Gbagbo residence
- Ivory Coast: One million refugees feared, UNHCR says
- Sudan preventing food, health care from reaching Darfur, Catholic Relief says
- Ethiopia at the center of global farmland rush that has put 86 million acres in foreign hands, shutting out small farmers
- Somalia: As a result of conflict and drought, 1 out of 3 Somalians needs humanitarian asssistance as prices of food and water soar
- Urban exodus from Abidjan as violence escalates between armed groups supporting Côte d’Ivoire’s two rival leaders, Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo
- South Sudan voters choose secession
- Darfur returning to “past patterns of violence”
- Côte d’Ivoire: Fear descends on the North
- Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report
- Sudan’s leader reaches out ahead of a referendum on independence for the South
- ‘From one hell to another: Somali refugees from war in Mogadishu face a dangerous road
- Zambia: “Marrying off young girls is a tradition here”
- Sarah Mohammed, who is eight months pregnant, plans to deliver inside her tent in Galkayo, Somalia, because there is no nearby hospital. Mohammed fled Mogadishu several months ago after watching an explosion tear apart her cousin. Photo:Sudarsan Raghavan/Washington Post
- Wounds reopened–the price of breakdown in the Ivory Coast
- Ivory Coast president orders UN to leave
- Ivory Coast country profile: Once hailed as a model of stability, Ivory Coast has slipped into the kind of internal strife that has plagued many African countries
- Ivory Coast poll overturned: Gbagbo declared winner
- World leaders back Ouattara as Ivory Coast election winner
- Attention-grabber for Sudan’s cause
- Ivory Coast election: Alassane Ouattara ‘beats Gbagbo
- Slow progress on regulation of land-grabbing
- River blindness in Nigeria: photo essay
- A global graveyard for dead computers in Ghana (Photo slideshow)
- Military junta rules Zimbabwe for its own gain, with Mugabe little more than a front man, says MDC’s Bennett
- Progress has been made in treating malnutrition in Sahelian children, including ready-to-eat foods and big shift to outpatient treatment
- Bushmen lose right to reopen vital waterhole in the center of the Kalahari desert
- International body overseeing trade in ‘blood diamonds’ agrees to limited exports from new diamond fields in Zimbabwe
- Violence in South Africa against immigrants is caused by very poor South Africans facing great competition from very poor immigrants, not xenophobia
- Call for more aid as 10 million face hunger in the Sahel–most are in Niger
- Half a world from the Gulf, giant oil spills have occurred every year for the past 50 years in the Niger Delta
- Searching for Liberia’s missing millions. How much money did Charles Taylor, Liberia’s deposed president, take from his country and where is it?
- At least 6.8 million people were displaced last year, mainly by long-running conflicts, pushing the number of those forced to live away from home to 27 million – the highest since the mid-1990s
- Angola: Oil wealth no benefit to farmers
- NaTchuto gains power in Guinea-Bissau–US government considers him a major figure in the international drug trade
- Shaky rule in Madagascar threatens trees
- A recipe for extreme hunger: How a Kenyan woman feeds her family of ten when she has 40 shillings (50 cents)
- Analysis: What is a famine?
- The wavering war on AIDS (opinion)
- In Uganda, AIDS war is falling apart–prevention is failing and there is no new money for anti-retroviral drugs
- White House is being pressed to reverse course and join landmine ban
- Waking from the nightmare: towards a mine-free Mozambique
- Global: The worst places to be a mother
- Sierra Leone inaugurates free health care for women and children, but major gaps in health care services remain
- Campaign to eradicate polio makes real progress in countries most affected, Nigeria and India
- Music, infused with sorrow and joy, in honor of migrants to South Africa
- Miriam Adou, who each year makes the trek from south to north Niger to work as a migrant laborer, and this year for the first time, brought 6 of 8 children, says “We help each other… but it is hard”
- Hunger spreads to north Niger as poor migrant laborers from south Niger now bring their families that this year face starvation in the south
- South African president Zuma ‘deeply regrets pain’ over love-child fathered with a woman who was not one of his wives
- President Zuma gives exactly the wrong lesson on HIV prevention (multiple sexual partners and no condoms–the principal way HIV is spread) to a nation where HIV is the biggest killer
- In Mali’s richest region, Sikasso, malnutrition is as high as in the country’s barren north, due in large part to concentration on cash crop, export-oriented production in the rich region
- Aid to African families that take in orphaned children gives alternative to orphanages
- Campaign to eradicate guinea worm in hard-hit Nigeria may have worked
- Ethiopian government inaction, repression, and obfuscation is a major cause of the developing Ethiopian famine (opinion)
- Wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away, with alarming implications for hunger in Ethiopia, critics say
- Population explosion to stop Africa’s attempt to attain MDGs
- Africa population tops one billion
- Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
- Ogiek tribesman may be driven from their ancestral forest home in Kenyan plan
- The World Food Program has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency
- Four year drought pushes 23 million Africans to brink of starvation
- Ethiopia asks for urgent food aid for 6.2 million people
- Burundi’s struggle to provide free healthcare
- China spreads aid in Africa, with some catches (corruption, secrecy and long term indebtedness of the borrowing country)
- Eager South African students in poor areas suffer from poor teaching, perhaps a legacy of apartheid
- Child mortality rate declines globally
- Lush land dries up, withering Kenya’ s hopes
- Gabon protestors clash with security forces after poll result shows Ali Ben Bongo won presidency with 42 percent of the vote. Critics claim election fraud carried out to ensure that Bongo would succeed his father as president.
- South African government embraces study very critical of its health policy
- In pictures: Kenya’s camp for Somali refugees
- Nigeria in/near hunger crisis–agriculture is neglected, and 38 percent of children are moderately or severely malnourished
- Fed-up South Africans lash out at Zuma’s government. Violent protests have erupted in about 20 townships as the urban poor who backed the ANC grow angrier about the lack of improvement to their lives.
- Obama gives a call for change to a rapt Africa
- G8’s promise to Africa is likely to be broken–pledge to double aid by 2010 far behind schedule
- Battle to halt corruption in Africa ebbs
- High food prices force Kenyan slum dwellers to go hungry
- Burkina Faso: largest measles outbreak in more than 10 years
- Kenya’s power-sharing report card: ‘unsatisfactory.’ One year after ethnic violence tore the African nation apart, the coalition government is moving slowly – or not at all – to address the problems
- Kenya: belt tightening as hunger spreads–causes include violence, high world food prices, and drought
- Ethiopia prohibits international aid agencies and Ethiopian NGOs funded by aid agencies from working in areas including human rights, equality, conflict resolution and the rights of children
- Guinea worm ‘almost eradicated’
- Cameroon: buying food aid locally also has risks
- The humanitarian impact of urbanization
- World Bank withdraws oil pipeline financing for Chad after government fails to use oil profits to tackle poverty
- Anti-retroviral drugs reduce AIDS deaths in Malawi: one-third of those infected taking drugs, with 66% survival rate thus far
- Kenya: struggling for peace
- Ethiopia’s population has nearly doubled since 1985–now, 14 million need help as another food crisis sets in
- Ethiopia faces a new food crisis
- Desperation as Ethiopia’s hunger grows
- U.S. Africa Command trims its aspirations. Nations loath to host force; aid groups resisted military plan to take on relief work
- In postwar Liberia, paradise amid the poverty: feelings mixed as aid workers live well
- South African violence against immigrants fed by post-apartheid poverty
- Six million Ethiopian children at risk of malnutrition as crops fail and prices rise
- Famine looms as wars rend Horn of Africa
- Kenyan government starts returning people displaced by violence to their homes and land–many still fearful for their safety
- World Bank again accused of tolerating corruption in Kenya
- AFRICOM to focus on military, not humanitarian role
- Kenya political accord skirts key issue of land reform
- Kenya peace talks reach impasse
- Bush highlights malaria campaign
- Some 600,000 displaced in Kenya
- UN envoy heads to Kenyan hotspots
- The Mungiki and other Kenyan armed groups profit from chaos
- Malawi agriculture production rises sharply after years of food deficits–necessary next steps debated
- Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs succeeds in cutting malaria deaths in half in Rwanda and Ethiopia
- Europe takes Africa’s fish, and boatloads of migrants follow
- Kenya: it’s the economy, not just ‘tribalism’
- Ending famine in Malawi, simply by ignoring the experts
- Economic growth in Africa over the past decade (5.4% per year) equals that of the rest of the world, World Bank says. However, largest growth occurred in oil-rich countries, due to increasing demand and price for oil, countries which have high corruption and poor records of providing services to the poor.
- IMF ready to forgive Liberia’s debt
- Southern Africa: HIV-induced famine’s impact on agriculture
- Liberia decries lack of doctors
- Mozambique ex-president Joaquim Chissano wins prize for excellence in leadership
- World Bank head urges countries to cut Liberia’s debt
- U.S. military assistance for Africa: a better solution
- Fifteen years of conflicts have cost Africa around $300 billion–equal to the amount of international aid received
- Zimbabwe ‘running out of bread’
- New ranking of African governments says Mauritius best-governed, Somalia worst-governed, and Rwanda most improved
- In Katanga slum in Kampala, Uganda a visit to a public restroom is a luxury which comes at a price
- The new military frontier: Africa
- Sierra Leone’s opposition wins presidential election with 53 percent of votes
- US military plane hit by Tuareg gunfire in Mali while supplying government troops
- Sierra Leone opposition unites for rerun
- Kenya: the fight for water, a valuable slum commodity
- In pictures: Sierra Leone slum
- Vote counting is under way in Sierra Leone following a high turnout in presidential and parliamentary polls.
- The election issue–basic services
- Jailed policeman accuses former South Africa president De Klerk of ordering murders of anti-apartheid activists
- Uganda: Lord’s Resistance Army to remain in the bush until International Criminal Court indictments are lifted
- Starbucks agrees to surrender copyrights on Ethiopian coffee names to Ethiopia
- Parts of Africa see slowing in AIDS epidemic
- Regina Nzokirantevye: ‘I have been displaced most of my life’
- Ousmane Sembène, critic of Africa’s dependency on aid, dies
- Press freedom declines in sub-Saharan Africa
- Starbucks and Ethiopia on the verge of coffee trademark deal
- Sahel: strategic shift in battle against region’s high death toll
- Zambia pays ‘vulture fund’ $15 million
- Ethiopia tries to trademark its coffees in the European Union, in the face of opposition from Starbucks
- Into Africa
- Somalia at the crossroads (commentary)
- U.S. troops went into Somalia after raid. No top targets confirmed dead
- U.S. air strike in Somalia targets Al-Qaeda figure
- Ethiopia urged to leave Somalia
- Young and homeless fill Africa’s city streets
- SOMALIA: Continuing fighting forces hundreds more to flee homes
- KENYA: Alarming levels of child sex exploitation, UN agency reports
- ZAMBIA: Poor nutrition nullifies benefit of ARV treatment
- Aid workers quit Darfur violence. Sharply deteriorating security in the Darfur region of Sudan has led to the withdrawal of 250 relief workers.
- Central African Republic: Rebels, government blame each other for village destruction
- WEST AFRICA: Girls getting educated but also abused
- LIBERIA: UN maintains diamond sanction, demanding better government controls
- LIBERIA: Speaking out about Taylor’s son
- UGANDA: An HIV/AIDS campaign in crisis?
- ZAMBIA: Help for child headed homes
- Walking with young Fulani nomads
- United States Justice Dept. brings first charges for torture abroad. Ex-Liberian president’s son, Chuckie Taylor Indicted for torture in Liberia.
- Burundi government under pressure to curb continued rights violations
- Sudan’s Darfur ‘close to abyss’
- BURUNDI: Huge challenges in solving land crisis as refugees return home to find others farming their land
- Americans take up Darfur’s cause
- HIV epidemic ‘is getting worse’
- Annan presents new plan for Darfur peacekeeping force
- Loser of Congo election rejects result
- ZIMBABWE: Five year plan to battle HIV/AIDS on farms launched
- WEST AFRICA: Still the lowest living standards in world, UN report says
- Son of Equatorial Guinea’s president buys $35 million house in Malibu, California
- SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate change threatens food security
- Top Ethiopian judge flees threats from Ethiopian government, accuses government of killing critics
- The power of oil and the state of democracy in Angola
- SENEGAL: Making it with microfinance
- Starbucks in Ethiopian coffee dispute. U.S. coffee chain Starbucks is denying Ethiopia earnings of $88 million a year, according to Oxfam.
- SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Stigma hobbles HIV/AIDS fight
- Africa’s forgotten HIV children
- More than $380bn has been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, Nigeria’s chief corruption fighter says
- Illegal orphanages mushroom.
- WEST AFRICA: Child deaths from AIDS to keep growing
- Calls for review of law in wake of Madonna adoption.
- US envoy in peace bid for Darfur
- Darfur campaign finds a powerful friend in MySpace
- Sudan divestment effort gains momentum at state level
- George Soros donates $50 million to implement African Millennium Villages project
- Gates, Rockefeller charities Join to fight African hunger
- In Darfur, terror from the air. Sudan intensifies use of helicopter gunships and bombs, driving more villagers from their homes.
- Army unleashes military offensive in Darfur
- NIGERIA: Lagos, mega-city of slums
- Sudan Says No as U.N. Backs Force For Darfur
- Darfur humanitarian assistance near collapse as the result of increased conflict, U.N. official says
- Zimbabwean mother and daughter try to make a living by selling food in Zambia
- Government of Cameroon discovers that it pays 45,000 salaries to people that do not exist
- Zimbabweans face chaos and confusion as they try to deposit and spend their cash before it becomes worthless
- Zimbabwe government seizes millions in cash
- Congo poll count raises concerns
- Aid politics: why Ethiopia and its donors are no longer talking
- Long wait after landmark Congo poll: results will not be official for several weeks
- Zimbabwe money loses three zeros as a result of inflation of almost 1,200% per year
- Poverty worries beset resurgent Zambia
- ZAMBIA: Recovering Copperbelt faces new dangers
- With no prospects, youths in Sierra Leone are turning to crime and violence
- Orphans and vulnerable children are now 5 percent of Nambia’s population and expected to be 10 percent within 15 years
- Dispossessing Africa’s wealth
- Niger leaders deny food shortage
- Drought Magnifies Hunger, Suffering of Children in Malawi: Rural Village Tracks Malnutrition’s Toll on Young
- Donors shape Malawi’s food policies, USAID report says
- Bushmen in Botswana say they were forcibly evicted from village
- Case lifts Nigerian police veil of impunity. Nigerian police kill six young people in car, plant weapons in the car, and pass deaths off as ‘fight with dangerous criminals.’ Surprisingly, commission of inquiry is called.
- Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor doing business as usual in Nigeria: international war crimes prosecutors, human rights groups and U.S. officials concerned
- Virginity becomes a commodity In Uganda’s war against AIDS
- Net tightens around northern Uganda’s brutal rebel militia: Lord’s Resistance Army unchecked for 20 years
- Nigerian police clash with Nigerian troops
- Progress and Challenges in Strengthening African Agriculture
- The rise of a market mentality means many go hungry in Niger
- One-third of Zimbabwe’s teachers are HIV-positive
- In pictures: hunger hits Niger
- 6,000 people walk 250 miles to return home after Sudan’s peace treaty is signed (picture essay)
- Tons of Food Aid Gradually Arrive in Niger
- Sudan bids farewell to rebel leader John Garang
- Niger: food trickles in
- Uganda backs multi-party return.
- Children of Sudan’s cattle camps
- Years of drought, border dispute with Ethiopia, sinking water table bring hunger to one million Ethiopians
- Six years after a return to civilian rule, Nigeria’s police still routinely torture detainees, a new report says
- Despite food crisis in Swaziland, corn, the staple food, is not profitable for farmers to produce
- UN condemns Zimbabwe slum blitz
- Thousands starve in Niger while world doesn’t watch
- Botswana’s gains against AIDS put U.S. claims to test
- Bush pledges (multi-year) $1.2 billion plan to fight malaria; vows to double aid to Africa by 2010 (though he will be out of office by then)
- Among Ordinary Africans, G-8 Seems Out of Touch
- A place where women rule: all-female village in Kenya is a sign of burgeoning feminism across Africa
- A Culture Vanishes in Kalahari Dust
- In Africa, Lifting the Pall of Smoke From Cooking
- High-Profile Help for Africa: Mandela, Tony Blair and Bono–Will the U.S. Respond?
- In Darfur, Both Sides Want to Fight
- Oil Giant ChevronTexaco Admits Nigeria Aid Woes
- Sudan’s Unbowed, Unbroken Inner Circle
- Mugabe’s Party Sweeps to Victory
- In Zimbabwe, Withholding of Food Magnifies the Hunger for Change
- U.K Aid Report Asks for Doubling of Aid to Africa
- In Pictures: Darfur Journey
- Togo’s President–the Former President’s Son Who Used the Military to Take Over After His Father’s Death– Steps Down After Strong International Pressure
- A Crushing Choice for Ethiopian Mothers With HIV: Facing Death, Women Leave Children at Orphanages
- Born to be a Slave in Niger!
- In Togo’s Dynastic Transition, An Echo of Yesterday’s Africa
- Stigma of AIDS Strong in South Africa
- Desert Locusts to Threaten Crops in the Sahel Region–International Assistance Badly Needed
- Are Women the Key to African Growth?
- Letter from Northern Uganda
- South African Poor’s Education Struggle
- Only Peace Can End Food Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Food Programme Official Says
- Central African Republic: Impact of War on the Northeast
- National Disaster in Swaziland
- Land Reform in Namibia: Slow Pace, Debatable Benefits
- Ethnic Split Creates Ivory Coast Crisis
- A Dog’s Life for Mothers in Northern Ugandan Refugee Camps
- ‘Bittersweet Homecomings in War-Weary Sudan
Agriculture & Nutrition
- Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID
- Past World Hunger Prize Winners
- USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals
- Humanitarian agencies advocate for simplified treatment of severe malnutrition
- What If the world went to a plant based diet?
- Resilience Book Review: Ending Hunger – The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It
- WFP’s Chief Economist Comments that World is “Exploding” with Food Insecurity
- What War in Ukraine means for World Food Supply
- Opinion: Why reinvent the wheel on food security and nutrition?
- What About CORONA Virus and Food Safety?
- New Series by Devex: Future of Food Systems
- United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021
- Four Famine Hot Spots
- State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) Report 2020
- Peter Morris, Nutritionist and Long-term USAID Expert Leads WHES
- The US food system is killing Americans
- United Nations Asks for Additional Food Resources as Corona Virus Impacts World
- These 18 Organizations Are Building a Stronger Food System Through Agroecology
- Global Nutrition Report 2020 Reports that Malnutrition is Leading Cause of Mortality and Morbidity
- Build diverse food systems for post-COVID-19 world
- COVID-19 Narratives by Dr David Nabarro
- Food goes to waste amid coronavirus crisis
- Mapped Malnutrition Data Shows Concerning Disparities in Many Countries
- Regenerative Agriculture in the USA
- Malnutrition in Humanitarian Crises: The Will to End a Preventable Disease
- A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
- The hidden hunger affecting billions
- The tools to end childhood hunger
- We are leaving so much food on farms to just rot in the field
- Natalie’s Everyday Heroes: Hunger Task Force Farm director Matt King
- Why soil is disappearing from farms
- To Survive in a Wetter World, Raise Ducks, Not Chickens
- Graça Machel calls for disrupting the agricultural sector to achieve Zero Hunger
- Climate Change Is Intensifying Food Shocks
- Netherlands vegetable seed developer wins World Food Prize
- Replace soil with foam to solve global food security crisis, say scientists
- From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future
- Food waste starts long before food gets to your plate
- One in five people are eating themselves to an early death: Global study
- Philippines El Niño task force to prioritize water, food security
- How you can think yourself thin
- The World Food Program Uses Innovation to Disrupt Hunger
- How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
- Nature’s nutritious seeds: 10 reasons why you should opt for pulses
- GMO cowpea: Bridging the gap between innovation and social change
- This Bill Gates-backed start-up is fighting world hunger by making your avocados last longer
- Scientists Have ‘Hacked Photosynthesis’ In Search Of More Productive Crops
- Space tech that feeds high-end diners in Toronto could help Canada’s North
- One way to reduce food waste: Use it to make soil healthier
- New Pest in India Could Threaten National and Asian Food Security
- The dating game: When food goes bad
- From food security to nutrition security
- Aquafarmers on the front lines
- The Very Hot, Very Hungry Caterpillar
- What Will the World Eat in the Next Decade?
- Are forgotten crops the future of food?
- Moves to cut emissions could cause more hunger than climate change, study says
- ‘Severe decline in bee species threatens food security worldwide’
- Fighting the ‘white cancer’ threatening global food security
- Does more food always mean less hunger?
- Food hub could make locally sourced food more accessible to Edmontonians
- Video: Ways to impact Food Security
- Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework for Food and Agriculture
- With bees on the brink, World Bee Day seeks to raise awareness
- Save the bees! Lawmakers join the battle to save pollinators
- TED Talk: Why Bees Are Disappearing
- Bolivia’s indigenous women cope with climate change
- In Sweeping War on Obesity, Chile Slays Tony the Tiger
- Growing plants with ‘Speed Breeding’ techniques could feed the world
- With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger
- France to force big supermarkets to give unsold food to charities
- Hunger Fighters Interview: Alex Hart
- Hunger Fighters Interview: Jessica McClard
- The Big Washington Food Fight
- 5 Ways Schools Can Boost the Local Food Economy
- How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food
- 9 TED talks that will change the way you think about food
- A G-20 Challenge: How Do We Get More Food from Less Water?
- Two Scientists, Two Different Approaches To Saving Bees From Poison Dust
- Venezuela Is Starving
- School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says
- Urban farming produces more than food: social networks are a key spinoff
- Quinoa genome unveiled in search for hardy crop to feed world
- Microbiome experts to speak at World Economic Forum
- Open data aims to boost food security prospects
- The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
- Dispelling myths around the Arctic Circle’s famed ‘doomsday’ seed vault
- Here’s what healthy food looks like in 7 different countries
- Student-led initiatives aim to promote agriculture on U.S. campuses
- Listen: Food Insecurity-a cause and consequence of conflict
- Dial ‘N’ for Nutrition? A Landscape Analysis of What We Know About m-Nutrition, m-Agriculture and m-Development
- A new global research agenda for food
- Climate change threatens world coffee supply, report says
- Wheat, one of the world’s most important crops, is being threatened by climate change
- Behind the Monsanto deal, doubts about the GMO revolution
- Indigenous people demand shared benefits from forest conservation
- Can we feed 10 billion people on organic farming alone?
- Iowa farmers ripped out prairie; now some hope it can save them
- The true extent of hunger: What the FAO isn’t telling you
- One in 10 people may face malnutrition as fish catches decline
- 107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs; Greenpeace replies
- Biofortification pioneers win 2016 World Food Prize for fight against malnutrition
- The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
- Launch of 2016 Global Nutrition Report
- FROM UNIFORMITY TO DIVERSITY: A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems
- Asia-Pacific region aims at hunger-free goal
- Food waste spotlight
- New protocol aims to cut trillion-dollar food waste bill
- As populations swell and water becomes scarce, food prices could double: report
- Farmers hold keys to ending poverty, hunger, FAO says
- Diabetes was once a problem of the rich. Now it belongs to the poor.
- 30 indigenous crops promoting health and contributing to food security
- Tiny forage fish at bottom of marine food web get new protections
- Farming for a small planet: Agroecology now
- Why nutrition? (video)
- The strange and surprising debate over how to help a malnourished kid
- Obituary in memory of Dr. Urban Jonsson
- Three win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on tropical diseases river blindness, filariasis, and malaria
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy
- A tragic choice: Fight malaria or starve
- Vaccine aide gunned down in Pakistan
- Every dollar spent on childhood nutrition can save up to $166, new study finds
- Democratizing the fight against malnutrition
- FAO releases “Food and Nutrition in Numbers”
- World hunger falls, but number of undernourished remains ‘unacceptably high’—joint UN report
- Global Nutrition Report says every nation except China has crossed a “malnutrition red line”, suffering from too much or too little nutrition
- The stark difference between what poor babies and rich babies eat: Poor children often are fed foods that help establish long-lasting, unhealthful eating patterns
- Understanding hunger
- Biography of WHES board member Margie Ferris Morris
- The “unfinished business” of lowering child mortality
- CIA: No more vaccination campaigns in spy operations
- Disease of Pakistan’s poor now worries the affluent
- Polio’s return after near eradication prompts global health warning
- When not to go to school
- Poor sanitation in India may affect well-fed children with malnutrition
- USAID, partners target preventable deaths. New efforts unveiled to save millions of women, children
- Fortified food—persuading the private sector to do good
- Biofortified tortillas to provide micronutrients in Latin America
- “Toxic stress”, a relentless cycle of stress inflicted on a child whose parents may be battling to survive, unable to nurture it properly; or where there may be violence, neglect and/or poor nutrition, can result in negative patterning on the baby’s brain that can inhibit intellectual and emotional growth
- Which 7 countries are most committed to ending hunger? In a recently published index, researchers analysed the political commitment to hunger and nutrition of 45 developing countries
- Obesity rate for young children plummets 43 percent in a decade
- Call for shakeup in Africa nutrition research
- UN focuses on faltering goals: water, sanitation, energy
- Obesity found to gain its hold in earliest years
- 20 milion in Mideast to get polio vaccine
- Violence against women worldwide is epidemic. More than one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence, WHO says
- Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
- Maternal health in India: Where we are today
- Nutrition ‘must be a global priority’, say researchers as malnutrition is implicated in 45 percent of child deaths
- A quarter of the world’s children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, Save the Children says
- About 40 percent of the diarrhea in young children is caused by four bugs, study finds
- UNICEF report details the cost of malnutrition in children
- Poorest countries lead the fight against malnutrition
- In spite of billions of dollars spent on heart attack research, and diet’s apparent critical role in preventing heart attacks, very few scientific studies on diet’s role have been done
- Nevin S. Scrimshaw, pioneer nutritionist, dies at 95
- India wakes up to child malnutrition ‘shame,’ begins to make progress
- Getting polio campaigns back on track (analysis)
- Pakistan polio drive suspended after 8 health workers killed by extremists (video)
- Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal
- New HIV cases falling in some poor nations, but treatment still lags
- As dengue fever sweeps India, a slow response stirs experts’ fears
- Is nutrition getting the attention it deserves?
- USAID nutritionist leaves legacy of saving lives
- Beyond 7 billion: The coming wave of population growth will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries (series)
- After 14 years, Philippines moves forward with bill to improve contraceptive access
- Breaking the cycle of HIV, hunger and poverty
- Everything’s different (almost) since last international AIDS conference in US
- Family planning summit focuses on mother and child survival
- Study says meeting contraceptive needs could cut maternal deaths by a third
- Child survival up, but not enough
- US lags in global measure of premature births
- In Haiti, global failures on a cholera epidemic
- India plans big increase in health-care spending to catch up to rivals
- Fund halts new grants for AIDS, TB and malaria treatment in poor countries as developed country contributions drop
- Report cites dramatic drop in AIDS deaths worldwide
- Fall in funding raises question mark over future of global fight against Aids: International financing for HIV programs in developing nations worldwide has fallen 10% (opinion)
- A special child (opinion)
- Laos: NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing, some of which presents infant formula as better than breastfeeding
- Planting for the future
- Pakistan: Unsafe water kills 250,000 children a year
- Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable
- Rene Le Berre, 78: Entomologist saved millions of Africans from river blindness
- Vitamin A program deficiency highlights primary care needs
- UNAIDS reports progress against HIV: New infections have fallen and more people have access to treatment, although two-thirds of those infected still lack access to treatment
- World hunger dips, but not by much
- World hunger increases despite growth in food production
- 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from chronic undernutrition, causing one-third of deaths in children under five, the United Nations Children’s Fund says
- Slowed funding threatens AIDS fight, group says–recession, other factors causing international donors to pull back
- Feeding the world without harming it
- Food experts worry as population and hunger grow
- WHO warns swine flu is unstoppable
- WHO declares swine flu pandemic
- Mexico flu sparks global action
- Few resources, little hope, for those with HIV in Myanmar (Photo essay)
- Dying, and alone, in Myanmar
- Investing in the future: Rice and the global financial crisis
- Zimbabwe diary: Fighting cholera
- Women in poor nations are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications than those in the developed world, UNICEF warns
- Number of children immunized has been inflated for years
- Ignoring India’s malnourished
- Premier says China to ensure safe food
- A mother’s final look at life. In impoverished Sierra Leone, childbirth kills one in eight women.
- Anti-retroviral drugs reduce AIDS deaths in Malawi: one-third of those infected taking drugs, with 66% survival rate thus far
- Progress and setbacks in AIDS battle
- AIDS deaths down 10% in 2007 with greater access to treatment key factor, UN report says
- AIDS funding binds longevity of millions to US
- AIDS drugs reaching more people in developing world, UN says
- Eradicating malaria worldwide seen as a distant goal, at best
- Sri Lanka: on track to eliminate malaria
- Administration and House leaders agree on bill authorizing a tripling of AIDS funding; money must still be appropriated
- Drug resistant TB ‘at new high’
- China may revamp one-child rule
- Governments fail to invest enough to prevent malnutrition
- African AIDS crisis continues despite $15 billion US initiative
- Worldwide measles eradication target unlikely to be reached–European nations major part of the problem
- Photo journal Charles Sako of Kenya: My life with HIV
- Globally, deaths from measles drop sharply. Little-known campaign has boosted immunization rates in developing world
- UN to cut estimate of AIDS epidemic–population with virus overstated by millions
- Rethinking AIDS strategy after a string of failures. In wake of canceled vaccine study, some experts are reemphasizing proven, low-tech prevention methods.
- Toilet conference opens in Delhi–40 countries take part
- West Africa: New approach to malaria recommended, with more funds going to indoor spraying and new anti-malarial drugs, and less to bednets
- Obesity epidemic is global, study shows. People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a one-day global snapshot reveals
- Doctors Without Borders calls for increased use of nutrient dense ready-to-use food to save malnourished children’s lives
- In pictures: India’s sanitation struggle
- Child mortality at record low thanks to immunization and anti-malaria measures, UNICEF reports
- Somalia: Alarming malnutrition rates as food crisis hits Shabelle region
- West Africa: Region making headway on food fortification
- Congo train to combat malaria: a two-day mission to deliver 300,000 mosquito nets by rail to 10% of Congo’s population has begun
- Afghanistan-Pakistan: cross border polio campaign targets 40 million children
- Maputo seizes ‘toxic toothpaste’
- Nigeria: conquering polio’s last frontier
- The lives of women I have known who became infected by HIV
- Medecines sans Frontieres: Lack of nurses ‘killing Africans’
- Readout from a UN debate on how to end hunger
- Brazil to break AIDS drug patent
- Mosquito nets cut birth problems from malaria
- East Africa: TB control programs inadequate – WHO
- Mozambique: ‘I am in the darkness’ — AIDS orphan
- Speeding HIV’s deadly spread: multiple, concurrent partners drive disease in Southern Africa
- Giving babies nutritious food could significantly increase their earning power as adults, new research suggests
- Global vaccination campaign cuts measles deaths
- 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food
- Prime Minister Singh calls large Indian nutrition program a failure–says program has been poorly implemented
- Why children die for lack of a toilet
- In South Africa, a dramatic shift on AIDS–treatment, prevention get new emphasis
- World Health Organization backs DDT for malaria control, reversing 30 year policy
- Africa gives ‘ABC’ mixed grades. AIDS abstinence plan raises awareness but has small effect on behavior.
- Largess with clear limits: in Africa and elsewhere, Gates Foundation takes focused approach to giving.
- U.N. group sets compromise on AIDS policy. Document sets no targets, cites risks to women.
- Food or drugs? How famine and hunger compound Africa’s AIDS crisis.
- AIDS vaccine testing goes overseas. U.S. funds $120 million trial despite misgivings of some researchers.
- Cure for neglected diseases: funding. Large doses of donations will lead to new drugs, report says.
- AFRICA: Health worker migration–can it be stemmed?
- BOTSWANA: Diarrhea epidemic kills 470 children
- UGANDA: Global Fund probe reveals massive graft
- Saving millions for just a few dollars: cost-effective health measures for poor nations
- AFRICA: Feachem reflects on Global Fund journey
- New non-profit attempts to develop production facility for new tuberculosis vaccines
- Partners in Namibia working hard to achieve HIV treatment success, but rural areas not yet reached
- Burkina Faso: Finding the words to talk about HIV
- Theft, bribery and extortion deprive millions of proper healthcare
- High bird flu risk in Africa after outbreak in Nigeria
- Botswana: Routine HIV testing not as straightforward as it sounds
Americas
- U.S. Anti-Hunger Efforts Reflected by Congressional Hunger Center
- Budding farmers eager to help with Jamaica’s food security
- World Hunger Day: One in Five Canadian Children are Food Insecure, New Campaign Launches to Spark Conversations at Home and at School
- Central Americans fleeing due to hunger, food insecurity: Harris
- Census shows more Americans are going hungry during Coronavirus Pandemic
- Argentina’s poorest barrios caught between coronavirus and hunger
- IICA establishes Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas
- Trump Froze Aid To Guatemala. Now Programs Are Shutting Down
- The Caribbean’s First E-Agriculture Platform Is To Be Launched This Year
- Food waste in Canada is staggering. But is it our fault?
- Community gardens help tackle food insecurity
- Agro-Forestry Project Brings Blue-Green Therapy To Barbados
- Fighting food waste in Argentina by delivering it to those in need
- Only Acting Together Can We Stop the Rise in Malnutrition
- Hunger and Obesity on the Rise in Latin America and the Caribbean for Third Year in a Row
- The Hungry Caravan
- Tackling food waste: Local organization opens community fridges in the GTA
- Barakah Box food bank helps Hamilton refugees access halal food
- Drought in Central America straining food supply of more than 2 million people
- Agriculture Minister Says Plant Health Fundamental to Food Security
- Food insecurity rising in Argentina, sparking protest and food-emergency bill
- One in two Indigenous children in danger of going to school hungry
- Agri economist concerned over food security problems
- Millions of children missing school in Venezuela’s hunger crisis
- Jamaican official urges unity among Latin American and Caribbean states to address food security
- Edmonton chef cooking up a plan to boost food security
- Students tackle food security issue
- Venezuelans report big weight losses in 2017 as hunger hits
- Brazil in danger of being reinstated on the UN’s World Hunger Map
- New Montreal food policy council will tackle important issues
- As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger
- To combat hunger, Venezuelans in the U.S. ship food to relatives
- Hunger and Obesity on the Rise in Latin America, UN Food Body Warns
- Hurricane Irma Devastated Already Vulnerable Agriculture in Haiti
- The Faces of Venezuelan Hunger
Asia
- Afghanistan faces greater hunger this winter
- Panellists on IWMI dialogue discuss how Pakistan can achieve food, water and food security
- Desert Locusts Swarm in India – Worst in 27 Years
- Kerala State successful in fight against Corona Virus
- Workers Go Hungry As Central Asia’s Largest Bazaar Stands Empty
- Poverty punished as Philippines gets tough in virus pandemic
- Why South Korea Is Sending $8 Million In Food Aid To North Korea
- What North Korea’s Markets Could Tell Us About Its Food Security
- Seven-Eleven leads Japan’s drive to cut food waste
- The Country Winning The Battle On Food Waste
- The Food Insecurity Of North Korea
- Locals face graver food insecurity in Bangladesh
- Impact of a National Early Childhood Development Program on Schooling Attainment
- North Korea warns of food crisis, slashes rations before next leaders’ summit
- How Blockchain Can Be Used to Address Food Security in India
- Nearly six thousand Afghan farming families severely affected by drought targeted for emergency assistance
- Hunger risk for tamariki
- India Not On Track To Reach 2025 Nutrition Targets Or Achieve Zero Hunger By 2030
- Top 10 Facts About Hunger in the Philippines
- Is climate change pushing the world into hunger?
- Astana opens Islamic Organisation for Food Security headquarters
- Asia’s food systems are under pressure study shows
- Maintaining Food Security, Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister Focuses on Four Targets
- Drought raises food security fears in Afghanistan
- Food and Nutrition Security in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Prospects
- A step towards hunger-free India
- Red Cross warns of food crisis in N. Korea as crops fail in heat
- China’s food security threatened by drastic drop in crop varieties
- Republic of Marshall Islands strengthens food security measures ahead of future droughts
- Roti Bank: where leftovers satiate hunger of the poor
- Pacific regional food security atlas launched to reach the most vulnerable
- Vietnam strives to eradicate hunger, lower child malnutrition rate
- Afghans fleeing conflict face worsening hunger
- Video: Tajikistan Faces Epidemic Of Childhood Malnutrition
- U.N. food agency chief says peace deal would help ordinary North Koreans
- Only a cohesive action plan can tackle the menacing epidemic of malnutrition and food insecurity in Pakistan
- Aid Groups Seek Greater Support for Rohingya Refugees Facing Trauma, Hunger
- Indonesia is hungry for a better food policy
- Malnutrition Not Just a Poor Country Problem
- Thailand food security report points to increasing malnourishment and obesity in Thailand
- Food security project to benefit 3512 people
- World Food Programme Lauds Pakistan For Improving Food Security
- Flour Power: Turkmenistan Mulling ‘Surplus Confiscation’ Amid Shortage
- How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
- One Man’s Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India
- ‘Closed loop’ urban farm in Singapore tackles food waste with insects
- Fisheries crucial for food security in Myanmar
- 40,000 Rohingya Children Face Malnutrition, Need Life-Saving Aid
- Why Is It So Hard To Solve The Hunger Problem In India?
- Starving civilians and suicide bombings: The terrible truth of liberating Mosul
- Hundreds of people trapped in the southern Philippines city of Marawi are on the verge of starvation
- Yemen spiraling toward ‘total collapse’ as world watches, UN warns
- Yemen at ‘point of no return’ as conflict leaves almost 7 million close to famine
- ‘We had nothing to give him’: the human cost of malnutrition in Maharashtra
- Threat of famine looms in Yemen
- UN says dairy a potential ally in Asian nutrition challenges
- Is the Hunger Challenge in Asia-Pacific Going Unnoticed?
- Indians rush frantically to launder their black money
- How Narenda Modi of India plans to wipe out black market money
- Lower caste Indian singer embraces centuries-old slur. Caste pride is driving her success.
- Why water war has broken out in India’s Silicon Valley
- Bangladeshi farmers drown in debt as floods destroy crops
- Drought migrants flee to India’s cities
- Investing to nourish India’s cities
- Why land means hope for India’s vulnerable single women
- Hunger, child marriage, prostitution – India drought hurts women, low-caste Dalits more
- Villagers just protected a sacred forest outside India’s polluted capital
- The Philippines: Militancy rising as peace talks stall
- Poor policies blamed as India reels from drought, hardship
- Are indigenous Filipinos being murdered for anti-mine activism? How paramilitaries rule by fear in Mindanao
- Reporting on life, death, and corruption in Southeast Asia
- The new normal in Fata
- Nepal: Why are so many young women killing themselves?
- Thousands of farmer suicides prompt India to set up $1.3bn crop insurance scheme
- India needs to “Save its Daughters” through education and gender equality. India ranks 130th of 155 countries in newly released gender inequality index.
- Global grocer supply chains tied to slave-peeled shrimp
- Global grocer supply chains tied to slave-peeled shrimp
- Myanmar military still big power despite opposition victory
- Bangladesh’s climate change migrants
- India’s huge need for electricity is a problem for the planet
- China ends one-child policy, allowing families two children
- Al Jazeera investigation reveals Myanmar government triggered deadly communal violence for political gain
- Implementing the right to food: The debate over India’s new national food security law
- Nearly $100 billion flowed iIllegally through Myanmar from 1960 to 2013
- India targets tax evaders who hide ‘black money’ at home and abroad. A new law imposing stiff tax penalties and up to 10 years in prison has created panic among India’s elite.
- Living like a fugitive: The attempted killing of a famed Pakistani newsman is one example of a widespread backlash
- Syria increasingly disintegrates in crucible of war
- UN slashes food aid to Syrian refugees
- Bangladesh poverty group founder wins World Food Prize
- The first 1000 days
- North Korea says it’s facing its worst drought in a century
- Lessons from an Indian tribe on how to manage the food-forest nexus
- In India, a broken system leaves a ‘broken’ people powerless
- Aid agencies pour into Nepal – and then what?
- Nepal terrorized by aftershocks, hampering relief efforts
- Farmer’s public suicide in India opens debate over compassion and climate
- Eritrea and North Korea are the world’s most censored countries, advocacy group says
- Christians who use the language of Jesus being uprooted by Islamic State
- In China’s Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
- In rural India, farmers will not sell their land for others to develop, so Indian government wants to force them to sell
- Chinese riot police crush grasslands protest over chemical pollution
- Photo feature: Yemeni civilians in the crossfire
- Fighting in Yemen is creating a humanitarian crisis
- UNICEF warns lack of toilets in Pakistan tied to stunting
- On the shores of the Arabian Sea, pollution erodes a way of life
- UN has failed Syria: NGOs
- Syria: Four years on, an unimaginable toll
- Alienation and violence: Impact of Syria crisis report 2014
- UN: World eating too much sugar; cut to 5-10 percent of diet
- Is Syria conflict a case study for climate change and hunger-related conflict?
- Study says pregnant women in India are dangerously underweight
- Death by chocolate: the sugar-fueled diabetes surge in South Asia
- Emergency aid projects in Iraq face closure due to funding shortfall
- Ex movie star and convicted politician still running her Indian state
- China’s urban sprawl raises key question: can it feed its people? Plans for air hub twice the size of Heathrow will destroy hundreds of farms near Beijing as observers warn unchecked urbanisation will affect food production
- Amid complaints in India, a real estate deal in Manhattan
- ‘One is enough’: Chinese families lukewarm over easing of one-child policy
- India’s ‘manual scavengers’ rise up against caste discrimination
- Children starving to death in Pakistan’s drought-struck Tharparkar District
- Hungry for justice: Social mobilization on the right to food in India
- WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security
- WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security.
- US-India agreement on stockpiles of food revives a trade deal
- US gives $27 million to help children in Laos eat and learn in school
- Bangladeshi ‘char dwellers’ in search of higher ground
- Malala Yousafzai says she yearns to be ‘normal,’ despite fame — and now Nobel
- Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi has long campaigned against child labor
- Two champions of children are given the Nobel Peace Prize
- Sri Lanka: thirsty land, hungry people
- Sugar industry highlights conflicts over trade policy and land
- Farming on sandbars in Bangladesh
- More investment needed to reduce high levels of stunting in Timor-Leste
- Class war: Thailand’s military coup. Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda
- Child trafficking rampant in poor Indian villages
- Thai military declares a coup, detains key political leaders
- Laos “land grabs” drive subsistence farmers into deeper poverty
- North Korea’s capital, with its water parks and new buildings, coddles the elite
- Women, bought and sold in Nepal
- Malnutrition, disease rising in camps of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims, who are virtual prisoners in the camps
- Big budgets, little oversight in war zones
- Borrowed time on disappearing land: Facing rising seas, Bangladesh confronts the consequences of climate change
- Bangladesh’s political unrest threatens economic gains, democracy
- Poor state of India’s food subsidies
- Hope, and homes, crumbling on many Indian tea plantations
- Energy shortages force Pakistanis to scavenge for wood, threatening tree canopy
- For South Korea’s old, a return to poverty as Confucian filial piety weakens
- Indian rights groups say Khobragade case shows callousness toward domestic workers
- Politicians, Muslim scholars join vaccination effort as violence hinders Pakistan polio drive
- Afghanistan’s worsening, and baffling, hunger crisis
- North Korea: Malnutrition persists
- Challenge for the government: 4 million are displaced, and hunger grows
- Philippine typhoon death toll feared in thousands
- As US withdraws from Afghanistan, poppy trade it spent billions fighting still flourishes
- After troops leave, US to lose access to Afghan reconstruction projects worth billions
- Policing village moral codes as women stream to India’s cities
- Pakistan’s Musharraf charged in Bhutto killing
- India likely to approve program guaranteeing 800 million a right to food, but doubts persist
- In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo
- CIA closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to emerge from the Cold War to a counterterrorism force with its own prisons, paramilitary teams and armed Predator drones
- Senior Pakistani Taliban leader ‘shocked’ by Malala attack
- India undergoing silent rights revolution as laws guarantee social services
- Malala Yousafzai speaks defiantly in support of education for girls around the world
- For Pakistani girls, just going to class is a risk (slideshow)
- Siege by Taliban strains Pakistani girls’ schools
- The food security debate in India (opinion)
- Ahead of elections, India’s cabinet establishes food security program that grants the right to food
- US drone strikes more deadly to Afghan civilians than manned aircraft, adviser says. Study focusing on one year of conflict contradicts claims that robotic planes are more precise than manned counterparts.
- Cheap, trendy ‘fast fashion’ in demand, despite factory dangers
- US suspends Bangladesh’s trade privileges due to labor concerns
- In New Delhi, a help line for women is flooded with calls
- US unions press to end special trade status for Bangladesh
- Needing pork, China is to buy a US supplier, Smithfield Foods
- Standards clash in Bangladesh reforms
- China’s prostitutes routinely extorted, abused by police, report says
- In Timbuktu, conflict shatters a city’s soul
- ILO, World Bank demand labor changes in Bangladesh
- Some retailers rethink role in Bangladesh
- Death toll rises in Bangladesh building collapse
- In hard times, open dissent and repression rise in Vietnam
- China cracks down on anti-corruption activists
- Here’s how lousy life is in North Korea
- India states fight over river usage
- Rethinking food insecurity in Nepal’s Karnali region
- Microsavings programs build wealth, pennies at a time
- Veteran Burmese activist Win Tin says democracy icon Suu Kyi is too conciliatory toward the military
- A flurry of fires in Bangladesh raise concerns over garment-worker safety
- Clashes over land seizures batter the police in Myanmar
- Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land. Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.
- The right to food in Bangladesh
- Pollution rising, Chinese fear for soil and food
- Woman dies after gang rape that galvanized India
- Indian women march: “That girl could have been any one of us”
- Children of China’s ‘Immortals’ are new capitalist elite
- Dangers on the streets of India, shape lives, stifle dreams of country’s young women
- How real are Myanmar’s reforms?
- Opposition to labor camps widens in China
- Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese leader
- ‘Mullah Radio’ believed to be behind attack on Pakistani schoolgirl
- Malala Yousafzai: Taliban shooting victim flown to UK
- Rural India marches on Delhi over landless poor
- Taliban gun down girl who spoke up for rights
- Cambodia: Rural poor lose out on land deals
- Afghanistan: How do you tackle widespread malnutrition in a poor, corrupt country at war?
- Land disputes in Cambodia focus ire on Chinese investors
- Coal lease scandal poses a riddle: will India ever be able to tackle corruption?
- How corruption affects the poor children of India
- Asia’s Economic Crisis
- 30% of children in southern Afghanistan malnourished, report says
- Survival without adult supervision: stark reality in rural Bihar
- Activists in India attempt to rescue children from being sold into slavery
- Pakistan: Debt bondage or education?
- Pakistan jails doctor who helped to find Bin Laden
- Afghanistan: Debt bondage ensnares entire families
- South Korean report details alleged atrocities at North Korea’s prison camps
- Fallout of Bin Laden raid: Aid groups in Pakistan are suspect
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West
- Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai family connections–the close relatives of former Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai and his wife, Gu Kailai, may have profited from the couple’s political influence
- As China official Bo Xilai rose, his family’s wealth grew
- Murder aside, China inquiry puts couple’s wealth on trial
- Across India, nepotism as a way of life
- Maid’s cries cast light on child labor in India
- Myanmar poll: Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD sweeps by-elections
- Pakistan schoolboy’s self-immolation over school uniform raises alarm over poverty
- US suspends food assistance to North Korea
- Intractable Afghan graft hampering US strategy–Afghan government has yet to prosecute a high-level corruption case
- Pentagon commander says US special forces in India and four other Asian countries
- North Korea agrees to suspend some nuclear activities and missile tests in exchange for US food aid
- Nepal’s Monsanto debate spotlights seed sovereignty
- Developed world failing on climate funds pledge, says Bangladeshi minister
- Lentils in Nepal(short video)
- Vietnam: From rice to shrimps and ginger – adapting to saltwater intrusion caused by rising sea levels
- In one slum, misery, work, politics, and hope
- Typhoon kills 1000 in Philippines
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies; hundreds of thousands starved as police state kept the world on edge
- North Korea resume talks on food aid
- Three million Afghans face hunger as winter looms–aid groups
- As Pakistan’s population soars, contraceptives remain a hard sell
- How fear drove world rice markets insane
- Food: Causes of high and fluctuating food prices
- Speculation on food commodities may harm the hungry
- Nepal: Gender discrimination fuels malnutrition
- Scanning 2.4 billion eyes, India tries to connect poor to growth
- Afghan widows form community on Kabul hill
- Pakistan: Hunger stalks millions as food insecurity grows. The cause is the rise in food prices combined with extreme poverty; food is available, but poor people can’t afford enough of it to avoid hunger. Almost half of the population is food insecure, according to the best estimate.
- Nepal: No clear way out of servitude for girls sent to work as household servants
- International Labor Organization passes convention giving rights to domestic workers
- Afghanistan worst place in the world for women, but India in top five. Survey shows Congo, Pakistan and Somalia also fail females, with rape, poverty and infanticide rife.
- Pakistan: Selling children to pay off a debt
- In India, fresh clashes over rural land as farmers stand up to government
- US to send envoy to North Korea to consider food aid
- Very large Indian program to help poor and hungry people ‘beset by corruption’ World Bank says
- Pakistan: Driven out of Kurram Agency by violence
- North Korea, after a famine that killed nearly one million people in the 1990s, now nears the brink of a second food disaster with 3.5 million people severely malnourished and at risk of starvation, World Food Program says
- US aid plan for Pakistan is floundering
- Microfinance institutions in Bangladesh pushed loans, major NGO admits
- North Korea’s pleas for food aid draw suspicion
- China activist Liu Xianbin jailed for 10 years
- After Japan’s quake and tsunami, freezing weather threatens relief efforts. Many of those hit by the disaster lack blankets, food and fuel, raising fears of a quiet but deadly humanitarian crisis
- Last defense at troubled reactors: 50 Japanese workers
- Japan steps closer to a full blown nuclear catastrophe
- As other authoritarian leaders fall, North Korea pushes ahead with succession plan
- Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s sole Christian minister, is assassinated in Islamabad –the second liberal minister killed this year who spoke out against anti-blasphemy laws
- Vietnam struggles to cope with rising prices
- India announces changes to its subsidies; will hand out cash to its poor
- North Korea sends SOS to world to feed its starving people
- Galloping growth, and hunger in India
- How India feeds 120 million kids a day
- India court orders Dehli government to provide shelters for destitute pregnant women so that they can receive care while giving birth
- In China, human costs are built Into an iPad
- Pakistan: Hundreds of women die for “honor” each year
- Ravindra Misal: Trying to help some of India’s poor and caste-restricted young (and himself) achieve upward mobility by beginning to learn the ways of those in higher strata of society
- In India, a struggle for moderation as a young Moslem woman quietly battles extremism
- Necessity pushes Pakistani women into jobs and peril
- India’s battle against hunger beset by problems of delivery and corruption. Malnutrition is on the rise, despite nutrition rehabilitation centers and ration shops
- Telecom scandal erupts in India: corruption and ‘crony capitalism’ appear to have cost the Indian government as much as US$40 billion in lost cell phone spectrum rights
- The Indian state of Andhra Pradesh empowers the poor to fight corruption
- Democracy leader Suu Kyi urges ‘real genuine talks’ in Burma
- Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi freed in Rangoon as crowds celebrate
- Burmese election won by military-backed party. Opposition parties concede defeat to USDP but accuse junta of fraud as Barack Obama says election was stolen.
- China, India, Brazil have voting rights increased at the International Monetary Fund
- Neighboring countries ponder a post-occupation Afghanistan
- In India, greed creeps into microlending, critics say
- Microenterprise for women in India (4 minute video)
- Gaining rights for women workers in Cambodia (video)
- Nobel peace prize given to jailed Chinese dissident
- China, Brazil are fueling world economic growth
- US warns China on currency policy
- Generals in Pakistan push for shakeup of government
- North Koreans boost power of ruler’s kin
- Egypt and thirsty neighbors are at odds over Nile
- India and China’s plans to dam rivers before they flow through Bangladesh could destroy nation’s agriculture
- Philippine workers overseas toil far from home, dream of their return to their country, and send home income representing 10 percent of the total Philippine national product
- Pakistan: What did you eat today?
- Upstarts chip away at the power of Pakistani elite
- Indian government agency fights US companies trying to copyright their versions of yoga. Yoga is ancient collective knowledge and should be available for use by anyone, agency says
- India tries using cash payments to slow birthrates
- India asks: Should poor people have a right to food?
- Pakistan floods: Rescuers aim to reach stranded victims
- Bangladesh: Unemployment, food prices, high population growth spur growing hunger
- Controlling the government, Pakistan’s elite pay few taxes, widening the vast gap between rich and poor, hindering development, and creating conditions that have sparked insurgency
- North Korea’s giant leap backwards: Last year’s disastrous currency reform wiped out savings and caused healthcare to collapse–now many fear another famine
- Indonesia: Demand for palm oil fuels land-grabbing
- Thai general linked to protests is shot
- Families struggle as 6 million Indonesian women work abroad
- Pakistan: A family of 9, living on $1.20 a day
- Sri Lanka: Muslims and Tamils deal with the past
- Pakistan government failed to do enough to protect former president Benazir Bhutto and failed to properly investigate her murder, UN commission finds
- People in Jakarta’s slums must pay nearly $1 per day for fresh water while living on less than $2 per day, and bath and wash clothes in murky gray water from fish ponds
- Dams along Mekong River borders not thought by farmers or fishermen to ease drought
- In Timor-Leste, government and population cope between harvests
- El Niño blamed for unprecedented drought in Vietnam
- Rio Tinto executives in China admit taking bribes
- One sugar plantation–owned by the family of ex-President Aquino–illustrates the contentious path of land reform in the Philippines
- The World Bank and other donors must do more to combat growing water shortages and poor sanitation in developing countries
- Thai court seizes $1.4 billion from ex-premier
- Amid starvation, runaway inflation, and food shortages in the Army, North Korea fires top economic officials, South Korean press reports
- Burmese officials sentenced to death for revealing government visits to Russia and North Korea and information about military tunnels
- Indonesia: Internet facilitates illegal kidney trade–Thomas sells kidney through internet website to pay for mother’s hospitalization
- North Korean currency crackdown fuels food shortages; government’s aim is to decrease reliance on markets, which now provide about half of North Korea’s food, but which also represent an alternative source of economic, and thus political, power
- With harsh sentence of Liu Xiaobo, China threatens democracy and human rights activists and signals to the West that its concerns don’t matter much
- Pastoralism unraveling in Mongolia due to low wool prices and high number of goats, creating environmental damage
- Bangladesh: over half of all children living in poverty
- In Nobel Peace Prize lecture, Yunus says poverty is a threat to peace, calls for development assistance to create corporations owned by poor people
- Selling a Kidney to Escape Desperate Poverty Does Not Suceed, JAMA Study Finds
Australia
- The Brand Agency & Foodbank Fight Hunger This Christmas With Empty Packet Of Cereal
- Hunger in the lucky country – charities step in where government fails
Books & Media Reviews
- Book Review: We Fed an Island – the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
- Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine
- USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations
- Film Mischaracterizes Humanitarian Aid Work
- Stalled Progress Against Hunger for Third Consecutive Year
- Documentary Looks Back at Norman Borlaug’s Career
- Veterans Day Lessons for Current Livelihood Crisis
- A Biblical Surge of Miscommunication
- Pandemics and Hunger: Part 2 of Our Interview with Dr. Ron Waldman
- WHES Loses a Key Board Member
- Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
- ‘How to Feed the World’ offers practical, positive solutions to food insecurity
- 26 Films Every Food Activist Must Watch
- Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations
- Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition
- The First 1000 Days: A crucial time for mothers and children—and the world
- The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
- Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A guide to measurement
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- World Hunger: 10 Myths
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- Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
- The Good Lie (movie)
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- Good Food: Grounded Practical Theory
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- Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West
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- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development
- Earth Grab: Geopiracy, the New Biomassters, and Capturing Climate Genes
- The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- UNWARRANTED INFLUENCE Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex
- PROPHETS OF WAR Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
- We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
- Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
- Monetization of Food Aid: Reconsidering U.S. Policy and Practice
- Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world
- Economics for Everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
- The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- The World’s Banker
- Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
- The Politics of Food
- Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries
- World Hunger: 12 Myths
- Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention
- Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
- Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World
- The Globalization of Poverty
- Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
- Changing Politics of Hunger: 1999
- Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
- Human Nutrition in the Developing World
- Attacking Poverty: The World Bank World Development Report
- Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge
- Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
- The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International Charity
- The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits
- When Women Flourish….We Can End Hunger
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History
- The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavor
- All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
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- WHES Undertakes Research about Attacks Against Food & Nutrition in Humanitarian Aid
- As Russia quits Black Sea Grain Deal, Food Prices Rise
- WORLD FOOD PROGRAM speaks on Feeding those in need
- Black Sea Grain Initiative, to Expire 18 March 2023, in Peril
- Hunger Hotspots; Lebanon
- World Bank Releases New Report on Ukraine War and Global Food Crisis
- UN/WFP – Ukraine Conflict’s Implications for Global Food Security
- UN Sanctions Report Accuses Yemeni Government and Houthi Opposition of Corruption.
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- USAID Administrator Power discusses food insecurity with colleagues
- JANUARY UPDATE to HUNGER HOTSPOTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
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- Remembering Don Kennedy, Human Biologist
- World Hunger Education Service (WHES) Celebrates Antonio Gayoso’s Long Career as Board Member
- Global Food Crisis Grows as Result of Ongoing War in Ukraine
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- World Food Programmes Releases Report on Hunger Hotspots
- WORLD FOOD DAY OCTOBER 16, 2021
- Food security projected to improve for 76 low- and middle-income countries by 2031
- Recognizing Aquaculture “Pond to Pot” as a Food Security Game-Changer for Many
- UNICEF warns about food crisis in the world
- Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises
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- 25 Ways to Reduce Food Waste
- The US food system creates hunger and debt – but there is another way
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- World Food Prize Laureates Appeal for Greater US Leadership to End World Hunger
- David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, Warns of Famine in Nobel Prize Speech
- The cost of a plate of food 2020
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Food Security
- England footballer raises funds for hungry children
- A U.N. Agency Lauded for Its Work Faces a Funding Shortage
- World Food Day 2020
- World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
- Conflict Creates Hunger
- Beirut port blast accelerates separate crisis: Hunger
- E-book: COVID-19 and Global Food Security
- Parents in Lebanon Barter on Facebook through Food Crisis
- World Public Health Nutrition Association Offers $10,000 Prize in Writing Contest
- USAID Promotes Urgency as Pandemic Hides a Nutrition Crisis
- ‘Country-driven’ approach needed to limit COVID-19 damage to food security
- Oxfam Warns More could Die from Hunger Than Corona Virus Disease
- Podcast: Hacking world hunger during coronavirus
- UN Secretary General Warns of Worst Food Crisis in 50 Years
- On World Hunger Day 2020, Malnutrition Still Leading Cause of Death in World
- Coronavirus Triggers World Food Crisis
- Food security in the time of coronavirus: A Eurasianet briefing
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- As Food Waste and Insecurity Spike, ReFED’s COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund Aims to Spark Change Beyond the Pandemic
- Addressing COVID-19 impacts on fish and aquatic food systems
- 23 Organizations Eliminating Food Waste During COVID-19
- Podcast: BBC The Food Chain: Death by coronavirus or hunger?
- WFP Warns of Increased Famines and Humanitarian Catastrophe this Year in Global Food Crises Report
- COVID-19 threatens food security of low-income Canadians
- As aid groups scramble to contain COVID-19, malnutrition set to increase
- We Need a Global Stimulus Package to Avoid a COVID-19 Hunger Crisis
- Preventing global food crisis caused by COVID-19
- Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how COVID-19 may Impact Food and Nutrition Security
- How Will Coronavirus Affect Our Food? The Pandemic and Our food Systems, a Dispatch From Mexico
- COVID-19 and Food Security
- On Resilience: Hunger, Food and Disease Outbreaks
- In Remembrance of Dr. Peter Salama
- New Planning Tool – WFP’s HungerMap
- An Interview with David Nabarro
- Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows
- In photos: Finding food on the front line of climate change
- The many faces of global hunger – in pictures
- One in three young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
- Eight Innovations Ending Food Loss
- Public health movement leader David Sanders dies at 74
- Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger
- Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns
- UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide
- THE ARGUMENT FOR PROTECTING WILD FOODS
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- Why is global hunger on the rise? UN economists explain a new answer
- New UN State of Food Security report released
- The climate crisis is inherently unfair. These 9 countries will get hit especially hard as the globe heats up.
- Who are the world’s food insecure? Identifying the risk factors of food insecurity around the world
- Malnutrition, a global problem in search of global solutions
- Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic
- Emissions and microplastics: How food waste hurts the environment
- Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns, as 113 million go hungry
- Food banks risk being ‘captured’ by corporate PR drive, say activists
- Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare
- How Climate Change Could Knock Fish Off of Dinner Plates
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- Cutting food waste: game-changing fund opens
- Yemen’s food crisis 10 times worse than South Sudan, says UN
- Western Sidney University invests $5m into food security research
- We’re becoming desensitised to poverty in the UK – it’s time the government made food a basic right
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- McRaven and McCaul: National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity
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- 2018 World Food Prize laureates: Ending malnutrition for mothers and young children
- This ad shows the true cost of world hunger
- Drive to tackle drought in agricultural data launched, as global hunger rises
- Climate Change Undermining Global Efforts to Eradicate Hunger
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- World hunger levels rise for third year running: U.N.
- Starvation: a weapon of war that could kill 590,000 children by the end of 2018
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- Food waste: alarming rise will see 66 tonnes thrown away every second
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- Hunger Fighters Interview: The Borgen Project
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- Q&A: The World Bank’s pivot to fragile states
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- Bill And Melinda Gates Pledge $170 Million To Women’s Economic Empowerment
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- How France became a global leader in curbing food waste
- Africa: 10 Humanitarian Crises to Look Out for in 2018
- The year’s top development stories: 2017 in review
- Across The World, If You Eat For Your Health, You’ll Help The Planet
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- Study found cash is best when tackling hunger caused by drought
- UN Warns Manage Climate Risks or Face Much More Hunger by 2050
- UN Chief: Worldwide Famine Averted, but Numbers of Hungry Growing
- Iraq takes steps to save Mosul livestock after Islamic State’s rule
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- Why World Hunger Isn’t Going Away As Fast As We’d Hoped
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- How Climate Change Is Making Hunger Worse Around The World
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- Venezuelan families scavenge for food to survive hunger
- Warriors Against Waste: These Restaurants And Bars Are Aiming For Zero
- Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
- ‘Alarm bells we cannot ignore’: world hunger rising for first time this century
- How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste and Hunger in New Zealand
- World Food Programme using chatbots to monitor hunger in hard-to-reach areas
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- Why It’s So Hard To Stop The World’s Looming Famines
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- Unmasking hidden hunger in the developed world
- Poll reveals 85% of Americans oblivious to hunger in Africa and Middle East
- PODCAST: People Are Starving
- Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade
- UN refugee agency: Record 65.6 million people displaced worldwide
- BRICS countries well placed for a leadership role in helping eradicate global hunger and poverty by 2030
- VIDEO: Empowering Women Would Help End World Hunger
- Five myths about famine
- UN WFP, FAO chiefs unite to lobby for famine relief
- The U.N. asked for billions to avert four hunger crises. The money didn’t arrive
- Uber for Tractors is Really a Thing in Developing Countries
- On World Hunger Day, a look at why so many people don’t get enough food
- Ethiopia’s Tedros to be next leader of UN health agency
- Food waste is the world’s dumbest environmental problem
- Op Ed-More than Malnutrition: Famine as Social Crisis
- Yemen: the Forgotten Famine
- Opinion: Famine: Where is the Rage?
- This fundamental global problem touches everything from farming to technology
- The great global food gap: Families around the world photographed with weekly shopping as they reveal cost ranges from £3.20 to £320
- Why Food Insecurity ‘Over There’ Matters Right Here
- How is famine declared?
- Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA
- Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
- U.N.’s Famine Appeal Is Billions Shy of Goal
- Global Food Policy Report 2017
- UN agencies in Rome step up on gender equality to end hunger and poverty
- Famine: what does it really mean and how do aid workers treat it?
- Four famines mean 20 million may starve in the next six months
- Why Do We Work So Hard To Hide Hunger?
- A Food Secure Future: Warding Off Instability And Conflict
- Early warning, early action: The innovations changing food crisis management
- Scale up or cut back? Humanitarian aid grapples with growing funding gap
- Latin America has most unequal land distribution, Colombia fares worst, Oxfam study says
- Tackling hunger requires addressing the challenge in fragile states
- Hungry Venezuelans flee in boats to escape economic collapse
- You may be higher up the global wealth pyramid than you think
- Avocados imperil Monarch butterflies’ winter home in Mexico
- The U.S. foreign-aid budget, visualized
- Hurricane Matthew makes old problems worse for Haitians
- Battle for Islamic State stronghold could trigger a new crisis: A million displaced Iraqis
- U.N. refugee summits fall short for children
- U.N. refugee summit: No cause for comfort
- Nearly 50 million children “uprooted” worldwide – UNICEF
- Gang violence in Central America is a humanitarian crisis. Aid agencies and donors need to do more.
- Ships bring your coffee, snack and TV set, but also pests and diseases
- Protracted conflicts causing alarming spikes in severe hunger
- Food security of developing countries expected to improve through 2026 as food prices fall and incomes rise
- Ending extreme poverty: an interview with economist Ana Revenga
- Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle
- Pope Francis’ speech at World Food Program
- The World Humanitarian Summit: winners and losers
- Pope Francis set to visit UN Agency to push fight against hunger
- May 28th is World Hunger Day!
- Latin America to tackle dual problems of hunger and obesity: U.N.
- Doctors Without Borders brands humanitarian summit ‘a fig-leaf of good intentions’ as it pulls out.
- Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves. As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities.
- Honduras arrests 4 men in killing of Berta Cáceres, indigenous activist
- The global land rights struggle is intensifying
- Mapped: The world at war
- Land tenure still a problem for women in Latin America
- Failing states: Many problems, few solutions
- A daughter takes up her slain mother’s activism
- World Bank Facts & Figures
- Overpopulation, overconsumption in pictures
- El Niño upsets seasons and upends lives worldwide.WHO estimates that changes induced by El Niño are putting 60 million people at increased risk of malnutrition and illnesses.
- Sergio Arellano Stark, driver of the ‘Caravan of Death’ (a helicopter-borne killing squad) under Pinochet, dies at 94
- U.N. says 34 countries don’t have enough food for their people
- Berta Lives! The life and legacy of Berta Cáceres
- Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws
- Eating leaves, and other ways besieged Syrians try to survive
- More than half a million could die as climate change impacts diet – report.New research shows global warming’s effect on the quality of food available could kill more than 500,000 people a year around the world by 2050
- Berta Cáceres, indigenous activist, is killed in Honduras
- Decline of pollinators poses threat to world’s food supply, report says
- Pope Francis ends his Mexico tour praying for migrants at the U.S. border
- U.S. closing a loophole on products tied to slaves
- At Mass, Pope Francis embraces ‘misunderstood’ of Mexico
- In Mexican slum, Pope Francis laments economic gap
- Step by step on a desperate trek of migrants through Mexico
- Billions locked in poverty by public sector corruption, report shows. 2015 index of perceived corruption, which ranked Somalia as the worst offender, says more than 6 billion people live in countries where corruption is rife
- One fish, two fish, no fish: Rebuilding of fish stocks urgently needed
- “The workers of San Quintín Valley are no longer willing to be invisible”
- Low food prices but poor still go hungry
- Food firms slow to address twin scourges of undernutrition and obesity. Nutrition index says food and drink industry moving too slowly in providing healthy food, and criticises marketing of breast milk substitutes
- Briefing: All you need to know about sieges in Syria
- Syrian government to allow aid, loosening the stranglehold on the starving city of Madaya
- The world’s clogged refugee system
- Military conflicts threaten to undermine battle against rural poverty
- The most unconventional weapon in Syria: Wheat
- 60 million people have been forced to flee war
- Lack of food means Syrian children face ‘irreversible’ health issues, says U.N. The U.N.’s World Food Program warns that funding problems mean vulnerable groups in Syria and neighbouring countries are not getting critical nutrients
- Delegates at climate talks focus on saving the world’s forests
- Bye, bye bananas
- USDA report warns climate change likely to impede progress on global food security
- Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say. Experts point to damage caused by erosion and pollution, raising major concerns about degraded soil amid surging global demand for food.
- In the Amazon, the ‘world’s most endangered tribe’ has few options
- Latin American legislators find new paths to fight hunger
- Cotton is one of the most important fibre crops in the global textile industry. But many of the cotton farmers at the bottom of the very lucrative garment industry supply chain, do not receive a living income.
- Can farms be good for nature without being organic? The organic-or-not debate ignores a crucial further option. Setting aside tracts of land for wildlife habitat can benefit bees, butterflies and plants without harming crop yields.
- TIAA-CREF, U.S. investment giant, accused of land grabs in Brazil
- Thirty million children, far from home. Here are three of them.
- Terrace farming–an ancient indigenous model for food security
- Climate change and conflict: it’s complicated. Sharing scarce water resourses will be major issue.
- 2015 Global Hunger Index released
- 2015 Global Hunger Index released
- The Right to Food and Nutrition 2015 released
- The Right to Food and Nutrition 2015 released
- International food security assessment: Past progress and prospects through 2025
- International food security assessment: Past progress and prospects through 2025
- Life in the Islamic State: Spoils for the rulers, terror for the ruled
- Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change study says. Ten percent of land in 64 countries analysed is owned by indigenous people and local communities, and 8 percent is controlled or managed by them, yet they claim or have customary use of as much as 65 percent of the world’s land area.
- Why world leaders dined on trash at the U.N.
- Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vaults
- New test for Guatemala’s protest movement: Improving citizens’ lives
- Malnutrition linked to nearly half of deaths among under-fives. Global nutrition study claims poor diet affects 161 million children and 1.9 billion adults and calls for more indicators in sustainable development goals.
- Kale or steak? Change in diet key to U.N. plan to end hunger by 2030
- World food prices fall sharply in August, extending slide
- Women’s prospects limited by law in 155 countries, World Bank study finds. Two decades after Beijing declaration on gender equality, women’s economic opportunities and working rights still widely subject to restrictive legislation.
- How a peaceful political uprising happened in war-scarred Guatemala
- UN agency forced to cut food aid to 229,000 Syrian refugees
- Guatemalan president quits amid corruption scandal
- As tragedies shock Europe, a bigger refugee crisis looms in the Middle East
- Guatemala’s corruption investigations make swift strides
- Expanding web of scandal in Brazil threatens further upheaval
- Mexico’s anti-poverty programs are losing the battle
- Mapped: A world at war
- Beyond brothels: Farms and fisheries are frontier of human trafficking
- An additional $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty over a 15 year period will end chronic hunger, new UN estimates show
- Pope calls for ‘globalization of hope,’ warns against temptations of materialism during South American tour
- Spread of global conflict transforming humanitarian work, says Red Cross chief
- What progress has been made on each of the millennium development goals?
- UN: 15-year push ends extreme poverty for a billion people. Ban Ki-moon hails achievements of millennium development goals but warns world still riven by inequality
- The humanitarian economy: Where is all the money going?
- Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects
- A road map for eradicating world hunger
- Pope Francis, in sweeping encyclical, calls for swift action on climate change
- 60 million people fleeing chaotic lands, UN says
- Inequality blocks further reduction in child mortality in Latin America
- U.N. reports about 200 million fewer hungry people than in 1990
- Laissez faire water laws threaten family farming in Chile
- Latin America’s relative success in fighting hunger
- Salvadorans flock to honor beloved Archbishop on path to sainthood
- Honor comes late to Óscar Romero, a martyr for the poor
- Agriculture and cattle ranching threatening global rainforests
- Urban slums a deathtrap for poor children
- Living the indigenous way, from the jungles to the mountains
- Feeding ourselves thirsty: how the food sector is managing global water risks
- Does community-driven aid need a makeover?
- Rising toll on migrants leaves Europe in crisis; 900 may be dead at sea
- Deforestation in the Amazon aggravates Brazil’s energy crisis
- World Health Day 2015: Five food safety tips
- World Health Day 2015: From farm to plate, make food safe
- Overpopulation, overconsumption—in pictures. How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people.
- Weed killer, long cleared, is doubted
- W.H.O report links ingredient in Roundup, the world’s most popular weedkiller, to cancer
- Banana workers’ strike highlights abuses by corporations in Costa Rica
- Haitian leader’s power grows as scandals swirl
- UN has failed Syria: NGOs
- Syria: Four years on, an unimaginable toll
- Alienation and violence: Impact of Syria crisis report 2014
- What refugees really think of aid agencies
- Is Syria conflict a case study for climate change and hunger-related conflict?
- Mandating food insecurity: The global impacts of rising biofuel mandates and targets
- Will sustainable palm oil surge exclude small farmers?
- Where and why food prices lead to social upheaval
- Battle to feed the world pits small farmers against big agriculture. Do small-scale farmers hold the key to fulfilling global goals on hunger and poverty? Or can they only be achieved by large-scale agriculture?
- War punishes Gaza. Half a year after devastating hostilities, life in the region seems worse than ever. Thousands remain displaced, internal violence is increasing – and Hamas is preparing for battle
- Pope addresses right to food in address to 500 experts
- Developing countries lose an estimated $990 billion dollars annually in illicit financial flows
- Official responses to the world food crisis in light of the human right to food
- With pollinator declines, millions at risk of malnutrition
- New report urges Western governments to reconsider reliance on biofuels
- Richest 1 percent will own more than rest combined by 2016, Oxfam report says
- As aid reaches Syrians, U.N. chief says withholding food is a war crime
- South American commodity boom drives deforestation and land conflicts
- The soil: Silent ally against hunger in Latin America
- 2014 was deadliest year for migrants, international group says
- New report shows discrimination against women is major cause of persistent hunger
- Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for US tables
- World Food Program suspends food aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
- 6 graphs explain the world’s top ten emitters
- Bolivian law makes child labor legal for children as young as 10. Change was demanded by child workers in order to establish greater legal protections.
- UN panel issues its starkest warning yet on the dangers of global warming. Failure to reduce emissions could threaten society with food shortages, refugee crises, major flooding and mass extinctions, panel says.
- A vendor in New Dehli sells vegetables from a cart. But where do most of the world’s hungry live? Photo: Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images
- World Food Day: Ten myths about world hunger
- A new UN body to combat global malnutrition?
- Understanding hunger
- Developing countries blast rich-world farm subsidies at Rome talks
- We’ve killed off half the world’s animals since 1970
- Humans of Syria: Objects of pity or attractive prospective employees?
- More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty
- UN says there is unprecented demand for food aid
- Land-reclamation campaign by indigenous Mapuches scorches southern Chile
- New report reveals how poor women and men understand food rights
- Opportunity’s knocks: Tereza Sedgwick is seeing the economy from the bottom up, where the fastest-growing job in America, nursing aide, is also one of the hardest
- Rethink needed on humanitarian funding for national NGOs, now only 0.2 percent of total humanitarian aid
- Egypt’s new strongman, Sisi knows best
- Slavery is still thriving and is more profitable than big oil
- Mubarak gets three years for embezzlement, and his sons get 4
- Billboard drives home extent of corruption as Mexican schools suffer
- Climate change deemed growing security threat by military researchers: Climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water, and rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions at risk
- Pope Francis calls for ‘legitimate redistribution’ of wealth to the poor
- Water and sanitation gains mask growing inequalities
- South stymies North in global trade talks
- India’s battle with the World Trade Organization
- In rural Egypt, democracy withers
- Gaza under fire—A humanitarian disaster
- Maryland governor, Obama aides spar over unaccompanied immigrant children
- Honduran child migrants leave home because of poverty and violence
- El Niño triggers drought, food crisis in Nicaragua
- Honduras: One year of community resistance in Rio Blanco
- The race to adapt to climate change
- Do pollinators contribute to nutritional health?
- Refugees at levels not seen since WWII
- Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram awarded 2014 World Food Prize for critical breakthroughs in wheat
- How equal rights boosts food security
- Panel’s warning on climate risk: Worst is yet to come
- General who led overthrow of Egypt’s first elected government and is now the defacto ruler to run for president of Egypt
- 529 Egyptians sentenced to death over the killing of a police officer
- El Salvador ex-rebel’s presidential victory confirmed
- Egypt’s military expands its power over the economy
- Obama was right: To boost the economy, spread the wealth, two new IMF studies indicate
- Chiquita merger reignites fears of a disappearing banana crop
- Egyptian authorities detain thousands amid crackdown on dissent
- Mexico targets gang that infiltrated the mining industry
- Crop diversity decline threatens food security
- Syria crisis: Thousands waiting for food in Yarmouk (video)
- How much aid is required to end extreme poverty?
- Lawlessness is undoing effort to save Honduran forests
- Cuba’s reward for the dutiful: Gated housing
- Breaking the cycle of youth unemployment and poverty
- Climate-induced migration creates perils, possibilities
- Mexicali has become Mexico’s city of the deported as US dumps more people there
- UN says lag in confronting climate woes will be costly
- World Bank is criticized for Honduran loan to a Honduran palm-oil company engaged in a violent conflict with farm workers over land tenure
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- Growing clamor about inequities of climate crisis
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- Climate change seen posing risk to food supplies
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- Humans almost certainly cause global warming, scientific panel says
- G20: how global tax reform could transform Africa’s fortunes (Opinion)
- Plan at G-20 is to tighten global rules on taxes
- They fear us because we are fearless: Reclaiming indigenous lands and strength in Honduras
- Syria records its millionth child refugee. UNICEF says the global community has failed in its responsibility to the children displaced by the violence in Syria.
- Cairo military firmly hooked to US lifeline
- Ties with Egypt army constrain Washington
- Hundreds die as Egyptian forces attack Islamist protestors
- Without our land we cease to be a people: Defending indigenous territory and resources in Honduras
- We don’t have life without land: Holding ground in Honduras
- Backing Egypt’s generals, Saudi Arabia promises financial support
- In rural Honduras, the northward pull is strong
- Egypt general has country wondering about aims
- Generating global governance to end hunger—a Q&A with the FAO director-general
- In Mexico, rails are risky crossing for a new wave of Central American migrants
- War denying millions of children an education. Almost 50 million children and young people in conflict areas out of school, says report, with Syrian civil war worsening problem
- Sudden improvements suggest a campaign to undermine Morsi
- Brazil unveils plan to hire 10,000 doctors for poor areas
- A coup? Or something else? $1.5 billion in US aid is on the line
- Barring of Bolivan plane infuriates Latin America as Snowden case widens
- Bolivia complains to UN after Evo Morales’ plane ‘kidnapped.’ US refuses to comment on Morales plane but admits contact with other nations over potential Snowden flights.
- Military reasserts its allegiance to its privileges
- Army ousts Egypt’s president; Morsi is taken into military custody
- Butterfly decline signals trouble in environment
- Military says law barring US assistance to human rights violators hurts training mission
- Sweeping protests in Brazil pull in an array of grievances
- Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change
- From inner circle of Iran, a pragmatic victor
- Ecuador legislature approves curbs on news media
- Death toll in Syrian civil war near 93,000, UN says
- Ten ways to save a million lives
- Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2012
- 2 of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount
- Syria appeal is biggest in UN history
- Egypt convicts 43 NGO workers, including 16 Americans, on charges of using foreign funds to foment unrest
- UN urged to adopt 2030 goal of ending extreme poverty
- children are at risk of underperforming at school because of chronic malnutrition, Save the Children says
- Forty organizations that are shaking up the food system
- Guatemalan court overturns genocide conviction of ex-dictator
- Humanitarian intervention in violence-hit slums—from whether to how
- The price of fear: In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure—fear
- Why aid workers are targets
- Helping aid workers build meaningful careers
- Proposal for changes in food aid sets off infighting in Congress
- Bolivia’s president expels US aid agency
- Humanitarian workers unprepared for decades of conflict, UNHCR warns
- Kill the Food for Peace program? What a horrible idea from our own government! (opinion)
- Boom times in Paraguay leave many behind
- A unified approach to climate change and hunger
- A food fight over Food for Peace
- Bolivan ranchers try to drive Tsimané indians off their land
- Afghanistan – the world’s most dangerous place for aid workers
- Obama proposes end to monetized food aid
- We must change global tax system to insure that poor countries get a fair share—OECD. OECD official says rich countries should demand transparency from multinationals and stop cash passing through tax havens.
- administration seeks to overhaul international food aid
- The Code of Conduct on the Right to Adequate Food: A Tool for Civil Society
- Aid groups push Obama administration to shift the way US helps feed starving people abroad
- The geography of government benefits (interactive map showing benefits by country throughout the US)
- Fair Trade having enforcement difficulties in growing $6 billion market
- UN climate talks’ real-world outcome will be determined in Asia
- In Durban, Kyoto treaty seems set to meet its end
- Tiny tax on financial trades gains advocates
- Climate deal pushed by poorer nations
- EU takes hardline stance at UN climate talks. Tough stand causes consternation among large developing countries, and discord threatens the future of the Kyoto protocol.
- calls for responsible deal in Durban climate change conference
- UN climate talks get underway in South Africa. Kyoto protocol may be extended in weakened form; patchwork measures may provide some progress.
- Can the oceans continue to feed us?
- Brazil’s long shadow vexes some neighbors
- Population growth taxing planet’s resources; expanding demands are depleting seas, fresh water and forests
- Bolivia scraps Amazon road project protested by indigenous people
- Aid policy: The rise of the new donors
- Developing countries out in the cold at the World Trade Organization
- Congress passes trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
- Feeding nine billion people in a sustainable way will be one of the greatest challenges our civilization has ever faced, new report says
- Mexican drug cartels reach into tiny Belize
- New edition of FAO publication fails to estimate number of hungry people
- Daughter of ‘dirty war,’ raised by man who killed her parents
- With the death of forests, a loss of key climate protectors
- Austerity measures risk irreversible impact on children, Unicef warns. UN children’s fund challenges pledges by IMF and World Bank to safeguard poor people from the worst of the global downturn
- Corn and wheat prices are set to go up, FAO says
- Scientists call for an end to deep-sea fishing; fish stocks dangerously depleted
- Indigenous Bolivians march against Amazon road through their homeland, a pristine forest reserve
- Humanitarian aid in 2010 was at its highest-ever level—US$16.7 billion—but so were aid costs, says aid watchdog Development Initiatives
- Pope says selfish economic models at root of world hunger
- G20 summit to address the world food crisis barely addresses key issues including biofuels, safety nets and trade restrictions
- Amid criticism, UN food agency to elect new chief
- UNHCR 2011 refugee statistics: full data
- UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high
- Leftist former army officer Ollanta Humala elected president of Peru; wants to strengthen US ties
- Brazil launches plan to end extreme poverty in three years; plan would raise incomes of 16 million people
- Almost 17 million acres of land in Colombia were stolen by armed groups involved in the country’s civil conflict—government plans to return land to rightful owners in ‘gigantic’ task
- Protestors take over Peruvian city, say new silver mining operation will pollute Lake Titicaca
- Mubarak to face conspiracy charges in protest shootings
- After Egypt’s revolution, malaise spreads: ‘Old days were better’
- Promise of Arab uprisings is threatened by religious, ethnic and clan divisions
- Climate-change aid to developing world difficult to track, report says
- Wikileak cables show race to obtain Arctic resources as ice retreats
- Fast-growing Brazil tries to lift its poorest
- Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation rises sharply
- Administration planning $1 billion debt relief for Egypt
- More deaths on Syria’s ‘day of defiance’
- Commodity prices fall sharply as investors sell
- Food prices driven up by global warming, study shows. Scientists warn that farming practices must be adapted to a warmer world and rises in global population.
- businessman becomes magnet for anger and dissent
- Syria’s crackdown on protesters becomes dramatically more brutal. Tanks and troops enter towns and villages for the first time as scores of people are reportedly killed across Syria.
- The nutrition community mourns the death of Michael Latham
- Michael Latham, nutritionist who advocated breast-feeding, dies at 82
- Corn prices double since April 2010 due in part to increased biofuel production resulting from higher oil prices; recent food price increases drive 44 million people into hunger, World Bank estimates
- Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans
- Colombia agrees to protect unions
- Bankok climate talks stall
- Rush to use crops as fuel raises food prices and hunger fears
- In Syria, many uneasy about where a power struggle might lead. The majority Sunni Muslims want power while the minority Alawite sect is determined to keep it—civil war might erupt as a result
- US-Colombia trade pact faces hurdles–key Democratic legislator says Colombia needs significant improvement in labor rights and worker protection
- Shady dealings helped Qaddafi build fortune and regime–Colonel Qaddafi’s family and his government have accumulated billions of dollars with the help of international corporations
- United States finds $29 billion of Libyan assets in one bank—freezes them
- Thousands march to protest Syria killings
- Muslim Brotherhood is rising force in new Egypt
- Western forces attack Libya, establish no-fly zone; Arab League objects to severity of attack
- Egypt approves constitutional changes by overwhelming vote
- Obama demands pullback of Libyan troops; Tripoli declares ceasefire
- Battle for control rages in Libya—Gaddafi forces inch towards opposition stronghold of Benghazi while wrangle over UN decision on no-fly zone crawls
- Libyan forces rout rebels as West’s effort for no-flight zone stalls
- Surge in drug violence puts prosperity at risk in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city
- Egyptians desperate for democracy, but wary of US assistance in part because most past US aid has gone to the military and been interpreted by Egyptians as support for a regime that oppressed them
- Headquarters of Egypt’s widely feared security agency overrun in Cairo
- Gaddafi adresses loyal crowd in Tripoli; many protesters shot
- Swiss freeze Qaddafi assets: How dictators stash their cash 101
- Middle East protests: A country-by-country look
- Feeding the world: Will there be enough food as world population grows to nine billion?
- Bengazi, Libya: Citizens protest 42 year rule of Gaddafi—security forces respond, killing 200
- Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood promotes moderate path, but is mistrusted by the West and some in Egypt
- Egypt’s army helped oust President Mubarak
- Swiss locate funds linked to Mubarak
- As food prices soar, most developed countries ignore 2009 promise to fund food security initiative
- Women stand for equality in Tahir Square
- Egypt’s missing stir doubts on military’s vows for change
- Egyptians say military discourages an open economy—military runs many businesses, pays no taxes, employs conscripted labor, buys public land on favorable terms and discloses nothing to Parliament or the public
- Food prices pushing millions into poverty
- Unrest spreads in Middle East to Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Libya, and Iraq
- Bahrein citizens return to protest in Pearl Square after security forces stop attacking
- Egypt army sets six-month blueprint, but future role is unclear
- Mubarak family riches attract new focus
- MUBARAK STEPS DOWN Egypt’s military officially takes control as crowds in Cairo erupt in jubilation
- see Haiti’s growing momentum towards democracy: The possible return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a pushback against the electoral fix give hope (opinion)
- Egypt’s ire turns to confidant of Mubarak’s son
- The US government and other foreign powers praise election decision
- Haiti panel announces candidates for runoff presidential election–government candidate dropped after charges of vote fraud, foreign government pressure
- Mubarak says he won’t run for President again
- NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness—complaints concern poor coordination, high turnover and lack of transparency
- Largest crowds yet demand change in Egypt
- Rich, poor, and a rift exposed by unrest
- Army lets protests proceed
- Mubarak orders crackdown, with revolt sweeping Egypt
- Germany suspends payment to AIDS fund over corruption claims
- Poverty’s new reality; there is a lot less of it in the world
- Violent clashes mark protests against Mubarak’s rule
- Report: Urgent action needed to avert global hunger
- Haiti charges ex-leader Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier’, recently returned to Haiti, with corruption and embezzlement
- Tunisia leader Ben Ali flees and prime minister takes power
- Military backs new leaders in Tunisia
- Behind Tunisia unrest, rage over wealth of ruling family
- Freedom House releases report showing decline in democracy worldwide
- Tunisia’s and Ben Ali’s corruptions: the Wikileaks revelations
- The ‘food bubble’ is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won’t save us
- Sudan needs to have greater transparency over its oil revenues to help preserve peace in the region, according to a new report
- The coming hunger: Record food prices put world ‘in danger’, says UN
- No police in Mexico town after last officer kidnapped
- Ernesto Sabato, 99: Writer led investigation of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
- How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis (opinion)
- Syrian security forces kill dozens of protesters
- Fighting nears Tripoli, where Quaddafi keeps grip on power
- Somalis ‘at war’ with Ethiopia
- Salvador Archbishop assassinated by sniper while officiating at Mass
hunger
- U.S White House Conference – $8 Billion toward a National Strategy for Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
- USDA to Provide $2b in Food Aid to Combat Growing Food Insecurity Across US
- Furniture Maker Creates Wooden Bowls for Donations to Help Hunger Causes
- People Still Die from Hunger Whether We Call it a Famine
Middle East
- KT For Good: This Ramadan, let’s work towards food waste reduction
- Yemen Food Security Outlook February to September 2019
- UNICEF Official Calls Yemen A Living Hell For Children
- Million fruit trees planted in Oman in bid to boost food security
- Chronic Hunger Stalks Millions in War-Torn Yemen
- World Food Day 2018 celebrated in Iraq under the theme “Our Actions Are Our Future, Ending World Hunger by 2030 is Possible”
- Isolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine
- Yemen Food Security Outlook: Weakening of the national currency further impacts food and fuel prices
- Stronger regional ties could ensure food security, says minister
- Mothers Fight for Children’s Lives, Hunger in Yemen
- Yemen facing largest famine the world has seen for decades, warns UN aid chief
Nutrition
On Resilience
- Assistance to Press Freedom can Fight Famine
- The Impact of Unequal Wealth Distribution on Poverty Worldwide
Opinions
- Concern International CEO Appeals for Famine Response
- America is suffering its worst hunger crisis in decades. Here’s how to fix the problem.
- Pandemic Exposes Long-Standing Problems in the Global Food System
- COVID-19; Global Cooperation in the Fight is a Must
- Food supply chains do not care if people go hungry
- ‘Without Empathy, Nothing Works.’ Chef José Andrés Wants to Feed the World Through the Pandemic
- José Andrés: We Have a Food Crisis Unfolding Out of Sight
- Aid groups need a major shake-up to meet the challenges of a fractured world
- In modern Britain, hunger has become normal. That is an outrage
- The Impact of Global Climate Change on World Hunger
- Sustainable Development Depends on Better Nutrition for All Nations
- Solving Dietary Issues Through Public Private Partnerships: An Example from the Field
- Solving Hunger?
- 12 Things We Can Agree On about Global Poverty
- Overcoming the ‘Double Burden’ of Malnutrition
- Poverty to Early Marriages and Early Marriages to Poverty: The Endless Chain in Rural Communities in Cameroon
- Debates About U.S. Food Assistance 2018
- A Perspective from Cameroon: Hunger, Poverty, and Terrorism in the North
- What We Know About Youth – and What We Don’t
- Hungry on Campus
- Be Part of the Solution to Senior Hunger and Loneliness
- Hidden Hunger: The Food Crisis of the United States
- Why 2017 May Be the Best Year Ever
- Pope Francis’ vision of an inclusive global economy
- Twenty years of editing Hunger Notes
- December Hunger Notes: Food insecurity and conflict, shifting the focus from feeding people to nourishing them, and more
- The elimination of violence against women
- The genocidal logic of South Sudan’s “gun class”
- November Hunger Notes: It’s time for U.S. to lead in combating global malnutrition, avocados imperil Monarch butterflies, and more
- It’s time for the U.S. to lead on combating global malnutrition
- Poverty in unexpected places
- October Hunger Notes: the conflict between corporate agriculture and campesinos, Syrian families and war, and more
- Agroecology “Lite:” Cooptation and resistance in the global North
- Building a ‘good’ anthropocene from the bottom up
- Why did the Obamas fail to take on corporate agriculture?
- My plan for helping America’s poor
- Letter: Is there a food shortage in the world? And other questions.
- Health coverage, income, and poverty all improved decisively in 2015
- In a fight between environmentalists and farmers, the bees lose. And that stings.
- August Hunger Notes: Candidates say little about poverty and hunger, Growing organic agriculture, Can farmers accept the prairie? and more
- After 1996 welfare law, a weaker safety net and more children in deep poverty
- Towards a transformed and more resilient agriculture sector in Africa
- Congress passed the Global Food Security Act. Here’s why that’s historic.
- Cocoa and deforestation, it’s time to shift the paradigm
- The fight isn’t over for farm worker overtime
- The incredible edible “expired” food
- Is the Grand Bargain a big deal?
- Is world hunger a national security issue?
- The well-fed dead: Why aid is still missing the point
- Pope Francis: Overturning the concept of a ‘just war’
- Time to think bigger about the refugee crisis
- Focusing on the future of food: what’s next for global agricultural research
- What the Panama Papers mean for global development
- Vatican to host first-ever conference to reevaluate just war theory, justifications for violence
- Water scarcity, urbanization, and climate change are combined threats to food supplies in the developing world
- Brazil’s Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) program: Accelerating progress for urban and rural nutrition
- The racism at the heart of Flint’s crisis
- Connecting the dots: Human rights and poverty
- Soil: the sustainable alternative to oil income in Africa
- These cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives. What happened?
- Letting (some of) India’s women own land
- The farm bill drove me insane.America’s top nutrition thinker tried to unpack the most important food law. It was a mistake
- Feeding big cities in growing, fragile, and conflict-ridden states
- Urbanization, food security and youth employment
- Kenyans reaquire an old taste: eating healthier
- Beyond deportation: Fixing a broken immigration system
- The surprising truth about the food movement
- Jeb Bush, please talk to Bob Dole about food stamps
- GOP policy forum: Its high notes and low notes
- Don’t buy the spin: The WTO talks in Nairobi ended badly and India will pay a price
- Defending the right to food at the World Trade Organization
- Defending the right to food at the World Trade Organization
- Don’t buy the spin: The WTO talks in Nairobi ended badly and India will pay a price
- Will Washington greenlight another coup in Haiti? After December’s elections, Haiti could have yet another U.S.-backed president with a weak democratic mandate.
- Will Washington greenlight another coup in Haiti? After December’s elections, Haiti could have yet another U.S.-backed president with a weak democratic mandate.
- Evidence on corruption and humanitarian aid
- Progress against undernutrition, but uneven
- Dangers of the Gates Foundation: Displacing seeds and farmers
- Electing to ignore the poorest of the poor
- GM crops and the developing world: Opposing sides miss the bigger picture
- Forty years on from independence, Angola still lacks freedom. As the country marks its anniversary, the authoritarian and entrenched MPLA regime rules with the excesses of a colonial power.
- The socio-political and governance dimensions of hunger: Exploring Ethiopia’s crisis
- Undocumented youth are here through no fault of their own. But it’s not their parents’ fault, either. Using the phrase “no fault of their own” in discussing undocumented young people does not encourage us to look at the roots of the poverty and violence their families experience.
- Women’s progress outdid China’s one-child policy
- A closer look at advancing world food security. In agriculture, our free trade and commodity export agendas conflict with our development agenda, and the result is food insecurity. Here is the case for a change in focus.
- “Miracle-makers” IMF, World Bank found wearing no clothes at Lima Annual Meetings
- The myth of welfare’s corrupting influence on the poor
- A tale of two food prizes
- Africa and the WTO: the perils of weakening the development agenda
- Global goals must fight the poor nutrition that kills 3 million children every year. The sustainable development goals need to reflect the complex causes of malnutrition in order to tackle one of the world’s foremost health challenges.
- Why Pope Francis’s call to care for the poor is so contagious
- Education gap between rich and poor is growing wider
- In Myanmar, a soft coup ahead of an election
- Here’s why industrial food is deceivingly cheap
- Destruction of US credibility at WTO: It is hypocritical of the US to give price support to its farmers while denying it to the world’s poorest farmers
- Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice
- The end of polio in Africa?
- The GM labeling law to end all labeling laws
- The U.S. has 35,000 museums. Why is only one about slavery?
- The mystery of ISIS
- Fit for whose purpose? Private funding and corporate influence in the United Nations
- Don’t let food be the problem: Producing too much food is what starves the planet
- Did the U.N. financing for development conference deliver?
- Ruthless power and deleterious politics: From DDT to Roundup
- Address to the Second World Meeting of the Popular Movements
- Regime change for humanitarian aid: How to make relief more accountable
- Big Corn vs. Big Sugar could have a sweet outcome for taxpayers
- So much for trickle down: only bold reforms will tackle inequality. Even the IMF recognises the vicious circle in which inequality breeds instability, which causes recession and spending cuts that make inequality worse.
- Why developing countries should stop discriminating against agriculture: A short history of agricultural trade policies over the past 40 years
- Agriculture will drive Africa’s rise to economic power
- Fear of almonds
- Increased agricultural research investment needed to meet future food demand
- Wasting the savanna
- Let’s make food issues real
- Paul Ryan loves talking about poverty, but he keeps getting the basic facts wrong
- The Global Food Security Act of 2015: What it is and why it matters
- What Kansas gets wrong when it tries to control what poor people can do with welfare
- Americans are spending $153 billion a year to subsidize McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s low wage workers
- Unraveling the enigma of South Asian malnutrition
- Monsanto admits an entire department exists to “discredit” scientists
- Global Food Security Act a critical step forward in ending hunger
- Where do the world’s hungriest people live? Not where you think
- We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
- Peasant sovereignty?
- We’re throwing away tons of fruits and veggies for not being pretty enough
- New project announced: Global food security by the numbers
- Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says his country is in danger of collapse. “If this country fails, the whole region will slide into a cycle of anarchy that will represent a grave danger to all countries in this region, including Israel, and would extend to Europe.”
- Is gender inequality the main roadblock to achieving nutrition targets?
- Let’s grant women land rights and power our future
- From famine to feast in 40 years: Policy matters
- Food security: If the dreamers lose, we face a nightmare Less food for more people on a hotter, drier Earth. How can we work to avoid this future?
- What to do about “grand corruption? An estimated $17.6 trillion in murky money is held in tax havens, unidentified bank accounts or shell companies around the world — some of it acquired illegally through corruption, crime or tax evasion.
- Hidden hunger: America’s growing malnutrition epidemic
- After canceling its presidential election, Haiti heads toward chaos
- The fight for civil rights, long after Martin Luther King
- How expensive it is to be poor
- Let’s address the State of Food
- Republican candidates grapple with a touchy topic: poverty
- Ethiopia silences its critics with a deadly crackdown on dissent
- ‘Returning citizens’ are still one of D.C.’s most marginalized and motivated groups
- What happened to the biggest land grab in Africa? Searching for ProSavana in Mozambique
- US-Mexico sugar deal means higher prices for consumers
- World Food Program’s struggle to feed millions
- On the national Day of Maize in Mexico, protecting the sacred plant
- Think we can’t end global malnutrition by 2035? Think again
- Don’t ask how to feed the 9 billion
- How a national food policy could save millions of American lives. The food system and the diet it’s created have caused incalculable damage to the health of our people and our land, water and air.
- The two words that scare the World Bank: human rights
- How to eat for the climate
- Who’s serious about global food security?
- Cuba’s impressive role on Ebola
- Addressing malnutriton Reps.
- Census data show the economy strengthened in 2013, but too slowly to improve the living standards of many middle- and low-income Americans
- CAR: A forgotten crisis at the heart of Africa: Though it scarcely makes headlines, the Central African Republic’s vicious civil war has created a sickening humanitarian crisis
- Why Asia is probably poorer than we think: Asia’s ‘success’ in reducing poverty uses a flawed system for measuring income and ignores food insecurity
- The human toll of offshoring
- Africans’ land rights at risk as new agricultural trend sweeps continent
- Saving our birds
- Will the WTO fast-track trade at the expense of food security? India and other G-33 countries are rightfully demanding that food security is addressed at the ongoing WTO meeting.
- Nutrition and health: The opportunity cost of opportunities lost
- Food justice is about more than food security and nutrition
- We need an international court to stamp out corruption: The creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court would hold leaders accountable
- House child tax credit leaves behind millions of low-income working families
- The passing of Martin Lueders, conflict photographer
- US should have tried nation-building in Central America, not Iraq and Afghanistan
- Our bees, ourselves: Bees and colony collapse
- Global food security: Why it affects us all
- Inequality is not inevitable
- Class war: Thailand’s military coup. Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda.
- Food’s big-picture guy
- The Case for Reparations. Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
- South Sudan has failed to justify its existence: Thus far, South Sudan has failed to distinguish itself in anything but human rights violations, refugees, and hunger
- Always hungry? Here’s why
- What is Boko Haram and whence did it arise?
- What we’re reading now
- Guatemala: Suppressing dissent at home and abroad. Human rights defenders in Guatemala are facing the worst environment since the civil war.
- North Korea’s crimes against humanity demand action
- A roadmap for survival: The latest UN report on addressing climate change reflects a strong Western bias, but it’s the most comprehensive tool we’ve got
- The truth about the pay gap
- Saving South Sudan: A bitter schism between two men threatens millions of people
- Funding for 10,000 childen lost in 2 days as a result of World Vision’s decision to allow hiring of married gay people
- Development aid: Enemy of emancipation
- A precarious victory in El Salvador: Washington is threatening to withhold development aid unless El Salvador adopts economic policies that Salvadorans just voted against
- Harkening back to dark days in Haiti: The president of Haiti—a country with no external threats, a history of military repression, and an abundance of more pressing problems—is rebuilding the once-banished Haitian military
- Meat makes the planet thirsty
- Expand national paid family leave
- Some progress on eating and health
- North Korea’s atrocities
- The dust bowl returns to California’s Central Valley
- The case for a higher minimum wage
- Most African leaders not making promised investments in agriculture: 10 years after committing to increase government spending on food production, only seven African countries have consistently met that pledge
- Abracadabra, you’re a part-timer–How corporate America used the great recession to turn good jobs into bad ones
- Nutrition title of farm bill agreement drops Draconian cuts and represents reasonable compromise
- 1; 5,000; 500,000
- The earned income tax credit: One anti-poverty initiative both sides can agree on
- The case for a stronger minimum wage
- Church World Service applauds passage of food aid funding and reforms
- Seeking ways to help the poor and childless
- It is expensive to be poor. Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.
- A girl’s escape
- 2013’s top humanitarian issues and books
- Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 would lift wages for millions and provide a modest economic boost
- In the war on poverty, a dogged adversary
- Syria falls into an abyss. The US stands by as a dictator starves his people.
- US opposition to ambitious Indian program a ‘direct attack on the right to food’
- In Peru, a fight over land rights
- Charity in truth
- Unearthed: Where supporters and opponents agree on GMOs
- South Korean small farmers are leading the way when it comes to food sovereignty and community agriculture
- Labor rights for all: The fight against modern-day slavery. The domestic workers’ rights movement offers powerful lessons for the broader fight against forced labor, trafficking, and servitude.
- In defense of food stamps. A successful poverty program is being unfairly criticized. Here are the facts.
- Budget grief for the poor and jobless
- A war on the poor
- You won’t love these McSubsidies. Taxpayers will shell out $1.2 billion this year to support workers subjected to McDonald’s miserly wages and benefits.
- GMO Wars: The global battlefield. The case against GMOs has strengthened steadily over the last few years, even as the industry has expanded all over the world.
- NGOs must give up power
- Berta Cáceres is still alive: In the face of escalating repression, Honduran indigenous groups are standing against transnational plunder
- Genetically modified foods: What is and isn’t true
- Too high a price for courage: The Honduran government should stop repressing indigenous leaders like Berta Cáceres
- The end of poverty, soon
- Growth or safety net? Eradicating extreme poverty is no longer a pipe dream. But first governments must agree on their approach
- How to bring farmers markets to the urban poor
- America’s sinking middle class
- The mismeasure of poverty
- A new bracero program wiil hurt farmworkers
- Mindlessly gutting food stamps
- Dishonor among African election thieves
- Love for labor lost
- The servitude of immigrant guestworkers
- Let’s drop “feed the world”—a plea to move beyond an unhelpful phrase
- Golden rice: Lifesaver?
- A huge cheap-food scheme to influence voters will not end malnutrition in India
- The government as a low-wage employer
- Bangladesh takes aim at Grameen Bank
- India: A nation shaped by its poorest citizens
- Kenyans mobilise against taxing the poor
- US double-talking human rights in Ethiopia, again!
- Governance in Africa: Challeges for the next 50 years
- NSA surveillance may be legal—but it’s unconstitutional
- The 300 billionth burger
- Our coming food crisis
- Hired gun fight: Obama’s aid chief takes on the development-industrial complex
- Hunger Games, USA
- When states monitored their citizens we used to call them authoritarian. Now we think this is what keeps us safe
- Snowden: a whistleblower, not a spy
- The true deservers of a food prize
- Black America shouldn’t give Obama a pass
- The global plight of disabled children
- The ugly and destructive war on food stamps
- Is it crazy to think we can eradicate poverty?
- A is for avoidance of taxes
- Breeding the nutrition out of our food
- The end of the perpetual war
- What guilt does the US bear in Guatemala?—four views
- How social networks drive black unemployment
- Lives destroyed, dreams crushed, and cheap clothes
- Kill the Food for Peace program? What a horrible idea from our own government!
- The jobless trap
- US food aid: Take the local food movement global
- The kids are (not) all right—UNICEF report ranks US child welfare 26th of 29 rich countries
- Helping the world’s poorest children requires radical reform
- A compelling reform of United States food aid
- Ending world hunger is possible – so why hasn’t it been done? Some 850 million people go to bed hungry. If the right decisions are made now, we can feed the world and address inequality
- Chavez: Washington nemesis, Latin American hero
- Chavez: Lest we forget
- The feminization of farming
- Climate change and food prices: the scary hidden stressors
- Landgrabbing for biofuels must stop
- 600 homeless children in DC, and no one seems to care
- The persistence of racial resentment
- How effective is the safety net?
- The global farmland rush
- Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action
- The rise of the permanent temp economy–low wage and insecure
- Do global summits help to tackle poverty?
- Fixing our food problem
- Africa: the next twenty years
- Congo: The world’s worst war
- HSBC—Too big to indict? A dark day for the rule of law
- Hunger in plain sight
- Why fighting corruption in Africa fails
- Political racism in the age of Obama
- Obama must rewrite his foreign policy legacy
- George McGovern: A friend to the hungry
- How blaming the West hides war on women
- The untouchables: both presidential candidates neglect poor people in the their debate
- Twitter and the onslaught of social media in food and nutrition (my life in 140 characters or less!)
- Vitamin A wars: the downsides of donor-driven aid
- Balancing food, weather and population
- Poor visibility:The mainstream media needs to step up its reporting on poverty as a campaign issue
- World hunger: the problem left behind
- We won the War on Poverty, then lost the peace. If America could eliminate most serious poverty in the United States in the 1960s, surely we could do the same today.
- Pat Kutzner And Helping People in the United States Understand People Who Are Poor and Hungry
- WHES Thanks Annemarie and Wayne Mewhorter for Gift
- World Hunger Education Service Welcomes New Board Member David Langhaug and Thanks Departing Board Members Janna Marchione and Jennifer Munro for Their Service
- A Global Context for Hospitality
- A Crisis of Legitimacy and Effectiveness Requires Making International Institutions More Democratic
- Treasury Secretary O’Neill is Half Right: Make Grants Not Loans to the Poorest Countries (But First Increase Development Assistance)
- If we want food to remain cheap we need to stop putting it in our cars
- Five stars for the hunger summit
- Fix the minimum wage—income for a minimum-wage breadwinner for a family of four is $7,000 below the federal poverty line
- The hunger wars in our future: heat, drought, rising food costs and global unrest
- How to feed 9 billion people
- Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting
- Corn for food, not fuel
- Poverty in America: Why can’t we end it?
- Statement on divisive Foreign Policy piece
- Please, don’t send food: A new study suggests that food aid could actually prolong conflict rather than resolve it
- Forced labor on American shores
- Summertime hunger spike: There simply aren’t enough programs available to serve all the children who need them
- As the world’s worst outbreak of cholera continues to ravage Haiti, international donors have averted their gaze
- 20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms
- The hard facts behind youth crime (and what you can do about it)
- The 2012 Food Assistance Convention–is a promise still a promise?
- Analysis of 2012 G8 Summit on Food Security: A step forward, a step back, and a very big question
- Let’s resist herbicide-resistant crops
- Plutocracy, paralysis, perplexity
- Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem
- Republicans’ budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor
- To make a lot of money, be a crony in crony capitalism
- Better public schools require a stronger safety net. School segregation by class is the norm in the United States
- The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America
- Have we really achieved goal one of the Millennium Development Goals?
- Timing of Stop Kony campaign suspicious
- Starving Iran won’t free it
- Bill Gates’ suppport of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
- Middle-class welfare state is invisible by design
- Money and morals
- Take a step to help hungry children
- 1,000 days to change the future
- The army and the economy in Egypt
- The school lunch barometer–the number of children eligible for free/low cost meals has risen 17 percent due to hard times for their parents
- Angola: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
- It is official: Busan heralds the dismantling of the aid industry
- Class matters. Why won’t we admit it?
- Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa
- Sierra Leone up for grabs
- Bold action needed to put people first
- How can you talk seriously about US government deficit reduction when Bush-era temporary tax cuts cannot be allowed to expire and the nation is fighting two long-lasting and very costly wars? (opinion)
- Why does the Obama administration think foreclosures are good?
- The wars that America forgot about
- Shadowy players in a new class war, started by the rich and powerful
- The costs of rising income inequality
- US wants Europeans to give up IMF board seats, but does not want to give up its own veto rights
- How Chavez lost the popular vote and won by a landslide
- The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion ($3,000 billion) and more
- Its time to end the excessive subsidies ($1.78 a gallon) for corn ethanol
- Obama’s overdue AIDS bill
- Violence in South Africa against immigrants is caused by very poor South Africans facing great competition from very poor immigrants, not xenophobia
- Giant oil spills have turned the Amazon in Ecuador into a disaster zone long before the Gulf
- Has the US rice export policy condemned Haiti to poverty?
- The worst of the pain of the economic crisis is felt by low income households–the lowest income group had unemployment of 30 percent while the highest income group had unemployment of 3 percent–yet there is a willful refusal by politicians and the media to focus on those who are suffering the most
- Zambia: Riches to rags
- Equatorial Guinea: Its per capita income is equal to Italy, while two-thirds of its population live in extreme poverty and its infant and child mortality rate is among the world’s highest. Why?
- The other plot to destroy America: Wall Street has (arguably) caused more devastation than Al Qaeda, yet what are we doing to prevent a recurrence of Wall Street-induced financial collapse on our economy and our lives?
- How has the world allowed hunger to grow, rather than reducing hunger by half, the world’s solemn international commitment in 1996?
- The art of doing nothing: agricultural policy making in Cuba
- Rethinking food production for a world of eight billion
- Isaias Afewerki and Eritrea: a nation’s tragedy
- The global financial crisis and its effect on poor people in the United States (shunted aside in times of prosperity and even more in recession)
- What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses?–a Republican Senator! (voting on the stimulus package)
- Unemployed people, without jobs, can’t get help from welfare programs either! State-run welfare programs have been declining in spite of big spikes in unemployment.
- Stumbling on their sense of entitlement–the business (and government) elite just doesn’t recognize that their exorbitant income levels are based not on real profits but on a tissue of lies
- A food agenda for Obama: now is the time to reinvent America’s farm and food policies
- The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere–it’s time to stop the mission creep
- Is the US ‘post-racial’? Have we actually moved beyond race?
- Obama’s not black, he is half black and half white
- The pitfalls of Africa’s aid addiction
- Obama needs a Secretary of Food, not a Secretary of Agriculture
- Stopping a global meltdown
- The human right to food and globalization
- Farmer in chief (a letter to the President-elect about food policy)
- The Administration and Congress mobilize to bail out giant financial institutions, but no rescue for the hungry
- An even poorer world
- As Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak continues to hound an advocate for democracy, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the administration is nearly silent
- Egypt’s unchecked repression
- Water everywhere, and not a drop to grow
- Egyptian judge sentences exiled dissident to prison for writings in ‘foreign press’
- Limited availability of fresh water is often overlooked as a cause of food scarcity and environmental decline, according to Colin Chartres. Governments should be ramping up efforts to make sure we have enough to grow crops as well as enough to drink, he argues.
- Food stamp inflation adjustment lags, resulting in inadequate benefits
- The G8 in Hokkaido: an exercise in escapism by John Samuel, ActionAid
- After 75 years, the working poor still struggle for a fair wage
- “Local” purchasing of food aid? It may be good to think twice about this idea.
- Both Rumsfeld and the current Defense Secretary Gates share the long war fallacy. Iraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not the world.
- Sweetheart deal: the latest farm bill outrage is a plan to prop up sugar producers
- Bush’s out-of-tune AIDS plan
- What’s your consumption factor?
- Remembering Martin McLaughlin
- Obituary: Martin McLaughlin, 89; advocate for poor and hungry
- Sorry, your job’s been outsourced! — a look at globalization and its effects in Wisconsin
- A terrible shortage of food for the poor grips the country. Where is the political will to do the right thing for the hungry?
- Ending hunger isn’t what it used to be–neither is fear
- Africa’s sudden splash of good news
- Burma–growing darker daily
- The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities–a powerhouse for the poor
- Trade can play a role in agricultural development
- What should a billionaire give to save human lives–and what should you?
- Reflections on Pinochet’s death
- Inter-American Development Bank debt cancellation for Haiti–just another promise?
- DR Congo – Is it a miracle?
- The world needs its small farmers
- Still the rich world’s viceroy. If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?
- The Debacle of Doha
- 4 Ways To Spend $60 Billion Wisely
- The Handouts That Feed Poverty
- Bono’s Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
- Chad: Oil and Development.
- Wanted: A Famine Fund
- Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane Addresses Hunger No More: An Interfaith Convocation, Washington National Cathedral
- How Many Children are Hungry in the United States? A Reader Asks
- United States Children Left Behind
- We Need Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
- Fifty Years of International Food Aid – Time To Change?
- World Refugee Day June 20: A Time to Celebrate?
- Darfur: Genocide in Africa Again–Ten Years After Rwanda
- Thoughts on Attending the 31st Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition
- Hunger Notes Urges Its Readers to Join RESULTS
- New Year’s Resolutions–For Our Readers!–On Helping Hungry People
- USAID’s Development Education Program Is Not True Education About Development
- Hunger Notes Thanks Its Readers, Counts Its Blessings, and Sets Out Goals For 2002
Refugees
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- Food Insecurity on U.S. College Campuses
- Why You Should Create A Reverse Advent Calendar This Year (And How To Do It)
- Why does America have so many hungry kids?
- VIDEO: Learn about the forces changing our food system
U.S. Hunger Pictures
- Hunger in America; A Photographic Journey through America
- Life on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation
- The dizzying grandeur of corporate agriculture
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- Interview with Dominic MacSorley, Former CEO of Concern Worldwide
- Interview with Dr. T. Colin Campbell
- WORLD FOOD DAY
- Preventing Famine – Interview with WFP Deputy Chief, Valerie Guarnieri
- Blast puts Lebanon at Risk for Widespread Food Crisis
- José Andrés Helps the Nats Turn D.C.’s Baseball Stadium Into a Community Kitchen
- Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits
- This App Delivers Leftover Food To The Hungry, Instead Of To The Trash
- Want to save the world from hunger? Start by not wasting food, shoppers told
- Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
- Meals on Wheels Client Asks Congress to #SaveLunch For Millions of At-Risk Seniors
- Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere
United States
- Celebrating the Legacy of Art Simon (1930-2023)
- Task Force Informs White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
- From 2005 to 2019, working-age veterans more likely to live in food-insecure households than similar nonveterans
- Mississippi Food Network receives $100K to address hunger in rural areas
- If Congress can’t work together to address child hunger we’re doomed
- Nutrition Security: The Next Battleground in the War on Hunger
- For the newly food insecure, help that preserves dignity
- Tips to Reduce Food Waste
- New Task Force Aims to End Food Insecurity in Arlington, Virginia
- Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements Are Taking Back Ancestral Land
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative launches new program: GROW A LITTLE EXTRA
- Food insecurity among University of Arizona students doubled during the pandemic
- This company is solving America’s food issues one backyard at a time
- Student-Run Free Grocery Store Helps Feed Town’s Hungry
- Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger
- This man is on a mission to get his neighborhood healthy food options through urban farming
- A Growing Number of Americans Are Going Hungry
- Judge blocks Trump plan to cut food stamps for 700,000 adults
- Hunger Crisis: 1 in 5 Americans Turning to Food Banks
- Virginia Governor Allocates Funding For Food Banks To Address Food Needs
- D.C. Food Banks and Nonprofits Face Dueling Crises During the Holidays
- Do something. Do something!
- ‘Fulfilling a purpose:’ DC man starts 24/7 pop-up food pantry in Brookland neighborhood
- SNAP benefit increase takes effect
- Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers
- Food insecurity, demand on Syracuse University pantries rise due to pandemic’s financial tolls
- Building a Black Food Sovereignty Movement in Baltimore
- Nearly 30 million Americans told the Census Bureau they didn’t have enough to eat last week
- ‘It’s insane’: Millions of kids could lose access to free meals if this program expires
- City Compost Programs Boost Food Security and Social Justice
- SF soda tax funds find new purpose: fighting hunger during COVID-19 pandemic
- US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high
- UMD Community Garden Becomes Necessity During Pandemic
- The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America
- New York State Farmers donate 34,000+ pounds of milk, beef and produce to NYC families in need
- Pandemic EBT Will Allow More Than 319,000 Maryland SNAP Households to Put Food on the Table
- 600 Meals, 4 Hours: Inside One School Kitchen Keeping D.C. Families Fed
- Farmers and food banks grapple with broken food supply chain
- No, You Don’t Need To Disinfect Your Groceries. But Here’s How To Shop Safely
- ‘We just can’t feed this many’: 10,000 seek S.A. Food Bank help
- In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: ‘Hunger is rampant’
- Nonprofit organization promotes food security through egg production
- Bullock announces actions to bolster food security for Montana families during COVID-19 pandemic
- California’s farm workers pick America’s essential produce – unprotected from coronavirus
- Coronavirus has more Americans turning directly to farms for food
- DC Greens is Helping Residents Eat Better Through Social Justice
- USDA fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic
- Joe Burrow’s Heisman speech is a call to action on food insecurity
- How To Reduce Food Waste
- The Ripple Effects of Taking SNAP Benefits From One Person
- Trump Administration Tightens Work Requirements for SNAP
- Trump administration proposals could cause millions to lose food stamps
- Food Rescue app saves 235,000 pounds in first year for Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland
- Farm Country Feeds America. But Just Try Buying Groceries There
- Detroit Entrepreneurs Fight Food Insecurity With Lessons Of The Past
- Our Food is Killing Too Many of Us
- Knowing more about money can help strengthen food security, too
- In Stockton, Early Clues Emerge About Impact of Guaranteed Income
- Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
- Texas Hunger Initiative Launches Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty
- Commentary: ‘I’m starving’ means true hunger for too many in Chicago
- Hunger declines, but some fear Trump proposals could reverse the trend
- Household Food Security in the United States in 2018
- A Summer Meals Hero
- Community Action: With 13% of the county struggling with hunger, how to host a food drive in Utah
- The Facts About Food Stamp Fraud
- Opinion: Trump’s cuts to food stamps are indefensible, economically and morally
- New State Laws Aim to Combat Food Waste, Hunger
- Trump administration pursues a rule that would end food stamps for 3.1 million people
- Climate Crisis Contributes to a Rise in World Hunger, UN Report Says
- Community garden blossoms on UMA Bangor campus
- Saturday outreach aims to increase food security, spread JOY
- When summer means hunger, mobile food pantries help close the gap
- American Samoa governor Lolo requests the USDA to ‘expedite’ release of $18M for nutrition assistance
- How Hydroponic School Gardens Can Cultivate Food Justice, Year-Round
- In the race for Indianapolis mayor, ‘food apartheid’ emerges as an issue
- Wonderful opportunity: Summer feeding programs fill the hunger gap for youth
- Frenship ‘Tiger Bites’ program aims to combat child food insecurity during summer
- Little Free Pantries are like Little Free Libraries — but with food
- To Combat Food Waste, These Brooklyn Businesses Teamed Up to Brew Bagel Beer
- To Reduce Food Waste, FDA Urges ‘Best If Used By’ Date Labels
- Maine to draw up plan to eliminate food insecurity by 2030
- TRASHED: Leftovers in the landfill lead to food-waste problem for DC region
- MAZON Congressional Briefing Addresses Hunger Crisis In Rural America
- How one Atlanta startup solved the biggest problem in food waste recovery
- Frances Davidson, noted international expert in nutrition dies
- Denver launches Food Waste Pilot Program with 9 participating local restaurants
- Iowa Youth Institute Encourages Students to Focus on World Hunger
- USDA launches pilot program allowing SNAP recipients to shop for groceries online
- How going hungry affects children for their whole lives
- University of Louisiana food pantry is officially open for business, helping fight food insecurity
- FDA, USDA, EPA Announce Strategy To ‘Win On Reducing Food Waste’
- Bidwell Riverside Food Pantry Expands Facility Due to Increased Food Insecurity
- Metallica call for fans to volunteer for local food banks on May 22
- Elkhart Schools teams up with program to package unused food into take-home meals
- Hunger and the Wisconsin budget
- Feeding the homeless and cutting food waste in Hawaii
- Shopping to reduce food waste is easy on the wallet too
- Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island
- Philabundance announces ambitious program to give people more than food
- Hundreds come together to learn better ways to feed those who deal with food insecurity
- School bus delivers free meals to hundreds of children during spring break
- Minnesota food shelves add ingredients to adapt to diverse clientele
- Why Are So Many Farmers Markets Failing? Because The Market Is Saturated
- In Austin, Food And Tech Industries Connect To Address Food Insecurity
- Growth of food deserts hits home for some Savannah communities
- Farms aren’t tossing perfectly good produce. You are.
- In Dealing With Campus Hunger, One Solution Is to Tell Students Where They Can Get Help
- Hannibal Victory Over Hunger Garden looking for volunteers
- Casa Maria Soup Kitchen continues their decades-long fight against hunger and homelessness
- Teen creates organization focused on ending childhood hunger in Kentucky
- Schools, groups help send students home with food
- Leadership group recognizes opportunities to fight hunger in region
- Hunger – an issue close to home
- Oldest Americans most focused on reducing food waste
- Food Prescription Program Sends Groceries To Pregnant Moms In Need
- ‘I wanted to do more for people than just pray’: Pastor blends faith, farms to end food insecurity in black churches
- University of Arizona increasing resources to help hungry students and lower food insecurity — a growing problem across US campuses
- Food Insecurity: A Look at the Numbers
- Follow Martin Luther King Jr.’s lead to end hunger and poverty | Opinion
- Next shutdown victim: School lunches
- Does Your Box of “Ugly” Produce Really Help the Planet? Or Hurt it?
- Food pantries providing extra aid for furloughed federal workers
- Students are Building Food Recovery Across the U.S.
- Billions in food stamp payments to come early because of shutdown
- This Maine School Makes Nutritious Lunches So Tasty, Parents Ask For Recipes
- Ignore the expiration date How ‘sell by’ standards promote food waste
- U.S. Department of Agriculture moves to tighten restrictions on food stamps
- CU Boulder students going hungry: ‘This really is a problem’
- Denver-area seniors have increasing hunger needs — and it can be hard to ask for help
- Food for the holidays: SNAP develops special produce program for December and the New Year
- New Program Combats Food Deserts With Discounted Rides To Southeast Grocery Stores
- Northwest Arkansas Hunger Relief, Inc. Provides Aid to Other Agencies Battling Hunger
- One in six children in America live in fear of hunger
- Change in law means thousands more SF residents will receive food stamps
- ‘There are people that are literally starving’; College students in Queens facing greater risk of food insecurity
- 7 College Activists Fighting Food and Housing Insecurity on Campus
- It’s Time to Stop Accepting that Food Insecurity is A Normal Part of College
- How one woman is making a difference in the Detroit area
- Bay Area developing ambitious new tools to reduce hunger
- ‘Farming While Black’: A Guide To Finding Power And Dignity Through Food
- First Ever Food Pantry for Veterans Opens in Mississippi
- Weekends without Hunger expands distribution
- Young and Hungry: How hunger is impacting kids in the Tennessee Valley
- After almost 30 years, Forgotten Harvest continues fight against hunger, food waste
- Halloween for Hunger annual food drive set
- Otter Eats program alerts students about free food on campus
- College students compete to bring hunger awareness
- New report sheds sobering light on hunger on college campuses
- Advocates Are Building a Plan to Take on Military Hunger
- Can This Chef Solve the Problem of School Lunch?
- Cuomo: All NY public colleges will have food pantries by end of fall semester
- Philadelphia Food Scraps to Become Gas to Power Trucks and Buses
- Community in combat with food insecurity
- How the Other Half Eats
- Military enlistees struggle with food insecurity
- Case Western Reserve University researchers trying to find solutions to Cleveland’s hunger problems
- Fighting ‘Quiet Hunger’ in Every Philadelphia Zip Code
- Hungry for change: urban foragers take the law into their own hands
- Climate Change Threatens Midwest’s Wild Rice, A Staple For Native Americans
- Summer meals take the edge off persistent child hunger in Maine
- Partnering With Puerto Rico: New York Forms New Agricultural Trade Partnership
- For Many College Students, Hunger ‘Makes It Hard To Focus’
- Generosity Feeds, local volunteers aim to combat high hunger rate
- Farmers’ Market SNAP Crisis Gets ‘Emergency Support,’ But No Long-term Fix
- Hunger Task Force runs its own farm
- Replenishing a Food Desert, One Store at a Time
- Video: food bank to grow hundreds of fish yearly to feed the hungry
- Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk Into Cheese And Yogurt For The Hungry
- Public colleges confront student hunger, housing needs over summer
- Podcast: Feeding America: Solve Hunger by Reducing Food Waste
- Fighting summer hunger block by block, lunch by lunch
- Local youth fights world hunger
- Denton Food Pantry Helps Stave Off Hunger for College Students
- Seniors’ food security feeds on mobility
- Hungry Harvest Continues to Fight Food Waste, Hunger by Expanding into New Markets
- Be a community ‘Food Hero’
- Meal programs ensure student food security over summer
- A Grass-Roots Effort To Feed The Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito
- Michigan farm communities raise $7.3 million for world hunger
- Why hunger is still a problem in America (video)
- Hunger in Philly: ‘It’s a pain in my belly’
- What Does Ugly Produce’s Newfound Popularity Mean for Food Banks?
- Snack Sacks stave hunger for Texas students
- ‘It’s tragic’: Students go hungry in Northern Virginia
- State survey shows hunger, homelessness a common problem at public colleges
- Pennsylvania student raises thousands of dollars to fight hunger
- Vermont Foodbank buys local to fight hunger
- Mississippi still the hungriest state
- Majority of Minnesota State University students are food insecure
- Report: No Kentucky County Untouched by Hunger
- Study offers insight on Indiana hunger issues
- Why our local farmers are heroes
- Interactive Website Illuminates Food Insecurity Across Montgomery County
- Americans Waste About A Pound Of Food A Day, USDA Study Finds
- Seniors Face Hunger in Colorado
- EWU introduces food pantries to end student hunger
- Can the Recovery Quench America’s Food Deserts?
- Danielle Blair: Why not wasting food is important
- Detroit’s ‘food deserts’ are a burden for many
- Establishing Food Security: It Takes a Village
- Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts
- Let’s Grow Maine: A plan to end hunger by 2020
- Photographer Matt Black on documenting poverty
- The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
- Hunger relief project plots out plans for urban garden
- Food Deserts in America
- Afterschool suppers are a game-changer for reducing childhood hunger
- SNAP Decisions: UConn Study Counters Food Stamp Misconceptions
- Marymount University Hunger Banquet Raises Funds For St. Lucy Project
- Op-Ed: International Women’s Day and food security
- Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration
- ‘Women Ending Hunger’ March Challenge at Virginia Food Bank
- Combatting Hunger, 8 Schools Add Dinner
- WATCH-How Brooklyn’s Hottest Brunch Spot Aims for Zero-Waste
- How I Stopped Being Ashamed Of My EBT Card
- Virginia creates fund to eliminate ‘food deserts’ in the state
- New Oakland museum exhibit spotlights local urban farmers
- Food made from ‘ugly’ produce could be a beautiful business opportunity
- “This is Hunger” truck on exhibit in California
- Prison food is making U.S. inmates disproportionately sick
- New York governor calls for food pantries at all public colleges
- Children in charter schools shouldn’t go hungry
- South Carolina organization prepares for Childhood Hunger Rally Week
- This App Helps Food Stamps Last Longer And Recipients Avoid Going Hungry
- Many Silicon Valley residents at risk of hunger
- Residents’ health, food security improved following grocery store’s opening
- One in 5 Philadelphians suffers from food insecurity
- Schools fighting hunger with “share tables”
- José Andrés is feeding Californians displaced by violent wildfires
- Alabama has the Worst Poverty in the Developed World, U.N. Official Says
- Why Food Waste Can Only Remedy—Not Solve—America’s Hunger Problem
- How a California organization uses discarded food to help solve hunger
- New Study Finds That 4.2 Million Kids Experience Homelessness Each Year
- Gleaning: Where surplus and hunger meet
- Surviving ‘food apartheid’ in Mississippi’s capital
- Elementary school ‘share tables’ keep unwanted lunch food out of trash
- James Beard chefs come to the “rescue” of wasted food in Pittsburgh
- Colorado Farmer Fighting Hunger With Free Harvest
- 18 Veterans Programs Feeding the Food Movement
- Following Puerto Rico, José Andrés says his nonprofit may focus more on relief work
- Food to the Rescue: Drexel Food Lab
- For a Tribe With a Tradition of Sharing, Food Sovereignty Is Complicated Economics
- Why so many veterans go hungry — and VA’s new plan to fix it
- Where People Are Actually Going Hungry in Los Angeles
- Puerto Rico emerges from storm; water and some food scarce
- Childhood hunger in North Philadelphia more than triples in 10 years
- Report: Hunger in U.S. Drops to Lowest in a Decade
- Pilot project promotes food security at schools
- Hunger receded after the recession but not for older Americans, U.S. figures show
- Op Ed: Farm-To-Table May Feel Virtuous, But It’s Food Labor That’s Ripe For Change
- How an urban school’s gardening project healed a community
- Both sides back former GOP U.S. Rep. Mark Green at confirmation hearing for U.S. foreign aid post
- Report: Wards 7 And 8 Have Three Grocery Stores For 149,750 People
- Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance
- Trump commits $300 million to fight Africa famine
- Trump to nominate Mark Green as USAID administrator
- Portland’s new strategy to fight hunger: Help people to grow their food
- Bill Gates: Cutting Foreign Aid Makes America Less Safe
- Food Stamp Recipients Increasingly Are The Working Poor
- Could Meals On Wheels Really Lose Funding? Yes, But It’s Hard To Say How Much
- A Bumblebee Gets New Protection on Obama’s Way Out
- Food As Medicine: It’s Not Just A Fringe Idea Anymore
- USAID Administrator Gayle Smith’s Exit Memo to President Obama
- Rockefeller Foundation Picks Rajiv J. Shah, a Trustee, as President
- Nonprofit seeks to end hunger with mobile app
- Meet the man using your leftovers to change Washington, DC for the better
- Doubts about the promised bounty of genetically modified crops
- In a wealthy Virginia suburb, their cars are their beds
- U.S. household incomes soared in 2015. Number of people in poverty declines by 3.5 million.
- In historic move, Gov. Jerry Brown expands overtime pay for California farmworkers
- How the sugar industry shifted the blame to fat
- Why good nutrition is important
- The wealthy have nearly healed from recession. The poor haven’t even started.
- The millions of Americans Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton barely mention: the poor
- As November approaches, courts deal a series of blows to voter ID laws
- America wastes $160 billion in food every year but is too busy to stop
- After 20 years, TANF provides little to poor families
- Obama will ensure his global development policy outlasts his presidency
- House and Senate pass Global Food Security Act
- North Dakota voters side with family farms and continue 84-year-old ban on corporate ownership
- Hunger’s devastating effect on our seniors
- Bread for the World Members visit Congress to advocate for child and maternal nutrition
- Congress digs in for a turf war on poverty
- Aging in the fields (part 1): No alternative but to keep working
- Cornell Nutrition Division Partners with World Health Organization
- From belief to outrage: The decline of the middle class reaches the next American town
- World Hunger Education Service celebrates its 40th anniversary
- ‘We don’t know why it came to this’ As white women between 25 and 55 die at spiking rates, a close look at one tragedy
- The controversial reason tens of thousands of people just lost their food stamps
- Summer meals transportation barriers and solutions
- What would actually happen if we stopped eating so much meat?
- What nutrition experts think is missing from the new Dietary Guidelines
- Asia’s demand for lentils means North American farms switch to pulses
- Near the U.S. Capitol, an encampment of the homeless is removed by city workers
- Citing poverty’s toll on children, pediatricians call for a stronger safety net
- Dietary guidelines ignore broad U.S. support for sustainablity
- Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research?
- In an improving economy, places in distress
- Poorest areas miss out on boons of recovery, study finds
- A Harvard sociologist on watching families lose their homes
- Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing
- The trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses
- Who are the low-income childless adults facing the loss of SNAP in 2016?
- Step by step on a desperate trek of migrants through Mexico
- The striking power of poverty to turn young boys into jobless men
- Failures in handling unaccompanied migrant minors have led to trafficking
- Thou shalt not toss food: Enlisting religious groups to fight waste
- GOP policy forum: Its high notes and low notes
- Republican candidates, minus Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, play nice at poverty forum
- Deportation raids to continue, despite outcry
- A lonely road: For the poor in the Deep South’s cities, simply applying for a job exposes the barriers of a particularly pervasive and isolating form of poverty
- This superintendent has figured out how to make school work for poor kids. Jennings, Mo. schools leader added more mental health care, a food pantry and shelter for homeless kids
- Navaho Nation’s nutrition crisis
- In Memoriam: Pat Kutzner, World Hunger Education Service Founder
- Income inequality has squeezed the middle class out of the majority
- Albuquerque, revising approach toward the homeless, offers them jobs
- A grim bargain: Once a weakness, low-skilled workers who get paid little have become the Deep South’s strength
- Senate confirms Gayle E. Smith as head of USAID
- Bread for the World puts price tag on hunger in the United States: $160 billion in health care
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) work requirements don’t bring stable jobs, higher earnings
- Prestigious medical journals rejected stunning study on deaths among middle-aged whites
- A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate. Drugs, alcohol and suicide appear to be taking a toll on men and women ages 45-54 with no college education.
- Carson’s positions on poverty create tension with rags-to-riches life story. On his way up the ladder, Carson benefitted from several government assistance programs for the poor.
- Bread is broken. Industrial production destroyed both the taste and the nutritional value of wheat. One scientist believes he can undo the damage.
- Commemorating 20 years of U.S. food security measurement
- For D.C.’s desperate, a refuge from homelessness is about to disappear
- Pediatricians urged to ask all kids if they have enough food
- He made a promise to help others. Now he’s giving tents to the homeless . Arnold Harvey began bringing food and clothes to the homeless on his trash route about a decade ago.
- Princeton economist wins Nobel prize for research into how rich and poor people make decisions about how much to buy and how much to save
- A look at what’s driving lower purchases of school lunches
- Why world leaders dined on trash at the U.N.
- U.S. Global Development Policy and Agenda 2030 Fact Sheet
- In Pope Francis’s outreach to the poor, his deeds speak louder than his words
- The long, strange tale of a California farm’s attempt to break its workers union
- Pope Francis, in Washington, addresses poverty and climate
- The radical roots of the great grape strike
- America’s poverty problem hasn’t changed
- Lower wages for whites, higher wages for immigrants, and inequality for all
- 14 percent of U.S.families food insecure in 2014; 5.6 percent very food insecure, USDA report says
- Understanding the historic divergence between productivity and workers pay
- Occupational wage declines since the Great Recession: Low-wage occupations see largest real wage declines
- Low income workers see biggest drop in income
- The surging ranks of America’s ultrapoor
- The Pacific Coast Farm-Worker Rebellion: From Baja California to Washington state, indigenous farm workers are standing up for their rights
- Frank E. Petersen, first black general in the Marines, dies at 83
- Amelia Boynton Robinson, activist beaten on Selma bridge, dies at 104
- George M. Houser, organizer of an early Freedom Ride, dies at 99
- Louis Stokes, Congressman from Ohio and champion of the poor, dies at 90
- Julian Bond, charismatic civil rights leader, dies at 75
- Black poverty differs from white poverty
- It’s unconstitutional to ban the homeless from sleeping outside, the federal government says
- Coke funds scientists who shift blame for obesity away from bad diets
- A year after Ferguson, housing segregation defies tools to erase it
- U.S. food aid: Charity begins at home. More than 60 years after the U.S. Food for Peace program was launched, vested interests continue to hinder reforms to allow for more local sourcing of food aid.
- How Americans can lose a lot of weight without giving up a single calorie
- New York plans $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast food
- Presidential candidates answer: How will you help the hungry and poor?
- National push for $15 minimum wage hits home for U.S. Senate workers
- The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance calls churches and individuals to join in a world-wide “zero hunger” challenge
- How Americans compare with the global population: 56 percent of Americans were in the high income class, compared with 7 percent of the world’s population.
- Farm labor groups make some progress on wages and working conditions
- A plea for bees (video)
- Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects
- Joining voices with Malala on Capitol Hill
- Troubled delta system is California’s water battleground
- The technology that could revolutionize the war on hunger
- Why does almost half of America’s food go to waste?
- Researchers: Five ignored factors affect outcomes for poor children. Paper argues that child-rearing style, single parenthood, shift work, lack of health care and lead pull down scores.
- Picking peas should bring a better life
- Triqui farmworkers struggle to survive and organize in California
- Thousands of farmworkers in California can’t make a living
- WIC experienced largest decrease in participation in program’s history in 2014
- Replanting America: 90 percent of what we eat could come from local farms. Changing what’s grown where could provide Americans with vegetables from close to home.
- Trader Joe’s ex-president opens store with aging food and cheap meals
- What it really means to rely on food stamps and welfare
- Why entrepreneurs ae suddenly finding the beauty in ugly produce
- A father’s initiative: Paul Gayle had no job, no money, a new baby and 16 lessons from the Obama administration to teach him what to do next
- Conquering world hunger: Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and the food crisis after World War II
- Senators: Global hunger a national security problem
- Giving the poor easy access to healthy food doesn’t mean they’ll buy it
- Could drought slow America’s most vibrant economy?
- The Price of Nice Nails: Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found
- Food aid showdown in U.S. Congress
- Safety net does more to ease poverty than previously thought, new study finds
- Inside the hidden world of homeless teen mothers. Precarious housing is one turn in a downward spiral of instability that can suffuse all facets of a young life
- These things can change: wages and working conditions in agriculture
- 1.5 million missing black men
- New Kansas rules would limit spending of welfare benefits
- Working, but needing public assistance anyway
- Firms move to gut California’s farm labor law
- States tighten conditions for improving food stamps as economy improves
- Food safety law’s funding is far below estimated requirement
- World Health Day 2015: Five food safety tips
- Maximum wage! How much CEOs earn per hour
- Beneath California crops, groundwater crisis grows
- House legislation supporting USAID Feed the Future program introduced by Rep. Chris Smith
- After the story is published, a minimum wage worker loses her job for talking to the Washington Post
- Environmental group sues E.P.A. over Monarch butterfly demise
- Five organic fruits and vegetables that are worth the higher cost, due to high levels of pesticide in non-organic choices
- Pesticides in Produce
- Food industry waging a bitter battle over proposal on added-sugar labels
- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
- The terrible loneliness of growing up poor in Robert Putnam’s America. “Life is not something you do, it’s something you endure.”
- As Walmart gives raises, other employers may have to go above minimum wage
- The 25-cent raise: What life is like after a minimum wage increase
- A ‘megadrought’ will grip U.S. in the coming decades, NASA researchers say
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) costs declining, expected to fall much further. trend reflects recent benefit reduction and lower caseloads
- Walmart raising wages to at least $9
- Anne Moody, Mississippi civil rights activist, dies at 74
- Middle class shrinks further as more fall out instead of climbing up
- Prevent homelessness? Break the cycle of poverty? It’s not just his dream but his job.
- Grapes of wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize
- Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty
- This powerful Reddit thread reveals how the poor get by in America
- Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy
- So, you have a minimum wage job. Now what? For many, moving beyond the first rung is the hard part.
- 2015: The year Republicans strike back at Obama food policies
- Hard winter for California farm workers
- The college trap that keeps people poor (Series)
- The devalued American worker
- Congress to nutritionists: Don’t talk about the environment
- Why America’s middle class is lost
- In final spending bill, salty food and belching cows are the winners
- House oks Feed the Future authority
- How the Midwest food and agriculture sector relies on immigrant labor
- Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for US tables
- The vast majority of poor neighborhoods aren’t gentrifying. They’re stuck in poverty.
- Unsteady incomes keep millions behind on bills. Nearly seven million people working part time would prefer full-time jobs but can’t find them
- Food assistance needs remain high
- Why wage growth disparity tells the story of America’s half-formed economic recovery
- Child homelessness in U.S. hit all-time high in recent years, new report says
- Why Whole Foods is moving into one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago
- Federally contracted food workers strike over wages
- Election day payday: Five states vote to raise minimum wage
- Fort Lauderdale arrests 90-year-old man, 2 pastors for feeding homeless. “Drop that plate right now!”
- Nation’s first soda tax passes in Berkeley, fails in San Francisco
- The stark difference between what poor babies and rich babies eat: Poor children often are fed foods that help establish long-lasting, unhealthful eating patterns
- US families that receive Supplemental Nutrtion Program assistance must balance multiple priorities to achieve a healthful diet
- Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation present the 2014 Good Food Org Guide
- Media reporting on migration rarely includes voices of migrants and misses connection to food security, new research reveals
- The bottom 90 percent are poorer today than they were in 1987
- Report: 21 US cities restrict sharing food with homeless people
- Iowa’s role in feeding China
- Family farms produce 80 percent of world’s food, speculators seek land
- Hondurans flee violence, then are deported by US to face more, Human Rights Watch charges
- Pentagon signals security risks of climate change: terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages
- Bread for the World releases hunger and poverty fact sheets for each state
- How school lunch became the latest political batttleground
- 14.3 percent of US households were food insecure in 2013; percentage down slightly from 2011
- New hunger figures show millions of Americans continue to struggle
- The state of obesity in the United States
- Feed the Future legislation introduced in Congress
- Minimum wage: who makes it?
- Poverty fell and health coverage improved in 2013, but economic recovery is slow to reach many
- US finally recoups the nearly 9 million jobs lost during the recession; unemployment holds steady at 6.3 percent
- New USAID nutrition strategy reviewed at Washington meeting
- Seattle approves $15 minimum wage, setting new standard for big cities
- Number of children living in poverty drops sharply, Census Bureau says
- Why temporary assistance may not be enough for the neediest of families
- House committee votes to allow schools to opt out of nutritional program
- The danger of being pushed off public assistance: For America’s poor, the security of public benefits can outweigh the risks of a low-paying, uncertain job
- Michigan joins move to increase hourly wage
- The way North: a day by day journey by two reporters up Interstate 35 from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration
- Climate change will disrupt half of America’s bird species, study says
- America’s growing food inequality problem
- Great Society at 50: LBJ’s Job Corps will cost taxpayers $1.7 billion this year. Does it work?
- The Great Society at 50
- The changing face of temporary employment
- More workers are claiming ‘wage theft’
- Jobless contend with weight gain as they search for work
- What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of it
- The GMO fight ripples down the food chain: Facing consumer pressure, more companies are jettisoning GMOs from their foods
- Living on the streets of Oakland. The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories.
- Climate change study finds US is already widely affected
- On the upper West Side of New York City, a house divided by income
- Don’t think Obama has reduced inequality? These numbers prove that he has
- Rising seas (photographs of vulnerable US and international locations)
- The case for spider conservation: They keep pests from devouring humans’ food supply
- Changed life of the poor: Better off but far behind
- Cash crops with dividends:Financiers buying up farmland and selling it in the form of securities to investors
- In Florida tomato fields, a penny buys progress
- Drier than the Dust Bowl: waiting for relief in rural America. As wide swaths of rural America suffer through historic drought, they’re being left further behind.
- At a huge free medical clinic in Southwest Virginia, misery that shouldn’t exist
- The American middle class is no longer the world’s richest, and the poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans
- Fifty years into the War on Poverty, hardship hits back
- Report urges US commitment to addressing impact of climate change on global food security
- Ugh. I miss it. Transitioning from military to civilian life and from camaraderie to isolation
- Neonicotinoids: A reason millions of bees are dying
- Trait by trait, plant scientists swiftly weed out bad seeds through marker-assisted breeding
- Income gap, meet the longevity gap
- Paying employees to stay, not to go: Boloco and Shake Shack offer above average pay
- The relationship between single mothers and poverty is not as simple as it seems
- Veronica Maz, helped start 3 DC social service agencies, dies at 89
- What we know about how poor neighborhoods become wealthier: very few of them do and many of those that do are in cities with substantial income growth
- What kept food security from improving after the recession?
- More college students battle hunger as education and living costs rise
- Can America learn to love misshapen veggies? An ex-Trader Joe’s exec’s plan to reduce food waste and feed the hungry
- The recovery puzzle: A new factory in Ohio struggles to match jobs to job-seekers
- Hiring rises, but number of jobless stays high
- Poverty endures in a Texas colonia
- Boom meets bust in Texas: Atop a sea of oil, poverty digs in
- The places they’ll go: Nuns working on the margins
- Cities are passing higher minimum wages – and leaving the suburbs further behind
- Here’s why the gender wage gap hasn’t budged in a decade
- New IRIN film: Bangui’s ghettos
- This is what a job in the US’s new manufacturing industry looks like—half the pay, working for a temp agency, no sick days, but still it’s a job
- Spending on violence in the United States
- Half of US farmland being eyed by private equity
- Minimum-wage hike would reduce poverty, but might cost 500,000 jobs, Congressional Budget Ofice reports
- Crossing borders and changing lives, lured by higher state minimum wages
- Obama to propose $1 billion to prepare for climate change in US
- IMF director cites dangerous increase in inequality in many countries including India and US
- Farm bill on verge of passage after a long three years of haggling in Congress
- Severe drought has western US fearing worst
- The 2014 farm bill nutrition title includes bipartisan improvements to SNAP while excluding harsh House provisions
- Obama to raise minimum wage for government contract workers
- The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans. As US wages stagnate, food stamp use growing fastest among workers with some college training.
- Farm bill compromise will change programs and reduce spending. Bill must now be voted on by both House and Senate.
- Low wage workers have far more education than they did in in 1968, but they make far less
- Economic mobility hasn’t changed in a half-century in America, economists declare
- The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here is how the Earth will get its revenge.
- Dead broke, not deadbeat: Baltimore rethinks welfare policy
- One in three Americans slipped below the poverty line between 2009 and 2011
- Graphic: 50 years of poverty
- 50 years later, war on poverty is a mixed bag(analysis)
- Majority of Americans want minimum wage to be increased, poll finds
- Here’s how the safety net has—and hasn’t—reduced poverty in the US
- Invisible child: Dasani’s homeless life
- Study: US poverty rate decreased over past half-century thanks to safety-net programs
- Obama: Income inequality a defining challenge
- Push for minimum wage hike led by localities, Democrats
- Life on $7.25 an hour: Older workers are increasingly entering fast-food industry
- Among American workers, poll finds unprecedented anxiety about jobs, economy
- Caught in unemployment’s revolving door
- Blighted cities prefer razing to rebuilding. Half of the nation’s 20 largest cities in 1950 have lost at least one-third of their populations
- Too much of too little: A diet fueled by food stamps is making South Texans obese but leaving them hungry
- Trans-fats to be phased out, FDA says
- Big corporate spending pays off in Washington’s genetically modified food fight
- Children from poor families lag in cognitive development and other areas, report says
- Meet the American nomads of Walmart’s plentiful parking lots
- Food giants pour millions into defeating Washington GMO label measure
- Food stamps will get cut by $5 billion this week—and more cuts could follow
- Ohio governor defies GOP with defense of social safety net
- Majority of public school children in South and West now live near or below poverty line, study says
- McDonald’s low wages cost taxpayers $1.2 billion annually
- Help end hunger on World Food Day
- US plans to curb military assistance to Egypt
- Faithful Filibuster: Christian leaders read Scripture, exhort Congress to care
- Marian Wright Edelman marks 40 years of advocacy at Children’s Defense Fund
- House approves GOP plan to slash food stamp funding
- The mismeasure of poverty
- Household income, poverty rate are flat for first time since recession, census shows
- 15 percent of Americans living in poverty
- US to include home care aides in wage and overtime law
- House GOP seeks to cut food stamps by 5 percent
- AFL-CIO has plan to add millions of non-union members
- Walmart workers protest over minimum wage in 15 US cities
- On the edge of poverty, at the center of a debate on food stamps
- Fast food workers strike for higher pay
- How poverty taxes the brain
- Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites remains the same
- Low wage workers are older than you think: 88 percent of workers who would benefit from a higher minimum wage are over 20, one-third are over 40
- Travel guide for African Americans, civil rights activists pointed way to 1963 march. During the Jim Crow era, laws restricted black Americans from patronizing gas stations, restaurants and hotels
- After Martin Luther King’s 1963 speech, FBI began spying on civil rights leader
- Median income rises, but is still six percent below level at start of recession in 2007
- Catholic push to overhaul immigration goes to pews
- Fast food workers call for nationwide walkout August 29 in support of $15 minimum wage
- California discourages needy from signing up for food stamps. The state’s participation rate is the lowest in the US—only about half of those qualified get the aid—making it the envy of more-conservative states.
- Head of secret court says court’s ability to police US spying program is limited
- NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
- Trade with developing countries just got more expensive, thanks to Tom Coburn
- The Workers Defense Project, a union in spirit
- Why is the U.S.’s 1 percent so much richer than everywhere else?
- Two email services shut down to protect consumer data
- Poor children show a decline in obesity rate
- Post-recession, a greater share of food-insecure children have parents who are unemployed or working part-time
- Other agencies clamor for data NSA compiles
- Newly declassified documents on phone records program released
- A day’s strike seeks to raise fast-food pay
- In climbing income ladder, location matters. A study finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston.
- President Obama: Trayvon Martin could have been me (video)
- Billions in debt, Detroit tumbles into insolvency
- License plate cameras track millions of Americans
- In Senate, an emotional appeal to restore ‘heart and soul’ of Voting Rights Act is made by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a leader of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery
- McDonald’s offers budget tool for workers— who may need a second job
- Path ahead is unclear for food stamp funding
- Sisters map hunger solutions—give 3 years to visit 93 programs in 50 states and DC
- Five years ago a Washington DC housing project was torn down to promote development in the area, with a promise to rebuild and return the people displaced. After five years, plenty of development, but no housing for the poor people displaced.
- In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck
- After Supreme Court ruling, southern States rush to establish new laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, which would make it harder for many poor people and members of minorities to vote
- US postal service logging all mail for law enforcement
- North Carolina’s deep cut to jobless benefits takes effect amid protests
- Take the impossible “literacy” test Louisiana gave black voters in the 1960s
- Interview with Daniel Shaughnessy, Chairman of the Board of World Hunger Education Service
- Supreme Court stops use of key part of Voting Rights Act
- House rejects farm bill as food stamp cuts prove divisive
- New Mexico has the highest rates of childhood hunger, study says
- In California’s rich San Joaquin valley, Latinos stuck in poverty
- National Security Agency collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
- Entitlement changes would put nearly half of elderly population at financial risk, report says
- National Security Agency collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
- Sequester stalls Meals on Wheels programs
- Monsanto shares fall as South Korea joins pause in wheat imports
- Unapproved genetically modified wheat from Monsanto found in Oregon field
- Richest 20 percent get half the overall savings from US tax breaks, Congressional Budget Office says
- Disability is an important risk factor for food insecurity
- Food stamp program faces cuts as farm bill takes shape
- Seeking food ingredients that aren’t gene-altered
- Half of America in poverty—and it’s creeping upward
- Pivoting from a war footing, Obama acts to curtail drones
- Biggest GOP food stamp foe gets huge farm subsidies
- Low-wage workers picket outside federal buildings
- US committees reject proposal on foreign food aid
- More seniors living in poverty—one in seven
- The Goodman Affair: Monsanto targets the heart of science
- Apple’s web of tax shelters saved it billions, panel finds
- Wells dry, fertile plains turn to dust
- 84 percent of NYC fast food workers report wage theft in a new survey
- Supreme Court rules for Monsanto, says farmer violated genetically modified soybeans’ patent
- Millions of Americans live in extreme poverty. Here’s how they get by.
- Federal contractors employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart and Mc Donald’s combined, new study indicates
- Workers claim race bias as farms rely on immigrants
- There may be millions more poor people in the US than you think
- Shift to a service-driven economy delays job recovery
- Suicides soar in past decade—annual total surpasses car crash deaths
- Detroit race wall located on Birwood Street that once separated whites and blacks now haven for art
- In Florida, a food-stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices
- The positive economics of ‘leaning in’—economists estimate that that between 1960 and 2008, about 15% to 20% of the growth in productivity, or output per hour of work, came from removing the barriers that blocked many white women and blacks of both genders from realizing their potential
- Why business and labor can’t agree on an immigrant labor program
- Study of men’s falling income cites single parents families as a possible cause
- Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle
- At Pentagon, ‘pivot to Asia’ becomes ‘shift to Africa’
- Panel examines payroll fraud
- The hard lives—and high suicide rate—of Native American children on reservations
- A private boom amid Detroit’s public blight
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) provided a weak safety net during and after recession
- Michigan naming fiscal manager to help Detroit
- Unemployment rates are projected to remain high for whites, Latinos, and African Americans throughout 2013
- President Obama calls on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $9 from $7.25
- North Carolina lawmakers move to slash unemployment help
- Militant threats test role of a US command in Africa
- Farmer’s use of genetically modified soybeans grows into Supreme Court case
- Cardiss Collins, fighter in Congress for equality and the poor, dies at 81
- Long-term jobless folks’ outlook brightens
- US could fall short of 2020 climate goal, new study says, but target remains in reach
- Composting efforts gain traction across the United States
- US and Mexico reach deal to increase tomato prices
- Virginia eugenics victims would receive compensation for sterilization under bill
- 23 states raising minimum wage or weighing increases
- Proposal to raise tip wages resisted
- Share of the work force in a union falls to a 97-Year low, 11.3%
- Ranks of working poor increasing
- Hanging on: Life in the red
- Younger Americans die earlier, and are less healthy than counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction
- ‘Great Society’ agenda led to great—and lasting—philosophical divide
- US continues to add jobs at a slow pace, report shows
- For poor, leap to college often ends in a hard fall
- The “undeserving” poor: The American welfare system has grown, but so have the ranks of the poor, and as the US tries to focus help on those deemed most worthy, millions of adults are getting squeezed
- After recession, more young adults are living on the street
- HSBC—Too big to indict? A dark day for the rule of law (editorial)
- HSBC bank to pay US government a $1.3 billion fine for vast drug and other money-laundering “lapses”
- Homeless rates in US held steady during recession, study says, but big gains are elusive
- In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty
- Jobless rate edges down to its lowest level in 4 years
- US food banks raise alarm as drought dents government supplies
- The biggest challenge to immigration bill may be guest workers
- Two million could see unemployment benefits disappear by year’s end
- Unionizing the bottom of the pay scale
- Balancing act: Low-wage workers struggle to care for families, keep jobs
- The new American job: A part-time life as hours shrink and shift
- Standard of living is in the shadows as election issue
- Ohio pushes welfare recipients to find work and exit the system
- California’s Central Valley is our greatest food resource. So why are we treating it so badly?
- Romney calls for foreign aid overhaul at Clinton Global Initiative event
- In suburbia, a dizzying fall from middle-class grace
- America’s hidden unemployed: too discouraged to count
- Romney says 47 percent of Americans—those who back President Obama are victims who are “dependent upon government” and “pay no income tax.” (video)
- Fed ties new aid to jobs recovery in forceful move
- Income gap between the wealthiest 20 percent of American households and the rest of the country grew sharply in 2011, Census Bureau reports
- Obama, Romney answer faith leaders’ call to address poverty in election (video)
- Outlook grim for middle income workers, report says
- New Initiatives in Development Education
- Jobs grow by 96,000 in August; 13,500,000 still unemployed
- Poverty Causes Mental Illness and Behavioral Problems, North Carolina Study Shows
- Ten percent of U.S. households couldn’t adequately feed kids in 2011
- A record 46.7 million Americans—or roughly one in five adults—used food stamps in June, the Department of Agriculture reports
- Communal gardening helps refugees sink roots in a new land
- Egypt and US near deal on debt relief
- The real Romney-Ryan budgets cuts aren’t to Medicare. They’re to programs for the poor.
- 15 innovations making school lunches healthier and more sustainable
- Training cutbacks thwart jobless
- decades on, US starts cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam
- US added 163,000 jobs in July; unemployment rate ticks up to 8.3 percent
- US poverty on track to reach 46-year high; suburbs, underemployed workers, children hit hard
- Charity ready to defy Philadelphia ban on feeding homeless
- USDA prepared to approve soy plant genetically modified to withstand 2,4-D, a highly toxic herbicide used to defoliate during Vietnam war
- Drought in U.S. reaching levels not seen in 50 years, pushing up crop prices
- Two classes, divided by ‘I do’
- Most Americans earn more than parents, but only a third rise in income class, study says
- Job growth remains tepid
- ‘No child left behind’ law whittled down by White House: 26 states are now relieved from meeting the goal of making all students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014
- Midwest’s heat dashes hopes for a bumper crop of corn
- Lost in recession, toll on underemployed and underpaid
- Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says
- Forced to early social security, jobless pay a steep price
- FAO food price index drops sharply: World cereal supplies expected to be abundant in 2012/13
- Worst US job data in a year signals stalling recovery
- USDA targets food-stamp fraud with state effort
- Doubling direct foreign aid could hurt US contractors
- Firms to invest in food production for world’s poor
- US ethanol policy costs Mexico $250 – 500 million each year, fuels hunger
- Extended jobless benefits cut in eight states
- House bill offers $261 billion in cuts to programs helping struggling Americans in order to save military spending
- Reasons abound for lack of job growth (jobs added in April 115,000; workers dropping out of job market 342,000; still unemployed 13,700,000)
- 4 years later, race is still an issue for some voters
- America’s long-term unemployed: ‘For those looking for work, it’s very bleak’
- CEO pay and the top 1%–How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fueled income inequality
- Defense trumps poverty in Republican House
- Challengers for World Bank leadership ask for ‘a fair chance’
- The future of work: trends and challenges for low-income workers
- Jim Yong Kim secures World Bank job amid criticism of US domination of role. Seoul-born Kim beats Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who said the decision was not made on merit.
- Republicans’ budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor
- Food stamps helped reduce poverty rate, study finds
- Lawmakers face increasing pressure to raise the minimum wage
- Federal funds to train the jobless are drying up
- Welfare limits left poor adrift as recession hit
- Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank
- ‘Special interest’ tax breaks would be tough to cut, Congressional Research Service says
- US economy adds 227,000 jobs in February; unemployment rate remains at 8.3 percent; 13 million people still unemployed
- Online, Joseph Kony and the Lords’s Resistance Army soar to topic number one
- US special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” commander says
- Pentagon commander says US special forces in India and four other Asian countries
- Families in extreme poverty double
- US troops now in 4 African countries to fight Lords Resistance Army
- Even critics of the safety net increasingly depend on it
- Education gap grows between rich and poor
- Farmers still fighting for immigrant guest-worker program
- Unemployment drop still leaves low skill workers behind
- As jobs go global, US workers pay
- Gates Foundation gives $750 million to Global Fund to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Obama says nation must address inequality
- For a jobless, struggling South Carolina man, reality isn’t a political debate. Entitlement society? Opportunity society? Steven Murdock sees little of either.
- Harder for Americans to rise from lower rungs
- After three decades, tax break for ethanol expires
- Organic agriculture may be outgrowing its ideals
- Wealth gap widens between US Congress and constituents (Congress median wealth $750,000; constituents $20,500)
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is now helping 46 million people afford an adequate diet
- Hungry families sleep on the sidewalk, waiting for food in Hayward California
- Contrary to “Entitlement Society” rhetoric, over nine-tenths of entitlement benefits go to elderly, disabled, or working households
- I have a dream
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- What does it mean to help one family?
- We live in Aleppo. Here’s how we survive.
- Child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria

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- 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.

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