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Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity

by WHES Team November 21, 2025

Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity As part of its mission to educate about hunger, WHES has put together an index of publicly available lesson plans on hunger and food insecurity. Whether you are a sc...

In Case You Missed It: “Without investment in innovation, volatility will send farmers like me backward”

by Sarah Tweeten, Des Moines Register November 11, 2025

In an opinion editorial for the Des Moines Register second-year corn and soybean farmer Sarah Tweeten explores the pressures US farmers currently face including price drops, cost increases for equipment and inputs like ...

USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations Now Available from Third Parties

by November 11, 2025

By: WHES Board (*Note this post was updated from its original Feb 18, 2025 version to add the two new pages with DEC resources.)
  American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work.  In early 2...

United States Cancels Household Food Security Report

by Kathy Goss, WHES Board Trustee October 5, 2025

In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995.  For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households...

Universal School Meal State Policies’ Effects on Food Security

by Kathy Goss https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(25)00433-7/fulltext August 18, 2025

The U.S. School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are the largest child nutrition programs in America, providing nutritious meals to some 30 million children.1  The 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act helped impro...

Social Marketing and Childhood Diets Implications of MAHA in the U.S.

by August 2, 2025

A recent report by Dr. Claudia Parvanta, reviews the implications of the current U.S. Administration's May 2025 "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) report for children's diets and nutritional education in the U.S.  Responding to a request from the S...

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