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Photo: UC Riverside’s R’Pantry is growing with cross-campus support. [courtesy UCR]

Establishing Food Security: It Takes a Village

by Sandra Baltazar Martinez Inside UCR April 22, 2018

University of California Riverside is helping grow the campus food pantry, R'Pantry, with the support of staff, faculty, and students. Using a combination of donated food, a community garden, and cash donations, they serve over a thousand students in...

Photo: Composting food scraps is one way to reduce food waste, but preventing excess food in the first place is better, says the EPA. [Paul Mansfield Photography/Getty Images]

Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts

by Menaka Wilhelm NPR April 16, 2018

The Center for Biological Diversity and The "Ugly" Fruit and Veg Campaign recently asked the 10 largest U.S. supermarkets how they handle food waste, and gave each store's efforts a letter grade: no store received an A grade....

Let’s Grow Maine: A plan to end hunger by 2020

by Diane Russell and Rep. Scott Hamann Sun Journal April 15, 2018

The U.S. state of Maine can boost food security and support local farmers by purchasing wholesale vegetables and fruit for distribution to families in need....

Photographer Matt Black at work. (Photo: CBS NEWS)

Photographer Matt Black on documenting poverty

by Sara Kugel CBS News April 15, 2018

For the last four years Black has traveled the country, driving nearly 90,000 miles through 46 states, photographing marginalized communities. He calls his project "The Geography of Poverty."  Watch the video to learn more....

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TED Talk: Why Bees Are Disappearing

by Marla Spivak TED Talk April 12, 2018

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years. So why did colonies recently start dying en masse? ...

Caleb Torres, a George Washington University student, regularly skipped meals his freshman year because he didn’t have enough money to buy food. [Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post]

The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat

by Caitlin Dewey The Washington Post April 3, 2018

According to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, 36 percent of US students at 66 surveyed colleges and universities do not get enough to eat, and a similar number lack a secure p...

  • World Hunger Education
    Service
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    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.