The world has made uneven but steady progress in reducing overall levels of hunger during the past two decades, new research shows. At the same time, more countries now have higher levels of hunger than in 2010…
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Warning of an impending humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday said that if nothing is done to tackle hunger in the region, a whole generation could be at risk.
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Jeremy Everett is the founder and executive director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, a capacity-building, anti-hunger project within Baylor University, and is a senior fellow with World Hunger Relief…
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We were thrilled to have our Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to send…
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Important gains have been made in the global fight against tuberculosis (TB). Each year, fewer people are being diagnosed with the disease.
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On this World Food Day, I am reminded of the more than 821 million people around the world experiencing severe food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Is it possible to end world hunger? The new book The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (IVP Books), edited by Jenny Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani, makes the case that what once seemed unthinkable is now within reach.
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These days, it seems like every speech and event in the global health and development space includes a call to break down silos and a push for new approaches that are inclusive, universal, and multisectoral.
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On Friday Carmen talked with Ambassador Mark Lagon about The Global Fight to end AIDS, TB and Malaria – focusing on tuberculosis. Carmen met Mark as an outgrowth of spending time with her today’s guest, Jenny Dyer.
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Haitians have taken to the streets repeatedly in the past 16 months, to protest corruption, inequality and economic hardship. Since the latest demonstrations began on 15 September, sweeping the streets of the capital, Port-au-prince…
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Nashville Soccer Club’s midfielder, Lebo Moloto, hails from Polokwane, South Africa. Polokwane is a rural village about four hours north of Johannesburg. Moloto was scouted as a child, and he moved to Johannesburg to play soccer at the at the age of eleven.
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Last night, we were able to celebrate the launch of The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World in our hometown bookstore, Parnassus, in Nashville, TN.
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WASHINGTON - The executive director of the United Nations' World Food Program has wrapped up a visit to Sudan after helicoptering into the volatile South Kordofan region to assess humanitarian needs.
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October 2019: “More children and young people are surviving, but far too few are thriving,” notes the 2019 State of the World’s Children (SOWC) report.
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On Monday a trio of American economists—Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer—won the Nobel Prize in economics for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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Yesterday, it was beyond exciting to finally FINALLY see The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World out in print! There is something so amazing to see an abstract idea come together in tactile form that is almost a miracle.
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This summer, United Nations agencies published three reports that offer a sobering assessment of the current state of international security and development, focusing on multidimensional poverty, hunger, and forcible displacement.
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With his family’s goats trotting ahead, 9-year-old Nathan Choobwe walks briskly through a field of dead maize stalks in Moyo, Zambia. Although it’s only been a month since harvest time began in April, the stunted corn has been dried up for much longer, says Eunice Siamooya, Nathan’s mother.
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Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished and not developing properly, UNICEF revealed on Tuesday, in its most comprehensive report on children, food and nutrition in 20 years.
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Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be “chronically undernourished”. What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food?
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