Access to clean water remains a huge problem in Zimbabwe and many other African countries.
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The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
SNAP can help low-income families eat a more balanced diet.
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This pillar of the American safety net originated as a solution to the paradox of hunger in the midst of plenty.
Golden rice, right, compared to white rice, left.
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Golden Rice – a controversial genetically modified product designed to combat malnutrition – has been approved as safe in the Philippines. But key questions remain unanswered.
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Our research has found that staff discussions of Christianity in food banks may put people off using them.
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Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
Children who experience multiple forms of malnutrition are at the greatest risk of early death.
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We found that current indicators underestimate nearly 6 million children suffering from malnutrition.
Millions of America’s youth experience food insecurity.
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Faced with uncertainty over their next meal, teens in a Texas study reveal the various things they resort to in order to put food on the family table.
For most of human history, people had access to food either by producing it themselves, or through trade.
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Hunger affects people’s health. It also affects their dignity and their ability to live full and productive lives.
Hunger affects students’ ability to focus.
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Food insecurity remains a serious challenge among university students in South Africa.
Fish for sale in a Dakar, Senegal.
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Small-scale fisheries buffer poverty and hunger in coastal countries.
A woman and baby on a bicycle taxi in Salima, Malawi. Some Malawian men are becoming more involved in childcare.
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While not all men are willing to become involved in women and children’s health, some situations force them take on ‘women’s work’.
It is erroneously assumed that university students are the elite and so don’t experience hunger.
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Students suffer the double burden of malnutrition - hunger and obesity. This results in stress, ill health, poor academic results and increased drop-out rates.
Farm land near Holly Bluff, Miss., covered with backwater flooding, May 23, 2019.
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As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns, yields of some crops are increasing while others decline. The net result: less food, especially where it’s most needed.
Children play in a cabbage patch near their home in Modderspruit, near Rustenburg, South Africa.
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The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
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When the policies and programmes developed in Belo Horizonte were rolled out nationally, Brazil experienced a notable decline in hunger.
Syrian refugee families in Gazza village, in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon, January 30 2019.
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
Giving food that would otherwise go to landfill to hungry people does little to ensure the well-being of Canadians who are food insecure.
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Reducing food waste by feeding hungry Canadians is a simplistic solution that is deeply problematic and morally distressing.
Children are growing up hungry across Britain.
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British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
Assembling backpacks of food for students to take home in Flint, Mich.
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Backpack programs that give students easily prepared foods, like boxed macaroni and cheese and canned beans, can make a difference.
People use SNAP benefits to buy food.
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Even without any disruption, SNAP benefits tend to run out before the next disbursement arrives.