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The food aid supply chain relies on surplus.
Countries have used starvation as a war strategy for centuries, historically without being prosecuted. Three experts on hunger and humanitarian relief call for holding perpetrators accountable.
These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
Behavioral economics, long employed in grocery stores to guide customers to certain products, could be employed by food banks and pantries to encourage healthier choices.
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it, the U.N. World Food Program has received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
Civil society activists responding to the COVID-19 social crisis face important challenges and tensions. They should tackle these choices head-on as they develop longer-term plans.
Food is essential to survival. It is also essential to identity. During times of national crisis like the coronavirus pandemic and in the historical landscape, food issues become prominent.
Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
We can safely say goodbye to most single-use plastics. But they do have essential uses in some areas, such as for medical or scientific samples, or storing food for humanitarian aid.
Poor countries aren’t receiving the most foreign aid. Why? And what should be done?
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Environmental Chemist, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Digital Civics, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria and Co-ordinator of the South African SDG Hub, University of Pretoria
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Professor of History, University of Regina
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Researcher in Human Computer Interaction and Design, Newcastle University
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Research Associate in Computing Science, Newcastle University
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PhD candidate in the School of Government, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of International Law, Tufts University
