Resources Tagged: Hunger

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  1. Ending Hunger

    Key Resource 1985-01-01 Not too long ago, only poets and dreamers imagined a world without hunger and starvation. Today, the worlds expert community--scientists, agricultural specialists, development professionals, working with governments, the UN and private voluntary organizations--is united in its declaration that...
    Hunger Project Hunger Food relief

  2. Millions Fed Proven Successes in Agricultural Development

    2009-01-20 Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of meeting future food needs remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the global food and agricultural systems. In the late...
    Food Policy Hunger

  3. FAO - Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security

    It is widely accepted that by 2050 the world will host 9 billion people. To accomodate this number, current food production will need to almost double. Land is scarce and expanding the area devoted to farming is rarely a viable or sustainable option. Oceans are overfished and climate change and...
    Hunger Food Security Feed Security FAO Insects Edible Insects

  4. Risk Aversion vs Hunger and Exhaustion

    2013-10-20 This article challenges the long-held assumption that smallholder farmers are risk averse and delay land preparation and planting until they are assured of adequate rainfall, and that they inefficiently used the natural resources available to them. The author proposes that farming operations are...
    Economic Development Smallholder Farm Family Farm Rural Development Hunger Risk Aversion Risk Management Agricultural Devel...

  5. Food strategies for tomorrow

    1987-01-01 The Hunger Project's work is focused on creating the end of persistence of hunger. In this booklet Susan George explains why it is important for Europe to establish a different and orginal relationship to help the 3rd world overcome malnutrition, chronic hunger, and outright famine.
    Hunger Hunger Project

  6. Roots of Hope: Miss-a-Meal Meditations

    1979-01-01 Roots of Hope, written by a wide variety of Southern Baptist pastors, leaders, academics and laypeople is designed to help Christians learn to listen to our hunger world.The book is intended to be used as the focus of a weekly miss-a-meal discipline in which time saved is used to pray and...
    World Hunger Staff Book Hunger Devotional Literature

  7. Food Security Assessment

    Food aid has been and continues to be an important tool for the international community to fight hunger in low-income countries, and the US is the dominant food-donor country. However, the effectiveness of food aid could be improved by increased coordination between donor groups, more transparent...
    Food Aid Resources Food Security Hunger Food Supply Nutrition Nutrition Surveys

  8. Hunger Action Handbook

    1987-01-01 This book describes the simplest, most effective ways to address hunger in your community, your counry and around the world. Proven, time-tested ideas - how to start a soup kitchen or night shelter, volunteer overseas, raise money, influence local, state and federal government policies and many...
    Citizen Participation Food relief Food Security Ethics Hunger

  9. FAO Agroecology Knowledge Hub Overview

    The global food system is at a crossroads. Agriculture must meet the challenges of hunger and malnutrition – against a backdrop of population growth, increased pressure on natural resources including soils and water, the loss of biodiversity, and the uncertainties associated with climate change....
    Environmental resp... Food Systems Sustainable Food S... Natural Resource M... Malnutrition Hunger FAO Agroecology

  10. Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World

    Every fifteen minutes a jumbo jet filled with children crashes, leaving no survivors. The jet is actually hunger, but the haunting image is real--33,000 children dead each day. What is even more haunting is that the deaths are unnecessary because the world has long had the technology and...
    Agriculture and State Hunger