World Hunger and Poverty

Canada came up with a great way to help fight world hunger this Halloween. Read the press release published on newswire.ca:
From coast to coast, youth will be trick-or-treating for non-perishable foods instead of candy through Free The Children’s Halloween for Hunger campaign. This annual campaign challenges young people to think locally and act globally in […]

The following discussion are currently taking place in The Hunger and Poverty Forums:
Who do you want to see run in ‘08 and WHY?
You earned it. It’s yours.
Bush’s impeachable offenses.
Feeding the hungry is not the solution.
Effects of Forcing Western Thought on Others
Cost to End Hunger
What I can I do as a kid?
When is this country going […]

Imagine sitting down to talk with eight mullahs in a village in central Afghanistan, meeting with people in the war-torn Gulu district in Uganda, or attending a town meeting of displaced persons in Colombia. How do people such as these, on the receiving end of international assistance, perceive humanitarian action in their respective countries? Is […]

In a recent article that I wrote I point out the serious and major problems facing our society and that we need radical change, both politically and socially. I then briefly run through the method to make that change. The called the article, Radical Change. Here’s a few relevant excerpts:
In the United States alone, 14 […]

DJ BOBO, the internationally renowned Swiss artist and winner of around ten World Music Awards, today takes up his appointment as National Ambassador Against Hunger for WFP.
WFP is currently feeding six million people in Ethiopia, including 670,000 children thanks to its school feeding programmes.
Education remains the best way of escaping the vicious circle of poverty, […]

Marc Haron juxtaposes war statistics in his new article, All I See Are Dead People. He compares the tragic Iraq war, which, so far, has led to over 30,000 or 650,000 Iraqi deaths, depending on how one counts. In fact, Haron doesn’t mention it, but more Americans have died in the Iraq war than 9/11. […]

By Thalif Deen - Inter Press Service
United Nations (IPS): Since hunger and famine are still widespread in parts of Africa and Asia, the international community is in violation of the right to food as a basic universal human right, according to a new study released by the United Nations.
“Despite promises to eradicate hunger, there has […]

In a world such as ours where there is enough food to feed everybody, I find it extremely inappropriate and shameful for anyone to go hungry. Yet, this happens! Even worse, you know something’s terribly wrong with the social structure when the people who produce the food suffer from that preventable hunger.
It gets even worse! […]

The UN says that a 40 billion dollar increase in funding could feed, clothe and educate the entire world. Yet, the United States government spends 400 billion dollars a year on “defense” and spent over $310 billion extra so far on the Iraqi war. While almost half the world lives on less than $2.00 a […]

Good rainfall in recent months has boosted harvests in arid Niger and reduced the risk of more hunger for a population that has long been vulnerable to food shortages, local authorities said.
According to the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP), about 70 percent of Niger’s 13 million people live below the poverty line and 3.8 […]