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26 Million Removed From Hunger Roles in a Year

According to a recent UN report, the number of hungry people in the world has now fallen to roughly 1 in 8— 26 million...
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Olympic Heroes Join British Prime Minister for Hunger Talks

Britain's double Olympic gold hero Mo Farah on Sunday helped launch a "hunger summit" with other athletes aimed at tackling malnutrition worldwide, held at...
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Superhero Art Tour for Real-World Famine Relief

A new national art exhibit launched by DC Entertainment will shine a light on the company's efforts to raise awareness and money for the...
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Jeff Bridges Leads New Hungry Kids Campaign to End U.S. Childhood Hunger

Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges came to Washington, D.C. yesterday to roll out a new campaign as national spokesperson for the No Kid...

UN Finds Global Hunger Easing in 2010

The number of people in the world suffering chronic malnutrition fell for the first time in 15 years  -- down 9.3 percent in 2010,...
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Good News on the Hunger Front

There is some good news when it comes to the battle against global hunger. The United Nations today lowered its estimate of the number...
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Ghana’s Incredible Path Out of Hunger and Poverty

Ghana is on track to be the first country in Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for halving poverty and hunger by 2015. Between...
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More than 100 Million of the World’s Poorest Have Received Microloan

More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set ten years earlier, according to...
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European Professional Football Against Hunger

The European Professional Football Leagues joined the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this week to launch a campaign to raise funds and awareness for...
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Drew Barrymore Donates $1 Million To UN Anti-Hunger Plans

American actress Drew Barrymore announced that she would donate $1 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to help the agency feed...

Kids Against Hunger Stems Starvation for 20 Million

Kids who volunteer with Kids Against Hunger learn that no matter how young they may be, they can make a difference. They help to...
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Third Graders Helping to Stop Childhood Hunger

Baking cookies and selling brownies don't seem like solutions that could end childhood hunger, yet, thanks to the Great American Bake Sale Campaign, 5.3...

Diners Pay What They Can Afford at One World Cafe

The owners of the all-natural One World Cafe in Salt Lake City have adopted a "pay what you can" philosophy doing their part to...
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Paraguay: Music against Hunger

Tomorrow a group of world-famous artists raise their voices in Paraguay's capital to draw attention to the world's hungry and raise money for food...
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Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time

Peacemaker is a new video game about the conflict in the Middle East that let's players assume the roles of either the Israeli prime...
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760,000 people in 118 countries Walk to Eradicate Hunger

Last Sunday, more than 760,000 people took to the streets of more than 100 countries to walk five kilometres in support of Fight Hunger:...

Clicks Against Breast Cancer, and Hunger, and Deforestation, and…

My friend Katharine sent me a message that the Breast Cancer Site was having trouble getting enough people to click on their site for...

Cotton Seeds May Soon Become a Game-Changing New Source of Food and Income

This doctor has developed an edible cotton seed – and it has just received approval for commercialization from the Department of Agriculture.

SuperMeat Promises Real Meat With No Harm To Any Animals

A group of researchers are crowdfunding a project to grow real chicken meat in a lab — instead of on a farm. Israeli-based “SuperMeat” say...

Chefs Turn Rescued Veggies into Soup for Cincinnati Schools, Homeless

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When grocery stores give you tons of cauliflower destined for the trash, you make soup to...