Giving a Little, Gaining A LOT! Feeding Your Spirit This Holiday Season

Toan Lam, 12.25.2009

Founder of www.GoInspireGo.com

Amidst the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, wrapping gifts and preparing dinners, please stop for a minute and take a deep breath and ask yourself: What can I do?

Cultivating a Passion for Agriculture

Danielle Nierenberg, 12.16.2009

In Mukono District, about an hour outside of Kampala, Uganda, agriculture used to be considered a "punishment" for young people at school if they didn't behave.

Hunger, Learning and Making Mistakes...

Sebastian Siegel, 12.15.2009

Actor, poet, lover of life

I'm hungry, hungry for life, hungry to feel, hungry to do. It just feels right. If you look at your hands, these hands, they were meant to DO things with - to work, to play, to struggle, to fight for it, to care.

Invictus Kicks Off New Campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Linda Milazzo, 12.14.2009

Writer/Educator/Activist

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. It's assailed for being shallow and rarely acknowledged for its good heart. But Los Angeles has a huge heart - at the center of which is pulsating non-stop activism.

In Good Taste: Donating to Those in Need

Tamar Abrams, 12.10.2009

Tamar Abrams is a strategic communications consultant based in Arlington, VA.

At this holiday season, even one in which money is tight for most of us, many Americans are generous in giving to those in greatest need. Donations to...

Music, Hunger and Phoebe

Martin Cruz, 12.09.2009

Filmmaker and founder of Music vs Hunger

My inspiration for using music to feed the hungry came from a 5-year-old girl from San Francisco who asked a very loving question: "What can we do to help?"

Obama's Chance to Fix Food Aid

Elizabeth Sepper, 12.09.2009

Fellow, NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

The world's one billion hungry cannot afford to wait. This week, their needs -- not those of donor countries -- should be at the heart of discussions at the Food Aid Committee.

Breeding Vegetables with Farmers in Mind

Danielle Nierenberg, 12.08.2009

As hunger and drought spread across Africa , there's a huge focus on increasing yields of staple crops, such as maize, wheat, cassava, and rice.

Rotary Addresses Root Causes of Conflict and War

Jim Luce, 12.09.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

As the world recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Rotary International - a humanitaria...

Turning Food Deserts Into Jobs Oases

Joel Berg, 12.08.2009

This holiday season we note the sobering reality that more than 49 million Americans live in households that can't afford enough food. Locally, accord...

World Hunger Requires Research, Not Rancor

Allen S. Levine, 12.08.2009

While many Americans are worrying about not gaining weight during the holiday season, one-sixth of our planet's population is in danger of malnutrition, not obesity.

Obama and Governors Must Lead on Hunger Crisis

Billy Shore, 12.07.2009

America does not lack food nor do we lack public food and nutrition programs. Kids who are hungry in America are hungry because they lack access to such programs. That is a solvable problem.

A Case For Eating Your Vegetables

Bernard Pollack, 12.11.2009

Expert on political campaigning and communications

When children, and their parents and teachers, grow vegetables it nourishes not only their bodies, but helps build culinary and cultural traditions that will last a lifetime.

Struggling For The Soul Of Religion: Why The Parliament Of The World's Religions Matters

Paul Raushenbush, 12.04.2009

Religion Editor for Huffington Post, Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton

The underlying assumption of the Parliament is that religion can be a positive force for moral suasion of individuals and society by providing a vision of a better world and promoting necessary values.

Hunger in America: More Than Money is Needed

Anne Mai Bertelsen, 11.30.2009

Marketing strategist, columnist,activist

We need to revisit our food policy, which provides financial and in-kind food subsidies but does little to help Americans produce or stretch their food dollars.

United Nations Food Leader On Defeating Hunger

Joseph B. Treaster, 11.29.2009

Editor, 1H2O.org, Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami

This year the number of poor people around the world struggling to get enough food for survival for themselves and their families has risen to a little more than a billion -- the highest level in 30 years.

A Thanksgiving Hymn For 2009

Frances Moore Lappe, 11.26.2009

Author, Diet for a Small Planet. Her latest: Getting a Grip www.smallplanet.org

For a world of unprecedented hunger where more than one in seven of us now go without the food we need...

Thanksgiving: When There Is Humane Treatment for All

Bob Franken, 11.26.2009

Appears on MSNBC and is a member of SPJ Washington Hall of Fame

There is a special place in Hell for those who are cruel to animals. But what about those of us to neglect our own vulnerable young? Don't we have a moral obligation to them? Every day of the year?

Sharing the Privilege of Abundance

Arianna Huffington, 11.26.2009

The food, fuel, and financial crises have pushed the numbers of those enduring chronic hunger past one billion people for the first time in history. So as we enter the season of colossal Wall Street bonuses and a frenzy of holiday spending, it's time for us to share the privilege of plenty. It's time to declare, once and for all, that not a single child should die from hunger. This is an achievable goal. With $3.2 billion a year -- or $1.5 billion less than Americans spend on Halloween annually, and a fraction of America's $300 billion a year in private giving -- we can feed the 66 million children worldwide who go to school hungry. This alone won't end hunger, but it would be a huge step forward.

Serving Healthy Thanksgiving Plates, Not Just Full Ones

Mark Shriver, 11.25.2009

Vice President and Managing Director of U.S. Programs for Save the Children

Are America's children suffering from too much food or too little? They answer is: both. Children in low-income families are simply getting too little of the right foods and too much of the wrong foods.

Let's Get Serious About America's Hunger Crisis

Gordon Campbell, 11.24.2009

President and CEO of United Way of NYC

Forty-nine million Americans do not have dependable access to adequate food. That's nearly 15 percent who struggle to get enough to eat, up from 11 percent a year earlier.