WASHINGTON - This year the number of poor people around the world struggling to get enough food for survival for themselves and their families has ris...
For a world of unprecedented hunger where more than one in seven of us now go without the food we need...
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?
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.
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.
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.
If you are walking near Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and happen upon a crystal snowflake hovering overhead, please take a moment to consider why it is there.
A USDA report released Monday found the highest rate of food insecurity in 13 years. Almost one in six American households, or 17 million households, are food insecure.
Bed-Stuy Farm, once a garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year. Now, though, the project is threatened by development.
Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book should be of particular concern to anyone familiar with Millennium Development Goal number five: reducing maternal mortality.
Today's digital-media-enabled contests, perhaps even the most familiar reality-TV, American Idol-type kind, are popular because they promise a rags-to-riches success for at least one contestant.
In 2009, my wife and I made our decision to donate our income to the cause of fighting extreme global poverty. We'd like to invite you to do some of the same.
There's a lot of soul-searching going on among designers. Many have begun to grapple with the question: What is the role for design in a world that is no longer quite as "fabulous" as it once was?
I think I want to go into the porn industry. They make over $14 billion a year, and just one percent of those annual earnings could help feed three million people. Not a bad deal, right?
The symptoms of catastrophe are unmistakable, and the diagnosis is clear: we are in a race against time with the forces of the natural world.
For 30 years on this day, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has organized World Food Day, to help bring awareness of global hunger and ...
In Rwanda and across Africa, the Millennium Villages project has demonstrated that food scarcity can be all but vanquished if the required resource management, investment and political will are available.
Where is our collective panic about climate change? Our energy consumptive lifestyles do not blink in the quake of devastating floods, receding glaciers and starving children.
By Ken Hackett Last month saw the passing of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution that lifted millions of people out of hunger through ...
Last week, we announced that YouTube serves over one billion video views per day. That's also the number of people in the world who don't have enough food to eat: one in seven humans.
To watch the world's leaders meet in at this year's G20, G8 and EU, AU and other regional forums, has been to witness a great neglect of people who su...
