Food Day also reminds us that even here, in the world's richest nation, about one in seven households suffer food insecurity, meaning that the family's diet is impaired or limited in some way, with even higher rates in households with children.
Mark Hanlon | Posted 12.19.2011
The good -- but frustrating -- news is that the world produces enough food to feed everyone. Food security is achievable, but it isn't automatic.
Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 12.18.2011
Sunday was World Food Day and for many parents, our daily food challenge might be more on the order of getting our little ones to eat broccoli. I've found some simple strategies that help raise awareness about the world and also can nurture more adventurous eaters.
Enid Borden | Posted 12.17.2011
I always thought it was true, but it is appalling to see it for oneself. In my hands were two grocery items - one snack-sized cream filled yellow ca...
Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 12.16.2011
India is in the process of enacting a food security act to provide food for nearly 70 percent of the population, specifically targeting the poor, who are often not counted in state surveys and who are denied many benefits.
Mark Moore | Posted 12.16.2011
If you think of peanuts as just something to eat at ball games or as the essential ingredient in a peanut-butter-and jelly sandwich, you are seriously underestimating Arachis hypogaea.
Caty Borum Chattoo | Posted 12.13.2011
Sunday, October 16, is World Food Day: famine is not is simply caused by a lack of food in the global supply. We must -- and can -- do better.
The MDG Advocates | Posted 05.25.2011
Africa Must Feed Itself BY DR. AKIN ADESINA, DR. WANGARI MAATHAI AND DR. GRAÇA MACHEL Africa is rising. The 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governan...
Tom Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, on World Food Day -- I want to call your attention to the needs of many millions of children around the world. In countries suffering from absolute poverty, chronic hunger is a deadly threat to children.
Posted 05.25.2011
Each year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations commemorates World Food Day. In 2010, the theme is "United Against Hunge...
Robert Walker | Posted 05.25.2011
A decade ago, World Food Day was a time to celebrate the progress we were making in reducing global hunger. No longer. Today, World Food Day is a time to get angry, ring alarm bells, and take action.
Charles MacCormack | Posted 05.25.2011
Food price protests have at times shined a spotlight on the plight of the urban poor, which is real and must be addressed. But the world must also address the plight of rural poor, even if it's less likely to make headlines.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011
These commemorative occasions have little to do with cooking and everything to do with the humanitarian game changers who are working to find solutions to the world's hunger problem.
Ramya Raghavan | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
For many Americans, every day is "Food Day." Yet, there are millions in America for whom providing meals for their family is a daily struggle. World F...
Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. State Department released a video narrated by Matt Damon in late September to YouTube, describing the world food crisis and how global climat...
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 05.25.2011
On this World Food Day more than one billion people are suffering from malnutrition and hunger, an increase of 100 million in just over a year.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 12.24.2011