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...
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.
If the world learned to feed itself half a century ago, why are there now more hungry people than ever before?
It is clear to the experts that the current generation of GMOs do not live up to the hype continuously broadcast by biotech companies and their promotional East Coast wing--the federal government.
To imagine Bob Dylan is out of touch with the symbolic value of making a Christmas album--as hilarious a sign as it is--is just underestimating him.
Ashton Kutcher,'s Twitter feat -- and his new outfit, Katalyst Media -- raise a central question in today's world of media: who controls media's future?
Absent from the Global Harvest Initiative was an honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture to play a leading role in actually feeding people.
A hungry world is a dangerous world. And the world is hungry right now. Let's not wait for more riots to erupt and people to die to realize that we are losing a generation to hunger.
Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.
Norm Borlaug's life is both a symbol of what can be done, and a reminder of the enormous problem of global poverty we still face. Why not finish his work?
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