The film shows that hunger, for children and people as a whole, is a problem that America has solved in the past and can solve again if average Americans demand it. A Place at the Table shows us that it's easier than we think.
It is startling to think that more than 16 million American children struggled with hunger in 2011. That is a shockingly embarrassing figure to a nation that calls itself the breadbasket to the world, and a situation that should be unacceptable.
Today, some 1 billion people are still undernourished and many countries are far from achieving the first millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people living in hunger and extreme poverty by 2015.
About one billion people in the world face hunger or undernourishment. To put it in perspective, that's more people than the total populations of the ...
The world's top hunger-fighting nonprofit has appointed a new CEO -- a former food industry titan from Coca-Cola and Ben and Jerry's.
Heifer Internat...