Surf these sites: Bread for the World -- A Christian citizens'' anti-hunger movement in the U.S. which focuses on education about hunger and on influencing public policies on hunger and poverty. Coalition on Human Needs: Food and Nutrition Issues -- Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on the food and nutrition issues from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations. FRAC - Consequences of Hunger -- Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality. Fidel Castro''s Speech to the UN about World Poverty -- "... each year, 12 million children under five years of age die.... Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet..." Food Aid: Exploring its Role -- Canadian government report that evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of Food Aid. Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) -- National anti-hunger organization that lobbies on behalf of Food Stamps, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program, and other federal food and nutrition programs. Food Security: A Right to Access -- A study that looks at the access to basic needs such as food in developing countries. Food Security: From Global to Universal -- A paper that evaluates the concept of food security in the context of both the developed and developing world. Food and Hunger -- Environmental Literacy Council argues that food and hunger problems will not be solved by big agribusinesses whose profits come from pesticides and engineered plants. Hunger: Myths and realities -- Myth One: There is not enough food and not enough land. Untrue: Measured globally, there is enough to feed everyone. For example there is enough grain being produced today to provide everybody in the world with enough protein and about 3000 calories a day, which is what the average American consumes. Is it sustainable to spend this much on lipstick and pet food? -- Hope Magazine suggests from U.N. world data that what people in U.S. spend on cosmetics and pets could more than feed the whole world. NomadNet -- A collection of unorthodox views on aid and relief operations: Many articles suggest charities are partially to blame for hunger in Africa becasue they ignore evidence about hunger in order to fatten their coffers. RESULTS: Ending hunger and poverty -- Nonprofit, grassroots citizens''s lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power. Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development -- Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger. Still Hungry -- Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry. The Food-Aid Racket -- from Harper''s Magazine, August, 1993. By Michael Maren. Read this before you start browsing sites maintained by relief and development organizations. The Hunger Site -- Make free donations of food to give to feed hungry people while viewing a world hunger map. UNICEF: The State of the World''s Children 1998 -- "Malnutrition is largely a silent and invisible emergency, exacting a terrible toll on children and their families. The result of multiple causes, including a lack of food, common and preventable infections, inadequate care and unsafe water, it plays a role in more than half of the nearly 12 million deaths each year of children under five in developing countries, a proportion unmatched since the Black Death ravaged Europe in the 14th century." VegFam -- The vegan charity, working to prevent famine without cruelty Vegetarianism against world hunger -- Very short piece showing how eating less meat helps to end starvation. Voxcap.com - Hunger -- Links dealing with how to fight hunger. World Hunger Notes -- An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger Education Service World Hunger Resource Center (WHRC) -- A comprehensive respository of resources dedicated to ending World Hunger!
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