| 1. | Bread for the World | | | Bread for the World stands in a long biblical and prophetic tradition of those who speak out boldly in defense of people who are poor, hungry and consigned to the margins of society. People of faith and conscience have long engaged in the struggle for a more just world. They have fought for the abolition of slavery, for an end to nuclear proliferation and for the respect of human dignity and freedom.
www.bread.org |
| 2. | Vegfam | | | Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals.
www.veganvillage.co.uk |
| 3. | FRAC - Consequences of Hunger | | | Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality.
www.frac.org |
| 5. | Still Hungry | | | Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry.
www.zmag.org |
| 6. | 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.
www.netnomad.com |
| 7. | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy | | | Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center and non-profit think tank focusing on issues of hunger, food, poverty, agriculture, trade, and rural development, guided by the principle that food is a fundamental human right.
www.foodfirst.org |
| 8. | Fidel Castro Speech | | | The Cuban president presents appalling statistics on the hunger of children and other issues at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998.
www.ldb.org |
| 9. | Action Against Hunger - USA | | | An international organization and recognized leader in combating hunger. Delivers emergency aid and longer-term assistance to people suffering from natural disaster or man-made crisis.
www.aah-usa.org |
| 10. | Food Dumping (or Aid) Maintains Poverty | | | This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at the disastrous effects of food aid to developing countries in non-emergency situations. Additional links, articles and research are provided, including links to other sections on the site that look at hunger with respect to population sizes and claims that genetically engineered food would solve world hunger.
www.globalissues.org |
| 11. | 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.
www.rehydrate.org |
| 13. | Congressional Hunger Center | | | A non-profit anti-hunger leadership training and a bi-partisan organization, serves as a center where the anti-hunger community can discuss creative solutions to end domestic and international hunger, located in Washington, DC.
www.hungercenter.org |
| 14. | HungerBanquet.org | | | Learn about hunger from the point of view of those who experience it every day. HungerBanquet.org is part of Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest campaign, which raises awareness and funds to fight poverty world hunger.
www.hungerbanquet.org |
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