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- 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
- 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
- Comida: An Experience in Famine - Essay by Frank Norris, published 1899.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/NorComi.html
- 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.ghn.org/chc
- Environmental Literacy Council: Food and Hunger - Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants.
www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/6.html
- 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/castro.htm
- Food Aid: Exploring its Role - Canadian government report that evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of Food Aid.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9403.htm
- 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/TradeRelated/Poverty/FoodDumping.asp
- 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
- Food Security: A Right to Access - A study that looks at the access to basic needs such as food in developing countries.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9404.htm
- 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.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9705.htm
- FRAC - Consequences of Hunger - Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality.
www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/health.html
- 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/facts/hunger.htm
- 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.
www.hopemag.com/issues/11-12-98/ed-n-d98.htm
- Lacey Food Bank Program - This site describes one New Jersey community's attempt to help the hungry as well as to specify ways the entire community can be involved.
www.laceyfoodbank.org
- National Association of WIC Directors - Organization of directors of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs, a major provider of food assistance to the poor.
www.wicdirectors.org
- 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
- 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.
action.org/index.html
- 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/zmag/articles/jan97bacon.htm
- 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.
www.netnomad.com/foodscamx.html
- The Hunger Site - An ad-driven "charity" site (notably a dot com, not dot org) devoted to alleviating hunger. Site owners ask you to hit this site once a day to donate food to starving countries.
www.thehungersite.com
- 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."
www.unicef.org/sowc98
- Vegetarianism against world hunger - Very short piece showing how eating less meat helps to end starvation.
123easy.com/vssj/world-hunger.html
- Vegfam - Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals.
www.veganvillage.co.uk/vegfam
- World Hunger Resource Center (WHRC) - A comprehensive respository of resources dedicated to ending World Hunger!
www.garvinweb.com/whrc
- 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.
www.plattsburgh.edu/robbinrh/legacy/hunger_readings.htm
- World Hunger Notes - An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger Education Service
www.worldhunger.org
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