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Global Food Policy Report recommends policies to reverse rising global rates of undernutrition

Global Food Policy Report Unveils Strategy for Reducing Hunger with Global Governance, Investment, and Trade

IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report recommends international cooperation, governance, and trade to eliminate rising global hunger, undernourishment, and poverty.

Creating a norm: emerging leaders argue their inclusion will solve the food system.

New Leadership May Solve Old Problems in Our Food System: Interview with Vanessa Garcia Polanco

Vanessa Garcia Polanco grabbed a seat at the table—how other emerging leaders can claim one to make their visions of the food system into reality.

M.J. Altman, Editorial Director at World Food Program USA, has ideas for reducing hunger and food waste around the world.

M.J. Altman Is “Endlessly Fascinated” by New Innovations

M.J. Altman, Editorial Director at World Food Program USA, talks about her background, her work, and her vision for reducing hunger and food waste around the globe.

Kevin Mullins of Food Rescue US explains food waste and food insecurity and how new technology can help.

Using Technology to Bring Excess Food to the Hungry

An interview with Kevin Mullins, co-founder of Food Rescue US, discusses the root of food waste and hunger in America. Mullins tells how creative and simple technology may provide solutions.

Family farmers may be the new key leaders in accomplishing U.N. Sustainable Development Goals with the new Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028

The U.N. Aims to Unite Efforts for the Decade of Family Farmers

The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution aiming to ignite international efforts to support family farmers and their roles in developing hunger and poverty solutions.

Buenos Aires’ Museo del Hambre works to make hunger permanently a part of the past.

This Human Rights Attorney Believes Hunger Belongs Only in a Museum

Marcos Ezequiel Filardi founded Buenos Aires’ Museo del Hambre with hope that hunger will one day be found only in a museum.

The holidays are a time of celebrating food and abundance, but it’s also a time of tremendous food waste. Fortunately, there are simple ways to avoid waste.

The Ghosts of Feasts Past: How to Reduce Food Waste

Americans waste more than 165 million kilograms (364 million pounds) of food every day but two-thirds of residential food waste in the United States is edible. Meanwhile, 1 in 8 people in the U.S. do not have regular access to food.

India’s National Food Security Act (NFSA) is an effective way to provide basic food rations to the majority of Indians who struggle to feed their families.

India’s Public Stockholding: “Much more than a welfare program”

India’s food security and stockholding program uses precisely the same policies that the U.S. used in its early farm policy coming out of the Great Depression. Exactly the same: price supports, food reserves, administered markets, subsidies. The U.S. government used them because they work. India and

A new report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reveals a surge in hunger in sub-Saharan Africa due to conflict and climate change.

Conflict and Climate Change are Driving Hunger Crisis

A new report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reveals the link between conflict and food insecurity and identifies pathways to help build resilience against conflict and contribute to sustaining peace.

Food Tank is highlighting 15 organizations around the U.S. fighting food waste and food insecurity through gleaning.

15 Gleaning Initiatives Fighting Food Waste

With 133 billion pounds of food ending up in landfills, gleaning organizations across the country are working with farmers to help fight food waste and food insecurity.