Our Common Interest: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition | The 2011 Hunger Report
2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition. For the United States, it is a time of renewing our commitment to this objective and strengthening...
View ArticleBetter Foreign Assistance, Fewer Hungry People
Background Paper Produced by Bread for the World Institute No. 215 June 2011 Better, more effective U.S. poverty-focused development assistance is critical to reducing hunger and poverty around the...
View ArticleRebalancing Act: Updating U.S. Food and Farm Policies | The 2012 Hunger Report
The 2012 Hunger Report calls for changes in U.S. food and farm policies to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The national nutrition programs should do more to ensure that people in poverty have...
View ArticleMaking Development Assistance Work Better
In 2005, through the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the international community accepted ambitious commitments to improve the impact of development assistance. Today, important questions...
View ArticleImproving Food Aid to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition
The United States is the world’s largest provider of food aid products — procured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)...
View ArticleEnabling and Equipping Women to Improve Nutrition
Malnutrition during the 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s second birthday has irreversible physical, cognitive, and health consequences, reducing a person’s lifetime earning potential. For...
View ArticleImplementing Nutrition-Sensitive Development: Reaching Consensus
The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is an unprecedented, multi-stakeholder global effort to improve maternal and child nutrition. Both the 2008 Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition...
View ArticleWithin Reach: Global Development Goals | The 2013 Hunger Report
The 2013 Hunger Report focuses on the final push to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 deadline, and proposes a new set of global development goals to eliminate hunger and...
View ArticleInmigración, hambre y oportunidad Pan para el Mundo y la reforma migratoria
Pan para el Mundo vé el progreso global contra la pobreza como un gran éxodo del hambre. Nosotros sabemos que la migración internacional frecuentemente es parte de este éxodo — en la medida en que las...
View ArticleA Global Development Agenda: Toward 2015 and Beyond
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) endorsed by 189 countries in 2000 are an unprecedented global effort to achieve development goals that are identified collectively, achievable, and measurable....
View ArticleEnding Hunger in America | The 2014 Hunger Report
The 2014 Hunger Report proposes bold steps to end hunger in the United States by 2030. Hunger remains a problem in this wealthy country. About one in seven American households is not always sure where...
View ArticleHarmonizing Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation Across U.S. Government Agencies
Addressing the high burden of undernutrition in developing countries through multisectoral, evidence-based approaches is increasingly recognised as a top global priority. 2013 resulted in the...
View ArticleLearning from U.S. Nutrition Investments in Tanzania: Progress and Partnerships
A wide range of projects are currently being funded in Tanzania to improve nutrition outcomes, guided by the government’s National Nutrition Strategy. Steps are being taken to strengthen internal...
View ArticleBread for the World Applauds Senate Vote on Emergency Unemployment
Washington, D.C. – This morning the Senate took a major step in reinstating emergency unemployment benefits for 1.3 million unemployed workers. The Senate voted to consider S. 1845, the Emergency...
View ArticleEnding Child Hunger in the United States
In 2013, 15.8 million U.S. children were at risk of hunger. For children, even brief periods of hunger carry consequences that may last a lifetime. Many children suffer from nutritional deficiencies,...
View ArticleWhen Women Flourish … We Can End Hunger | The 2015 Hunger Report
The Hunger Report identifies the empowerment of women and girls as essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the United States. Women face barriers that...
View ArticleCongress Managed to Help Poor and Hungry People Despite Brinksmanship
Washington, D.C. – The 113th Congress concluded its term yesterday, a term that experienced hyper-partisanship and a government shutdown. Despite the political hurdles and low approval rating this...
View ArticlePresident Obama Commits to Investing in Families
In his penultimate state of the union address, President Obama stressed the importance of tax credits for working families, fair wages, eliminating the gender gap, and making childcare affordable. “The...
View ArticleBread for the World Launches Campaign to Reauthorize Child Nutrition Programs
Bread for the World launched its 2015 Offering of Letters: Feed Our Children campaign today, urging Congress to strengthen national child nutrition programs when the law governing them comes up for...
View ArticlePresident’s Budget Proposes Investments in Human Capital
President Obama released his budget on Monday, which includes proposals for making the 2009 earned income tax credit (EITC) and child tax credit (CTC) improvements permanent, and reforming U.S. food...
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