Enhancing Equity in the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program
Summary: Increasing people’s access to healthy food is key to ending hunger and poor nutrition. The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) works to boost nutrition through two grant...
View ArticleRacially Equitable Responses to Hunger During COVID-19 and Beyond
New Report: Since the pandemic began, Latino/a and Black households are twice as likely to report being food insecure as white households. By Marlysa D. Gamblin and Kathleen King The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce child hunger
Expanding the CTC would do more to reduce hunger and poverty among our nation’s children than any single policy has in decades. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes a one-year expansion of...
View ArticleBlack History, the Root Causes of Hunger, and Reparatory Justice
“Do good, seek justice.” Jeremiah 1:17 Black History Month 2023 invites a timely reflection on how we repair the historic root causes of hunger in communities in Africa and in communities elsewhere in...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SNAP
SNAP is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the first line of...
View ArticleRacially Equitable Responses to Hunger During COVID-19 and Beyond
New Report: Since the pandemic began, Latino/a and Black households are twice as likely to report being food insecure as white households. By Marlysa D. Gamblin and Kathleen King The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleA Year Later: Regaining momentum
By Michele Learner March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and on March 8, the world observed International Women’s Day. First and foremost, gender equity is a critical component of...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce child hunger
Expanding the CTC would do more to reduce hunger and poverty among our nation’s children than any single policy has in decades. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes a one-year expansion of...
View ArticleBlack History, the Root Causes of Hunger, and Reparatory Justice
“Do good, seek justice.” Jeremiah 1:17 Black History Month 2023 invites a timely reflection on how we repair the historic root causes of hunger in communities in Africa and in communities elsewhere in...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SNAP
SNAP is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the first line of...
View ArticleA Year Later: Regaining momentum
By Michele Learner March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and on March 8, the world observed International Women’s Day. First and foremost, gender equity is a critical component of...
View ArticleSummer EBT Is Now Permanent
You may have seen the message on a billboard: “Hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation.” On average, children are in school about 180 days a year, roughly half the year. This means that kids and teens...
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....
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