Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Issues > Poverty > Hunger New! Submit a site   Categories: Causes (0) Regional (13) Free Donations *(9) Research (4) Indexes and Directories (2) Solutions (13) Politics (2)       whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   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.   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.   FRAC - Consequences of Hunger - Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child development, education, and infant mortality.   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.   Food Aid: Exploring its Role - Canadian government report that evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of Food Aid.   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.   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.   Food Security: A Right to Access - A study that looks at the access to basic needs such as food in developing countries.   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.   Food and Hunger - Environmental Literacy Council argues that food and hunger problems will not be solved by big agribusinesses whose profits come from pesticides and engineered plants.   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.   Might As Well Face It, We're Addicted to Stuff - Hope Magazine, November 1998 editorial on materialism and money.   National Association of WIC Directors - Organization of directors of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs, a major provider of food assistance to the poor.   NomadNet - A collection of articles and essays about the negative effects of relief aid, with a special focus on Sudan and Somalia.   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.   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.   Still Hungry - Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more children than ever going hungry.   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.   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.   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."     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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