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This weekend, millions of people will flock to the theaters to see “The Hunger Games.” Millions more will suffer from hunger today.For all the hype that has been generated by and for this movie, have we put the same energy behind combating the reality of hunger in our world?Hunger is our world’s MOST SOLVABLE PROBLEM.Create [...]

The box office numbers for the movie are not in yet… but they are for  the Reality Game version called “Chicken a la carte”. Approximately a quarter of million people have watched a version of  a YouTube video  shows a forgotten portion of the society who live on what people throw away. Sometimes it is called “dumpster [...]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today introduced an Internet-based mapping tool that pinpoints the location of “food deserts” around the country and provides data on population characteristics of census tracts where residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious foods. Visit the online Food Desert Locator, developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service [...]

From the Orlando Sentinel - Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless, charged with violating an ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. The ordinance requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall. Arrest papers state that the three helped [...]

The drumbeat of early warnings of  historically high food prices leaning to  a major global crisis rooted might help put some perspective on the Lenten call for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Food price spikes are more than a blip on the Chicago Board of Trade. The ripple effects start small but quickly grow. Rising prices in [...]

The cost of feeding the hungry has risen to record levels according to the World Food Programme. The causes and the effects of the current high food prices are diverse. To help you get a grasp of what it all means, here are the answers to 10 key questions. There is also an excellent section [...]

The key to alleviating world hunger, poverty and combating climate change may lie in fresh, small-scale approaches to agriculture, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute. “If we shift just some of our attention away from production to consumption issues and reducing food waste, we might actually get quite a big bang for our buck, because [...]

Award winning documentary from Cultureunplugged, Chicken-a-la-Carte, has been viewed over 14 million times.  When you watch it you will see why. It gives new meaning to “alacarte”. Related FAMVIN Posts:Peanut Butter as a tool to end world hunger?US Bishop’s First Friday fast for the world’s malnourishedCelebrating religious life by collecting foodPope – “address underlying causes [...]

Are you one in a billion? On this World Food Day 2010 Oct. 16 there have never been so many hungry people in the world – 1 BILLION. The theme of this year’s observance is United against hunger. Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society organizations and the private sector work in [...]

THE ATLAS OF WORLD HUNGER by Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson represents a new look at hunger. The recurring message of the atlas is that despite the popular belief that hunger results from overpopulation, natural and manmade disasters, and ignorance of good nutrition, in reality it is inextricably tied to poverty and social vulnerability.