Nigeria: Owning Up to Food Insecurity in the North This is an excerpt from an article that was originally published on allAfrica.com on June 28, 2012. "UNICEF runs the bulk of the OTP sites in Nigeria, and provides the nutrition-rich Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) central to the CMAM...
Much like MANA, The Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti focuses on mothers' participation in the health of their children. The CNP utilizes the Hearth Program, a low-cost nutritional model designed to rehabilitate moderately to severely malnourished children. The program is based on "positive deviance," wherein...
Sahel hunger crisis risks being another example of too little, too late The Guardian, Poverty Matters Blog, June 2012 Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images "She also expressed frustration at the inability of the world to react until the "CNN effect" – pictures of starving children on TV – kicks in." Read...
Hillary Clinton speaks at Child Survival Call to Action Image via Georgetown University "We are all here today with one vision - to make sure every child everywhere lives to see his or her 5th birthday, to eliminate preventable child death in a generation," said Secretary of...
SHOUHARDO: a big acronym with an even bigger meaning. It means "Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities," and to families in Bangladesh, it means a remarkable decrease in the number of children whose growth is stunted due to malnutrition. The program, implemented by...
Josette Sheeran, former head of the UN's World Food Program, outlines her vision of ending worldwide hunger. She believes strongly in establishing school feeding programs, connecting small farmers to markets, empowering women, and developing resiliency in vulnerable communities. Sheeran explains, "I think we can, in our...
Hunger stalks Africa's young Associated Press, May 26 "'I start a fire, put a pot of water on it and tell the children I am in the middle of preparing something," Maryam Sy, 37 and a mother of nine, says in a raspy voice. "In reality, I...
While the white sands of Madagascar's Toamasina beaches may create a traveler's oasis, ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency) has created a refuge for local children dying from SAM. ADRACRENI (Center for Intensive Recuperation & Nutritional Education) receives an average of three children suffering from SAM...
CARE lawyer: Niger felt like 'Hunger Games' on steroids Moni Basu, CNN, May 13 "Alexander has seen poverty before -- in 1989, he helped found Hands on Atlanta, which grew to become one of the world's largest community based volunteer organizations with more than half a million...
President Obama, G8 and African leaders, businesses, international organizations, and civil society will come together today at the G8 Summit to begin a four day discussion on the advancement of global agricultural development, food, and nutrition security in Africa. President Obama is expected to announce...
A mother feeds her child MANA RUTF in Rwaza, Rwanda. Photograph: Silent Images ...
A severely malnourished child is fed a ready-to-use-therapeutic food by his mother. ACF-Nigeria, E.A. Menafudi Action Against Hunger | ACF International, a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, accurately assessed Nigeria as a "land of significant dichotomy." The country boasts the second largest economy in Africa,...