The impact of hunger in Africa Lack of access to nutritious food is truly devastating to children, families, and entire communities. Meet Fatuma, a displaced mother of two who lives in a displacement camp outside of Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu. …
Evaluate Emergency Needs In the wake of disaster, our Action Against Hunger emergency teams evaluate the needs of affected communities. These surveys help us understand what kind of intervention is needed most, including nutrition, health, water, mental …
Around the world, our 8,000+ aid workers help families in hard-to-reach communities facing hunger because of conflict, climate change, and more.
Through our research and innovation, we are developing better ways to anticipate, prevent, and treat malnutrition so that more children can lead healthy and productive lives and more communities can be free from hunger. Our approach marries science with …
Emergency Assistance When disasters destroy infrastructure and food supplies, when violence forces thousands to flee, or when drought disrupts food production, Action Against Hunger responds with food, cash, and other basic supplies to prevent hunger in …
Promote Hygiene to Prevent Disease To prevent disease outbreaks, our teams distribute hygiene kits and build latrines and handwashing stations in communities, schools, and health centers. We install water filters and teach healthy practices like …
Drawing from more than four decades of experience on the frontlines of the fight against hunger, we partner with country governments, humanitarian organizations, and other champions to promote evidence-based policies to effectively tackle hunger and its …
Detect and Treat Malnutrition Action Against Hunger pioneered some of the earliest formulas and approaches to treating malnourished children. Around the world, our teams work in health centers, on mobile teams, and in communities to find cases of …
Hunger is predictable, preventable, and treatable. But to end hunger, we must first understand and navigate challenging issues that perpetuate the global hunger crisis.
A world without hunger will never be achieved alone. We collaborate with communities, foundations, companies, governments, and humanitarian partners to achieve zero hunger.
Drought, floods, fires, heatwaves, and other climate shocks are driving people from their homes, destroying livelihoods, and pushing communities deeper into hunger. Climate change has a dramatic impact on the quantity and nutritious quality of food …
While peace is the ultimate solution, it’s vital to protect the lives, health, and wellbeing of families affected by conflicts and crises. That’s why we work to save lives and prevent hunger in the most challenging and complex conflict zones around the …
Around the world, 648 million people live in extreme poverty. They survive on less than $2.15 a day, an amount which is impossible to support a healthy livelihood in any part of the world. Without sufficient and sustainable incomes, families cannot afford …
Hunger is fundamentally about power. People with power determine who eats and who goes hungry, who lives and who dies. When the world is unequal, access to nutritious food is not the same, and those marginalized within a community – such as women, …
People Living in Poverty People living in poor communities often lack access to nutritious food and live in unsafe environments with contaminated water, poor sanitation, and inadequate access to health services and education — all of which contribute to …
The planet produces enough food to feed everyone on earth. Yet more than 3 billion people can’t afford to eat a healthy diet. Why? Interconnected issues of poverty, inequity, conflict, climate change, gender discrimination, and weak government and health …
Mali, which already had high levels of acute food insecurity, is seeing escalating levels of violent conflict, driving hunger even higher. For the first time, thousands of people are experiencing “catastrophic” levels of hunger.
Both me and my child were very weak. We do not have enough food - just a bit of rice, wheat, and flour, nothing else. Pregnant women here face the risk of death, and they face many other risks. They do a lot of work, and they have no choice because there …
Hunger is defined by the United Nations as the periods when people experience severe food insecurity—meaning that they go for entire days without eating due to lack of money, access to food, or other resources. Here are some definitions of key terms: …
For decades, global hunger was on the decline. But now, due to conflict, climate change, global inequality, and other factors, famine threatens to return. The Definition of Famine A famine is defined as the most severe kind of hunger crisis. It is very …
