hunger & malnutrition

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Yemen: Quick facts: What you need to know about the crisis in Yemen

Around 70 percent of Yemen's population — 19 million people — is in need of humanitarian support like food, water and medicine. How did this happen? Here's what you need to know about this crisis, and what you can do to help.
A hotter planet, a hungrier world

The impacts of climate change are pummeling nations around the world. But for the poor, the consequences are particularly destructive: more poverty, more hunger. We can't end these plights, then, if we don't tackle climate change, too.
Niger: Why we're inviting men to husband school

Women in rural Niger traditionally bear the burden of all the tasks that a healthy home and family depend on. We're helping strengthen families by teaching husbands to take an active role, too.
Niger: How farm school is helping Salma beat hunger

Through training and new techniques, Salma and her community are learning to grow more hearty, bountiful crops to carry them through the hunger gap, the time between harvests when food stores traditionally run out.
Niger: The hidden survivors of the hunger gap

Every year, millions of people in Niger have to figure out how they will survive between harvests. This is what they look like.
PHOTOS: Kitchens around the world

In every corner of the world, food brings people together. But where we cook and gather looks different for each one of us, depending on where we live and what we've been through.
Yemen: In the face of hunger, a doctor's knowledge goes viral

Some 14 million people in Yemen people don't have the food they need. Learn how one doctor is challenging traditional beliefs and teaching mothers why exclusive breastfeeding is the best way to keep their children healthy and fed.
Uganda: Fighting hunger, one garden at a time

Women in rural Uganda are finding a simple solution to the big problem of hunger: kitchen gardens.
Nigeria: The new threat for survivors of Boko Haram

For millions of Nigerians who've escaped the terror of Boko Haram, the struggle to survive isn't over. In their places of refuge a new danger lingers: hunger.
The first 1,000 days: No time for malnutrition

The first 1,000 days of a child's life, when development is happening more quickly than it ever will, is the most harmful time for them to be malnourished. Learn about the causes and effects of this devastating condition.