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World's First Food Bank
The world’s first food bank, St. Mary's Food Bank, was founded by John van Hengel in Arizona. After volunteering in a soup kitchen, van Hengel came up with the idea of people depositing food, while others in need could withdraw it.
Video: St.Mary's Food Bank 50th Anniversary Documentary
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World Food Conference
There were 500 million hungry people accounted for in the world. This year, the World Food Conference pledges to eradicate child hunger in 10 years. -
The World Food Summit
830 million hungry people in the world. The World Food Conference pledge was not successful. The World Food Summit pledges to reduce the number of hungry people by half by the year 2015. -
U.S. Farm Bill
12% of the U.S. population is hungry. The U.S. Farm Bill increases food nutrition programs, like Food Stamps, Women and Children in need. Also, food banks use local and industry-donated food to add to donations of government surplus. -
Millennium Summit
The Millennium Summit was a three day meeting at the UN headquarters in NYC. There, world leaders pledged to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by half by 2015. -
The World Food Summit+5
There are 850 million hungry people in the world. The Food and Agriculture Association hold a world meeting in order to discuss the progress made in eradicating hunger since the The World Food Summit in 1996. The World Food Summit+5 admits to poor progress on the Millennium Development goals. -
World Food Security High-Level Conference
There are 862 million hungry people in the world. The FAO holds a conference on World Food Security called High-Level Conference. They announce that instead of reducing the ranks of the hungry to 400 million, hunger has increased. Over three billion people live on less than $2 a day. The UN developed a website called Free Rice, a vocabulary game. For points tallied, sponsors donate money to world hunger.
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12% of the U.S. population is still hungry
$60 billion are annually put in government food nutrition programs and there are over 50,000 food banks and food pantries across the nation, one in six children in the U.S. go hungry each month and 35 million people do not meet minimum daily caloric requirements.
Linked is a website with quizzes over world hunger. Hunger Notes will make a donation, ranging from $.02 to $.10, to assist hungry people for each quiz taken.
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Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
U.S. Congress passes the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. This sought to improve children’s access to healthy meals through providing 4.5 billion dollars in new funding.
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Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly developed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including 17 Sustainable Development Goals. One of the goals is to eliminate world hunger.
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COVID-19 Impacts World Hunger for the Worse
The coronavirus has impacted supply chains, humanitarian access, the global economy and food supplies. Because of this negative impact, the number of severely hungry people this year could double to 270M.
Video: After COVID: A global hunger pandemic?
