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Learn about hunger from the point of view of those who experience it every day. HungerBanquet.org
is part of Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest campaign, which raises awareness and funds to fight
poverty world hunger.
http://www.hungerbanquet.org/
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Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development
Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world,
the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to
eliminate poverty and hunger.
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/hunger_readings.htm
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Congressional Hunger Center
A non-profit anti-hunger leadership training and a bi-partisan organization, serves as a center
where the anti-hunger community can discuss creative solutions to end domestic and international
hunger, located in Washington, DC.
http://www.hungercenter.org/
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RESULTS
Nonprofit, grassroots citizens's lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the
worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in
realizing their own personal and political power.
http://www.results.org/
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Environmental Literacy Council: Food and Hunger
Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/6.html
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The Hunger Site
Includes facts as well as a form for making donations.
http://www.thehungersite.com/
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Hunger: Myths and Realities
Contains myths about world hunger and their respective truths.
http://www.rehydrate.org/facts/hunger.htm
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Food Dumping (or Aid) Maintains Poverty
Looks at the effects of food aid to developing countries in non-emergency situations. Additional
links, articles and research are provided, including links.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/FoodDumping.asp
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Is it sustainable to spend this much on lipstick and pet food?
Hope Magazine suggests from U.N. world data that what people in U.S. spend on cosmetics and pets
could more than feed the whole world.
http://www.hopemag.com/issues/11-12-98/ed-n-d98.htm
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Action Against Hunger - USA
An international organization and recognized leader in combating hunger. Delivers emergency aid and
longer-term assistance to people suffering from natural disaster or man-made crisis.
http://www.aah-usa.org
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Fidel Castro Speech
The Cuban president presents appalling statistics on the hunger of children and other issues at the
50th World Health Assembly, May 1998.
http://www.ldb.org/castro.htm
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Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center and
non-profit think tank focusing on issues of hunger, food, poverty, agriculture, trade, and rural
development, guided by the principle that food is a fundamental human right.
http://www.foodfirst.org
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NomadNet
A collection of unorthodox views on aid and relief operations: Many articles suggest charities are
partially to blame for hunger in Africa becasue they ignore evidence about hunger in order to
fatten their coffers.
http://www.netnomad.com
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Still Hungry
Position paper on world hunger, showing it has little changed in a quarter century, with more
children than ever going hungry.
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/jan97bacon.htm
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World Hunger Notes
An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger
Education Service
http://www.worldhunger.org
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UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 1998
Overviews the scale of malnutrition and causes, lists solutions, gives a scientific role, and
provides statistical tables .
http://www.unicef.org/sowc98/
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FRAC - Consequences of Hunger
Short factsheet. Hunger impacts on health (physical and mental), literacy, intelligence, child
development, education, and infant mortality.
http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/health.html
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Vegfam
Feeds the hungry without exploiting animals.
http://www.veganvillage.co.uk/vegfam/
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World Hunger Resource Center (WHRC)
A comprehensive respository of resources dedicated to ending World Hunger!
http://www.garvinweb.com/whrc
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Bread for the World
Bread for the World stands in a long biblical and prophetic tradition of those who speak out boldly
in defense of people who are poor, hungry and consigned to the margins of society. People of faith
and conscience have long engaged in the struggle for a more just world. They have fought for the
abolition of slavery, for an end to nuclear proliferation and for the respect of human dignity and
freedom.
http://www.bread.org/
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