To prevent children from dying in a famine, they simply need food.
Children are the most impacted by famine and, not just because of lack of food, but lack of nutritious food and supplements to help them survive preventable diseases like pneumonia or malaria.…
Donations are needed most after a famine is declared.
We can actually prevent more death and misery by acting earlier. Donations are needed now so humanitarian aid groups can intervene with aid that can save lives and help avoid a famine.…
Demand for corn to produce ethanol is causing a shortage of food.
While corn and other crop prices increased from 2006 to 2007, there is no shortage of food crops. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service says U.S. farmers planted 92.9 million acres of…
Demand for corn by ethanol plants in the United States is driving up the price of food throughout the world.
Current fluctuations in food prices from increased demand for corn for ethanol do not represent a permanent competition between fuel demand and food security. Food prices increased 4.1 percent in the United…
Cellulosic ethanol is a decade or more away.
The world’s first cellulosic ethanol production facility — owned and operated by Iogen in Ottawa, Canada — has been converting wheat straw into ethanol since 2004. Abengoa Bioenergy is completing construction of…
Growing more crops for both food and fuel will have negative environmental impacts, including increased fertilizer, water and land use – which will come from conservation areas or from environmentally sensitive areas such as rainforests.
Only 20 percent of the increase in U.S. crop productivity in the past 35 years has come from expansion of crop land. Further, biotech improvements to crop seeds have enabled farmers to…
There’s a hunger crisis in other parts of the world—not in America.
40 million people face hunger in the United States. That’s more people than the entire population of Canada. And it means that across our nation, people simply can’t make ends meet. High…
People who face hunger in America are typically homeless and unemployed.
Most of the households we serve are not homeless, and they have at least one working adult. Even with a job and a place to call home, many people struggle to get…
Hunger is most frequently found in cities.
Hunger is common in rural areas—including some of the farming communities that grow America’s crops. Seventy-nine percent of the counties with the highest hunger rates in America are in rural areas. Limited…
Food waste and hunger are different problems with different solutions.
By reducing food waste in America, we can also help reduce hunger. Seventy-two billion pounds of good food goes to waste each year in America, while at the same time, 40 million…
