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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/

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/

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/

Short fact sheet. 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

Overviews the scale of malnutrition and causes, lists solutions, gives a scientific role, and provides statistical tables .
http://www.unicef.org/sowc98/

An on-line magazine about world hunger and poverty in the United States published by World Hunger Education Service
http://www.worldhunger.org/

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

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

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

Contains myths about world hunger and their respective truths.
http://www.rehydrate.org/facts/hunger.htm

Articles critical of agribusiness, pesticides, and genetically engineered plants.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/6.html

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/

USA part of an international humanitarian network called Action Against Hunger.
http://www.aah-usa.org/