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December 10, 2025

Agriculture & Nutrition

Classic Publication: Bittersweet Harvests, by Ann Thrupp

A classic publication about food insecurity remains "Bittersweet Harvests for Global Supermarkets: Challenges in Latin America's Agricultural Export Boom" from 1995 by Lori Ann Thrupp, Gilles Bergeron, and William F. Waters Published: publis...

December 9, 2025

Global

Scoop: State Department ends support for some food security programs

by Elissa Miolene Devex

"The decision halts funding for initiatives that build resilience in chronically food-insecure regions — known as resilience food security activities or nonemergency food aid — which are designed to reduce chronic hunger and prevent future emerge...

December 1, 2025

Africa

New Nutrition Data!: Field Exchange, Malnutrition Field Programs, October 2025

Review by WHES Team:   The Emergency Nutrition Exchange, based out of Dublin, Ireland, has published groundbreaking, field-level technical research about attacking malnutrition for the last few decades.  The latest edi...

November 21, 2025
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Global

Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity

by WHES Team

Lesson Plans on Hunger and Food Insecurity As part of its mission to educate about hunger, WHES has put together an index of publicly available lesson plans on hunger and food insecurity. Whether you are a sc...

November 17, 2025

Africa

A Crucible of Courage: A Review of Ken Isaacs’ "Running to the Fire"

Ken Isaacs spent more than three decades with Samaritan’s Purse, rising to executive vice-president and helping turn Franklin Graham’s organization into one of the largest Christian relief agencies on earth. In Running to the Fire he rec...

November 15, 2025

famine

Food Assistance Outlook Brief

by FEWS NET

FEWS NET released their Food Assistance Outlook Brief for October 2025.  The monthly outlook briefs provide country-by-country information on hunger hot spots as well as and global trends. This brief focused on Guatemala and Mozambique.  You can al...

November 11, 2025

Opinions

In Case You Missed It: "Without investment in innovation, volatility will send farmers like me backward"

Sarah Tweeten, Des Moines Register

In an opinion editorial for the Des Moines Register second-year corn and soybean farmer Sarah Tweeten explores the pressures US farmers currently face including price drops, cost increases for equipment and inputs like ...

November 11, 2025

Global

USAID Library of Project Reports and Evaluations Now Available from Third Parties

By: WHES Board (*Note this post was updated from its original Feb 18, 2025 version to add the two new pages with DEC resources.)   American Taxpayers often have questions about how funds for foreign aid work.  In early 2...

October 13, 2025

Asia

The Use of Food as a Weapon: Reflections Working with Khmer Refugees

by Angela Berry-Koch

Field Experience on the Thai–Cambodian Border, 1979 The year was 1979.  In October, I braved the streets of Bangkok, Thailand at five o’clock in the morning to get on a volunteer bus bound for the T...

October 12, 2025

Books & Media Reviews

Environmentally-Induced Displacement and Health/Nutrition -- a Roundtable Review

A roundtable of two dozen experts, including leaders of key international NGOs, met at George Washington University to examine the global implications of environmentally-induced migration and health, in a context of declining aid.  The report, ...

October 6, 2025

Anti-Hunger Organizations

Gaza Humanitarian Food Aid - A Report by Senators Van Hollen & Merkley

A detailed report by U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) and Jeff Merkley (Oregon) resulting from a fact-finding CODEL mission to Israel, Gaza’s border, the West Bank, Jordan, and Egypt is a review of their observations of destruction and for...

October 5, 2025

hunger

United States Cancels Household Food Security Report

by Kathy Goss, WHES Board Trustee

In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995.  For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households...

October 4, 2025

Books & Media Reviews

The End of Hunger -- Essays by Leaders

https://www.ivpress.com/the-end-of-hunger-ebook?srsltid=AfmBOootE5RoYWD8C0TVLCZSx23JoApP48O2iyOamQ7nOxMWWvsDfKXo

The Anthology, The End of Hunger:  Renewed Hope for Feeding the World  (2019, Illinois:  InterVarsity Press), includes 29 short, readable chapters about the problem of hunger, early childhood nutrition needs, and recommendations for the ...

October 3, 2025

Agriculture & Nutrition

The Regenerative Agriculture Solution - a Review

by James Phillips, WHES Board https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-regenerative-agriculture-solution/?srsltid=AfmBOoo8CKN09rnRlefi2JEioOFBMO3u3a0QudLijTBiyWZps0Wdzz-i

The Regenerative Agriculture Solution by Ronnie Cummins and Andre Leu makes a compelling case for regenerative agriculture as a pathway to improving food production, sequestering carbon, and restoring soil health. The book focuses heavily on...

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