Opinions
Fridtjof Nansen: Polar Explorer turned Hunger Activist
May 10, 2026 By Lani Marquez My husband and I recently visited Oslo, Norway, a beautiful city surrounded by the Oslo Fjord. One of the many very interesting museums we visited there was the Fram Polar Exploration Museum, which houses No...
Opinion: “No One Should Go to Bed Hungry: A New Era of Global Need”
May 8, 2026 The U.S. nominee to head the World Food Programme, and currently the Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Luke J. Lindberg, published an opinion in this week's Newsweek Magazine, arguing that: "Today, hunger is rising, with almost 320 million people facing acute food in...
Global Food Crisis Opinion in Irish Times
April 30, 2026 The Executive Director of Concern Worldwide, Dominic Crowley, published in the Irish Times to amplify the findings of the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, noting how "in total, 266 million people in 47 countries/territories exper...
“Coming Food Crisis” Predicted in Financial Times Essay
April 18, 2026 In a major Weekend Essay, Adam Hanieh, writing in the Financial Times British newspaper on April 17 2025, warns that the current Middle East conflict will cause a world food crisis. Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. The wo...
Former International Food Aid Expert Reflects on U.S. SNAP
Former federal worker Nadira Kabir reflects on her experience navigating access to the SNAP program (U.S. domestic food assistance) after unemployment and pregnancy. "SNAP exists because hunger doesn’t wait for ...
In Case You Missed It: “Without investment in innovation, volatility will send farmers like me backward”
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 fertilizer, trade uncertainty, debt, and the shutd...
The end of my career in global health
The election of Donald Trump in November 2024 was a gut punch, but I did not know then that the real destruction of the world as I knew it would begin to unfold in January 2025, when Trump began the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAI...
Questions to Ask about Aid from USAID
The US Government Agency that Brings Aid - USAID USAID, started in 1961 under President John F. Kennedy. Estimates are that some 3 billion people in 150 countries have benefited directly from U.S. food assistance . The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a part of USAID, identifies fo...
USAID Adds Value in Disaster Response, Says Former Hunger Notes Chair
Opinion piece from the former WHES Board Chair: Most people do not realize what a huge mistake it would be to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as appears to be underway here in February 2025. It would be like throwing the prove...
Film Mischaracterizes Humanitarian Aid Work
[Editor's note: The following opinion piece was written by career aid worker Amy Leah Potter in response to the recent release of the film "Dirty Angels" which has upset many people in the aid community for its depiction of humanitarian NGOs serving as shells to hide army combatants. The mov...
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