The National Hunger Hotline, a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the Hotline is a portal to information, assistance and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food. In
02-07-2012
Continuing our reports from the UN Rio +20 sustainable development summit last week… Dr. Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, speaks on agroecology, hunger, global action, and social movements at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Altieri is a leading scholar of ecological agriculture or "agroecology," conducting
02-07-2012
by Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, Outreach and Partnerships Manager of the Global Movements Program [Ed note: As we've been reporting, WhyHunger's Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau has been at the Rio +20 UN sustainable development summit. The Summit ended yesterday, but at the end of last week, Tristan sent us these notes about his time there.] My experience at Rio +20 has been amazing. I
28-06-2012
The National Hunger Hotline, a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the Hotline is a portal to information, assistance and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food. In
02-07-2012
Continuing our reports from the UN Rio +20 sustainable development summit last week… Dr. Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, speaks on agroecology, hunger, global action, and social movements at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Altieri is a leading scholar of ecological agriculture or "agroecology," conducting
02-07-2012
by Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, Outreach and Partnerships Manager of the Global Movements Program [Ed note: As we've been reporting, WhyHunger's Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau has been at the Rio +20 UN sustainable development summit. The Summit ended yesterday, but at the end of last week, Tristan sent us these notes about his time there.] My experience at Rio +20 has been amazing. I
28-06-2012