Hunger

Sub-headings:

Famine

Community Gardens

Food Relief

Nutrition

Resources in this category:

Economic Research Service, USDA
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodSecurity/

This site contains statistics about food security in the United States. It also provides information on readings, research developments and data products relating to food security.

Feeding America
http://feedingamerica.org/

Feeding America is the leading hunger-relief charity in the country, supporting a network of food and hunger related agencies across local communities. Provides links and information for becoming involved in the fight against domestic hunger.

Hunger Web
http://nutrition.tufts.edu/academic/hungerweb/

Hunger Web provides much useful information about hunger around the world. It includes information about what it's like to be hungry, and what can be done about it. Another particularly useful section details information about poverty in the United States. It is fairly graphics intensive and can take a while to load.

Hunger: Myths and Realities
http://rehydrate.org/facts/hunger.htm

This site gives the myths and facts of world hunger.

Minimum standards in Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid
http://www.sphereproject.org/handbook/html/5_ch3.htm

This comprehensive site gives standards on how to assess and analyze food security, nutrition, malnutrition and food aid. Also gives fact sheets such as a food security assessment checklist, nutrition assessment checklist and a chart of nutritional requirements.

USDA Nutrition Assistance Programs
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

This comprehensive site gives information regarding food and nutrition. Information available includes data and statistics, community outreach and nutrition education.

World Hunger Notes
http://www.worldhunger.org/

As a service of the World Hunger Education Service, the goal of this website is to "inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world."