The "Trees That Feed Foundation" announced today that in just five years 50,000 food-bearing trees donated by the organization have been planted in Caribbean nations to help combat hunger and develop a sustainable food source.
In Amritsar, India, volunteers are able to serve 100,000 meals every single day of the year from a kitchen in the Golden Temple that never closes.
The country singer and his wife say that they're launching the store as a means of reducing food insecurity in Nashville, Tennessee.
This school district from Indiana has come up with a brilliant solution for both food waste and student hunger.
Once fully implemented, this new waste reduction strategy will salvage over one million healthy meals from landfills every year.
This 15-year-old boy with autism worked hard to get a lifetime supply of peanut butter – and now he is sharing his fortune with those in need.
The kitchen will be serving up free hot meals to all furloughed workers and their families starting tomorrow on Pennsylvania Ave.
In order to feed the homeless people of Boston, this youngster will soon be operating his own food truck out of Cambridge.
Instead of letting their rejected food shipments go to waste, truck drivers are being connected with local charities that can put the food to good use.
This is just one way that the band has been benefiting thousands of people in need during their current world tour.
Coal mine farming is becoming a groundbreaking new way of simultaneously fighting unemployment, hunger, climate change, and deforestation.
I went to donate a mammogram with a simple click of my mouse and found -- on the same page -- not only the Hunger Site, but the Rainforest Site, The Child Health Site, the Literacy Site, and the Animal Rescue Site!
After hearing the shocking figure that up to 40 percent of produce goes to waste in the fields, Christy Porter founded Hidden Harvest an organization that employs the working poor to rescue farmers' leftover produce to feed the hungry.
Sometimes, corporations actually bring their know-how and human capital to bear on a problem, instead of just giving money to a cause. The global pharmaceutical company Abbott is a shining example, working to combat severe malnutrition in Haiti by manufacturing a high-protein, high-calorie fortified peanut paste.
Ethiopia has more than halved its child mortality rates since 1990 through campaigns to increase the number of health workers and clinics throughout the country, government and aid officials said on Friday. The number of health posts has surged to more than 9,000 in 2011 from a handful in 2004 with priority shifted towards food-insecure areas, UNICEF said.
For the past 12 years, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has served cooked food to nearly 1.4 million children in government schools across the India. And now, it has reached an important milestone serving its billionth meal in August.
Britain's double Olympic gold hero Mo Farah on Sunday helped launch a hunger summit with other athletes aimed at tackling malnutrition worldwide, held at Prime Minister David Cameron's home.
A mother in Wales has posted an advert on Gumtree offering free home cooked meals every Monday to families living on benefits. Boudicca Stretton-Brown, 27, said she was happy to cook extra while feeding her own family "to offer a little help to those who may need it."
Startups like Food Cowboy, founded by Richard and Roger Gordon, see wasted food as a business opportunity. Some, like CropMobster, are using Craigslist or Twitter so that people who have crops or surplus they can't use, can post the availability to others who can divert it to better use.
A man dressed as comic hero Spider-Man has begun walking the streets of Birmingham, England handing out sandwiches to the homeless.
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