Scientific understanding is challenging the conventional wisdom about hunger — now framing it as a scourge that afflicts not only people who get too few calories, but also those who consume mostly ...

NEW YORK(CBSNewYork)-- New York City's hunger problem is now a crisis, according to those who work with people who need help. One in six New Yorkers is now living in a home where there is not enough ...

Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into ...

AI and Nanotechnology are two of the leading technologies today, and they may soon help in solving World Hunger via "Precision Agriculture" which has been debuted by researchers. The team from the ...

Three weeks before he was elected president, Barack Obama set an audacious goal: end hunger among children in the United States by 2015. Since his inauguration, Obama has seldom broached the subject.

Students in the World Food Problems course talk with Dennis Savaiano, the Virginia C. Meredith Professor of Nutrition Policy, during one of the course's small-group discussions. In the discussions, ...

Nearly 42 million people in the United States get help from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy food. To put that number in perspective, State Farm Stadium — where I play for ...

Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana is launching a campaign next month to raise awareness of hunger and prompt greater action, and both are needed to combat this serious ...