by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 28, 2021 | News
Climate change is threatening three decades of progress in curbing global hunger, according to a report published Jan. 20 by Bread for the World. Global hunger has been reduced by half during the last 30 years, but that trend could reverse in the coming decades, the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 1, 2017 | News
The U.S. faith community has responded primarily with concern and critique to President Trump’s budget proposal. The Central Conference of American Rabbis said it “strenuously objects” to the budget in a May 25 press release, asserting “The...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 28, 2016 | News
Hunger and poverty are being addressed more effectively than any other time in history. Poverty has declined from 37.1 percent of the global population in 1990 to 9.6 percent in 2015, according to Bread for the World’s 2017 Hunger Report. Over the same period,...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 23, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Significant progress on global malnutrition can be made in 2011, the ecumenical anti-hunger group Bread for the World said Monday (Nov. 22) in its new annual report on hunger. The U.S. government’s “Feed the Future” initiative has the potential to...
by Bob Allen | Jul 31, 2007 | News
Born as part of FDR’s New Deal to protect struggling farmers coming out of the Great Depression from unpredictable weather and fluctuating crop prices, America’s farm program has evolved today into the largest form of corporate welfare, say critics calling...
