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Drought, food crisis, famine: What's the difference?
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The need

Nutritious food is a critical building block for children’s growth and development. Half of all childhood deaths can be traced to malnutrition. And when parents are weakened by hunger, they cannot work, grow crops or provide for their families.

Severe food shortages result from factors that often compound each other:
  • Poor farming techniques
  • Low soil fertility
  • Poor access to quality seeds
  • Poor control of crop pests
  • Environmental degradation
  • Drought and other natural disasters
Unless communities can establish secure sources of food to meet their nutritional needs, they have little hope of offering their children a healthy future.
Nutritious food is a critical building block for children’s growth and development.

Food for Education Program



Through World Vision's Food for Education program, students in Afghanistan who attend school and perform well can receive food to take home to their families.

Stories from the Niamey camps


Families driven from their homes in search of work or food talk about their life in temporary camps in Niamey, Niger.


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When disaster strikes, contact us for expert interviews, photos, b-roll and other resources.

A young boy in a refugee camp in Southern Africa eats his rice. The food crisis in Southern Africa grows worse by the day as grain prices continue to rise .
A young boy in a refugee camp in Southern Africa eats his rice. The food crisis in Southern Africa grows worse by the day as grain prices continue to rise.

In Honduras at a World Vision distribution center, a pregnant mother receives essential food supplies to prevent malnutrition.
In Honduras at a World Vision distribution center, a pregnant mother receives essential food supplies to prevent malnutrition.

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05/09/2011		OPEN LETTER to First Ladies at the G8 Leaders' Summit
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11/11/2010G20 urged to tackle food security, avert another global crisis
03/11/2010Nutritional aid is cost-effective measure against health and hunger problems
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