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The Food Access Research Atlas: Presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility; Provides food access data for populations within census tracts; and Offers census-tract-level data on food access that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes. What can you do with the Atlas? Create maps showing food access indicators by census tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket accessibility; View indicators of food access for selected subpopulations; and Download census-tract-level data on food access measures.

Our food system is broken. Some people don't have enough food, while others are eating too much. There's only one way to fix this problem and it starts with you and me. Food Tank: The Food Think Tank is for the 7 billion people who have to eat every day. We will offer solutions and environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty by creating a network of connections and information for us to consume and share. Food Tank is for farmers and producers, policy makers and government leaders, researchers and scientists, academics and journalists, and the funding and donor communities to collaborate on providing sustainable solutions for our most pressing environmental and social problems.

This requires comprehensive efforts to ensure that every man, woman and child enjoy their Right to Adequate Food; women are empowered; priority is given to family farming, and food systems everywhere are sustainable and resilient. The challenge of Zero Hunger means: 1. 100% access to adequate food all year round 2. Zero stunted children less than 2 years 3. All food systems are sustainable 4. 100% increase in smallholder productivity and income 5. Zero loss or waste of food

Michael J. Rosen, Food Fight: Poets Join the Fight Against Hunger with Poems about Their Favorite Foods (Boston: Harcourt, 1996). Age Level: 9 and up Publisher Description: Thirty-three poets--including Lois Duncan, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Nikki Grimes, Joseph Bruchac, Jane Yolen, and Charlotte Zolotow contribute new poems about different foods, in a volume that benefits Share Our Strength's effort to end hunger.

Published on Jun 22, 2012 In Mauritania, as elsewhere in the Sahel, drought has led to terrible food shortages and malnutrition is threatening the lives of thousands of children. Luckily, mothers can bring their children to UNICEF-supported treatment centers. Deida is typical of the mothers who arrive. "All of the families are suffering, " she says. " Her son, Ahmed Salim, is almost a year old, but weighs just 11 pounds. Rougui's two-year-old son, Idy, regained his health after treatment at the center, but the family's struggle to survive continues. UNICEF is providing micronutrient-enriched food and milk and is ahelping health-care workers keep track of children's development. But as long as the crisis continues, families will continue to need help.

An interactive computer game where kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. "Fuel" tanks for each food group help students keep track of their food choices. The Blast Off Game was designed specifically for children aged 6 to 11.

Center for Disease Control. "Food and Nutrition." Accessed March 25, 2013. http://www.cdc.gov/bam/nutrition/index.html Grade Level: 3 and up Description: The character Kendra is the 'Food & Nutrition' expert. Get advice from her about smart food choices and ways to stay powered up. The Right Fuel Delivers for You! Healthy foods and drinks give your body what it needs to give you back lots in return - energy, powerful muscles, and more. There is an interactive game to play and a link to healthy recipes.

The Lunch Box is an online toolkit with Healthy Tools For All Schools, packed with solutions at your fingertips. Use any of these free tools to transform your school food into healthy and delicious food for all children, at every school. Go ahead, open The Lunch Box, use the recipes and other tools-for-change that have worked so well for school districts across the country, and make positive change happen in your community. The time to get started is now.

These photos, taken in June 2011, show the Provide Clinic in the settlement of Korogochi, in Kenya. The clinic is a UNICEF-supported health centre providing care and treatment for local women and children. Living in Korogocho is tough. Over 200,000 people live within one square kilometre, squeezed in together with poor water and sanitation facilities. Households in Korogocho spend most of their incomes on staple foods. Because of rising food prices, families cope by reducing the size and frequency of their meals. As a result, severe malnutrition is a problem.

BrainPop Jr. "Eating Right." Accessed March 25, 2013. http://www.brainpopjr.com/health/food/eatingright/ Grade Level: K-3 Description: This is a great interactive website that teaches younger students about proper nutrition and food. There are also two quizzes that correspond with the video, an activity, words to include on a word wall, and other activities and lesson ideas for teachers.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide practical tools for estimating food and nutritional needs of populations in emergency situations.

Improving child nutrition is the focal point of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The legislation authorizes funding and sets policy for USDA's core child nutrition programs: the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Summer Food Service Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children.

CRC Article 24 Every child has the right to food and nutrition. Animated by Elphin Lloyd-Jones. Telemagination, England.

Lizzy Rockwell, Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009). Age Level: 4 and up Publisher Description: Good Enough to Eat is one of a kind: the only guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. A practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet, this book explains nutrition from carrots to cookies.

Heather Forest and Susan Gaber, Stone Soup (Little Rock: August House Little Folk, 1998). Age Level: 4 and up Publisher Description: Two hungry travelers arrive at a village expecting to find a household that will share a bit of food, as has been the custom along their journey. To their surprise, villager after villager refuses to share, each one closing the door with a bang. As they sit to rest beside a well, one of the travelers observes that if the townspeople have no food to share, they must be in greater need than we are.

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers. CNPP and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) are agencies of USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.

Katie Smith Milway and Sylvie Daigneault, The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough (Tonawanda: Kids Can Press, 2010). Age Level: 8 and up Grade Level: 3 and up Publisher Description: From the best-selling author of One Hen comes the inspiring story of one struggling farming family in Honduras and their journey to growing enough food to meet their needs. Based on the real story of farm transformation underway in Honduras and many other countries, this book offers children ways they can be part of the movement to grow "good gardens" and foster food security. Eleven year old Mara Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books. When Mara's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden. Then a new teacher comes to Mara's school and introduces her to sustainable farming practices that yield good crops. As Mara begins to use the same methods at home, she too sees improvements, which allow her family to edge their way out of the grip of the greedy "coyotes" the middlemen who make profits on the backs of poor farmers. Little by little, the farms and the hopes of Mara and her neighbors are transformed as good gardens begin to grow. Organization Affiliation: CitizenKid

What foods should you eat to help your body function at its best? When you consider the wide range of nutrients the human body needs to grow and be healthy, it may not be surprising that three-fourths of the U.S. population does not meet daily recommended dietary allowances. Here, learn about these key nutrients and the foods that provide them.

NOVA. "Nutrients Your Body Needs." Accessed March 25, 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/nutrients-body-needs.html Grade Level: 4 and up Description: This is an interactive website that looks into how carbs, protein, fiber, and more help our body and what they do when digested.

The Earth's population is soaring, but its resources are finite. Can we provide food, water, energy - and televisions, cars and holidays - for everyone, and leave future generations more than a planet-sized rubbish tip? BBC News Online explores sustainable development in a six-part special.

WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.