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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.

Humanity Against Hunger In the Humanity Against Hunger web module, students become volunteers to help solve the severe food shortage faced in Africa. Through the interactive experience, students learn how nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus deficiencies can stunt plant growth in multiple ways. They also learn that replenishing the land with fertilizer can help farmers achieve higher crop yields to feed more people.

There are 870 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in eight people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide - greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Listing of facts about hunger and action steps.

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.

Kids Against Hunger. "Get Involved." Accessed March 26, 2013. http://kidsagainsthunger.org/ Grade Level: 3 and up Description: Our mission at Kids Against Hunger is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. We ship meals to starving children and their families in over 60 countries through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide. We need your help to end world hunger.

No Kid Hungry 2. "Help End Childhood Hunger in Your Community." Accessed March 26, 2013. http://nokidhungry2.org/ Grade Level: 2 and up Description: This is a great organization to help fight childhood hunger. On the website there are parent and teacher resources, ideas for how to get students involved through bingo nights, bake sales, and other fundraisers. There are also educational activities to bring into the classroom and educate students about nutrition and hunger.

Child hunger is a big problem in America. And we have a big goal to help tackle it. We are working together to raise 1 million meals for kids in communities across the United States - in just 6 weeks. Every action you take helps us reach our goal. Plant a community garden, organize a food drive, or host an event that will get more and more people involved in the fight against child hunger.

Understanding world hunger

Listing of lesson plans in the Finding Solutions To Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference's Teacher Guide

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

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 kids can do to make a difference about poverty and hunger.

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.

Shows percentages of populations that are undernourished.

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.

Nutrition in 2 minutes - the challenge of breaking the cycle of hunger is providing food at the right time. The physical and mental impact of malnutrition for under two year olds can be irreversible.

Nutrition in 2 minutes - the challenge of breaking the cycle of hunger is providing food at the right time. The physical and mental impact of malnutrition for under two year olds can be irreversible.