Nearly one in five Americans said they lacked the money to buy the food they needed at some point in the last year, according to a survey co-sponsored by the Gallup organization and released Tuesday by an anti-hunger group.

More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia.

So let me suggest a truly audacious hope for your [Obama's] administration: How about a five-year time-out on war -- unless, of course, there is a genuine threat to the nation?

Half of the world's population could face severe food shortages by the end of the century as rising temperatures take their toll on farmers' crops, scientists have warned.

Mariana Chilton, a children's-nutrition researcher at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said the number of children under 6 who sometimes are forced to go hungry has doubled in recent years to 8 percent of all youngsters.

When social services advocates like me hear that the cost of the federal bailout of the finance sector might top a trillion dollars, we're not quite sure how to process such a massive figure.

The cyclone that swept through Myanmar last weekend left more than 22,000 people dead. Tens of thousands more remain missing. Now the disaster threatens to set in motion a second crisis: one of deepening hunger in Myanmar and across South Asia.

Meteoric food and fuel prices, a slumping dollar, the demand for biofuels and a string of poor harvests have combined to abruptly multiply the World Food Program's operating costs, even as needs increase.

Add another institution to those getting squeezed by America's economic crunch: soup kitchens.

Now these once indomitable monuments are disappearing. And as they retreat, glacial lakes will burst, debris and ice will fall in avalanches, rivers will flood and then dry up, and sea levels will rise even further, say the climate experts. Communities will be deprived of essential water, crops will be ruined and power stations which rely on river flows paralysed.

I was walking out of a grocery store recently when a homeless man approached me and said, "Excuse me sir, I'm trying to buy some food. Can you help me out?"

Child malnutrition rates have increased sharply in Darfur, even though it is home to the world’s largest aid operation, according to a new United Nations report.

This year, Malawi, a nation that has perennially extended a begging bowl to the world, is feeding its hungry neighbors.

Food banks around the country are reporting critical shortages that have forced them to ration supplies, distribute staples usually reserved for disaster relief and in some instances close.