Effective Policies and Strategies for Ending World Hunger

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This website is devoted to development policy analysis based on the field experience of The Hunger Project. Many of the materials here have been developed as contributions to the work of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force, on which our president Joan Holmes served.

The Hunger Project's experience around the world has led it to the conclusion that most of the remaining chronic hunger in our world is directly caused by the social context - by deeply entrenched social conditions that systematically deny people the opportunity to end their own hunger. The most significant of these conditions is the severe subjugation, marginalization and disempowerment of women. Strategies to meet the Millennium goal for cutting hunger in half by 2015 must therefore include interventions to:

• empower women and mainstream gender in all development activities, and
• mobilize people for self-reliant action to improve health, education, nutrition and family incomes on a sustainable basis.

The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers rural communities to achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income.