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Hunger relief is a field of human activity aimed at eliminating chronic hunger and malnutrition. As of 2012, the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization reported that about 870 million people globally are suffering from severe hunger. Millions more suffer from food insecurity, including in the advanced economies of Europe and the United States. In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals were approved, which include a goal to eliminate hunger and achieve food security. Many organizations have started initiatives aiming to achieve the goals by 2025. Various methods are used to relieve hunger, including directly supplying the hungry with food; helping to develop people's abilities to grow or otherwise secure their own food; helping to develop related secondary skills such as budgeting; advocating and implementing economic reforms to improve the availability of affordable and healthy food in the marketplace. Tens of thousands of organisations are engaged in hunger-relief efforts. For some, such as governments, corporations and religious groups, hunger relief is not their primary focus. Other organisations are dedicated to helping the hungry: these range from grass-roots local establishments such as independent soup kitchens, to multilateral agencies operating as part of the UN, such as the FAO or the World Food Programme. Many of these organisations are connected by a web of national and international alliances. For example, in the United States The Alliance to End Hunger is a national group with many smaller member groups, and is itself a member of several larger international groups, including the international civil society group Stop Hunger Now and the UN's Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition. Read more... Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. This is being achieved by getting volunteers involved, and by setting up food packaging satellites in the USA, and through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide - enabling Kids Against Hunger to deliver its specially formulated rice-soy casserole to starving children and their families in over 60 countries. The Kids Against Hunger network currently includes about 100 food packaging centers with the goal to establish 500 packaging centers in all 50 U.S. states. Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want. Throughout her works Lappé has argued that world hunger is caused not by the lack of food but rather by the inability of hungry people to gain access to the abundance of food that exists in the world and/or food-producing resources because they are simply too poor. She has posited that our current "thin democracy" creates a mal-distribution of power and resources that inevitably creates waste and an artificial scarcity of the essentials for sustainable living. Select [►] to view subcategories ▼ Hunger ► Famines ▼ Humanitarian aid ► 2010 Haiti earthquake relief ► Homelessness ► Humanitarian military operations ► Humanitarians ► International responses to disasters Members of the United States Navy serving hungry Americans at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen, Salinas, California in 2009. “ The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. ” — Frances Moore Lappé Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Other : Please add this portal link to related articles: {{portal|Hunger relief}} –When a task is completed, please remove it from the list. Charity (practice) Humanitarianism Hunger Global Hunger Index Hunger in the United States Hunger in the United Kingdom Food and Agriculture Organization World Food Programme Additional topics Action Against Hunger Adventist Development and Relief Agency Afghanistan Relief Organization American Refugee Committee American Relief Administration Australian Freedom From Hunger Campaign Greater Boston Food Bank CARE (relief agency) Children's Hunger Fund Church World Service Commission for Relief in Belgium Cross International Delhi Food Banking Network Episcopal Relief and Development Famine Famines in Ethiopia Feed the Children Feeding America Farmer to Farmer Focus Humanitarian Assistance Food and Agriculture Organization Food bank Food Donation Connection Food First Food Force Food for the Hungry Food for Peace Food security Foodways Fight Hunger Bowl Freedom from Hunger Global Hunger Alliance Great Famine Hare Krishna Food for Life Hunger in the United Kingdom Hunger in the United States Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 Hunger Task Force, Inc. Jewish Relief Agency Kids Against Hunger List of famines Local United Network to Combat Hunger Meals on Wheels National Crusade Against Hunger (Mexico) North Korean famine Oxfam Share Our Strength Society of St. Andrew Soup kitchen Stop Hunger Now Walk the World We Are the World World Food Council World Food Programme World Hunger Relief Week World Hunger Relief World Hunger Year World Relief Template:/box-footer Food Society Politics Sustainable Development Human Rights United Nations The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: Template:/box-footer FAO hunger portal Hunger Statistics from the UN's World Food Programme Hunger Notes from the World Hunger Education Service Hunger Relief research on IssueLabTemplate:/box-footer Wikipedia's Portals All Portals Overview Glossaries Indices Lists Outlines Categories Reference Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Featured portals About portals