Hunger Crises are escalating at several hot spots: Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, and Somalia. These areas are suffering starvation and famine as a result of armed conflict, droughts, or torrential rains which destroys crops and kills...

This resource discusses hunger in America and explores the reasons behind it. In question and answer form, discussions include housing costs, poverty, food insecurity, and the many other problems the poor face. (Published Nov. 22, 2005)

Learn how hunger and malnutrition affect humans around the globe.

The World Food Programme is the largest food aid organization in the world, providing food where needed to victims after earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters. Learn what hunger is: the causes, the people, where...

In addition to offering a summary of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins , this guide contains notes on themes, a collection of quotes, character profiles, interactive quizzes, a list of study questions suitable for reviewing the story,...

Most of us have little knowledge of what it's like to experience malnutrition. Malnutrition is caused when a person does not have access to a well-rounded diet or has a condition that does not allow him or her to absorb the proper...

The World Food Programme of the United Nations provides a list of countries where under-nourished people are receiving help. Includes basic facts, overview and WFP activities.

How can you stop yourself from making unhealthy decisions or acquiring bad habits? In a world of increased portions sizes and highly processed convenience foods, it isn't as simple as knowing what is and isn't good for you.

Examines the challenges faced by the average American, by African Americans, and by farmers on the Great Plains during the Great Depression, and the government's response or lack thereof.

Explores the final decade of the women's suffrage movement through powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington, D.C. procession, Ida B. Wells's successful voter registration...

Freed slaves had a hunger for education. Find out how they supported their own schools in addition to receiving aid from the Freedmen's Bureau and northern aid societies.

Lorna Dee Cervantes is presented in this brief biography, drawing attention to political and social messages which are camouflaged by vivid use of nature in her writings. See "Lorna Dee Cervantes Activities" for related materials.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Grosz in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.

Have you ever read any of Richard Wright's work? This site offers an extensive crosscurricular Teacher's Guide that includes questions for research and writing.

The decline of Sumer was caused by salinization which led to hunger and malnutrition. Sargon the Great easily defeated the weakened Sumerians to establish the Akkadian empire. Study the rise and fall of the Akkadian empire and view a...

Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Margaret Mead, noted anthropologist and prolific author.