Educational Videos:
Hunger
This video is about a woman using data collection to maximize the efficiency of food banks. This integration of technology into the food bank project shows how even old ideas can be revolutionized with technology.
This video highlights the World Food Programme, an organization devoted to fighting hunger worldwide. The video is a short introduction to who they are, as well as specifically how they tackle these issues.
This video shows a man who delivers food in his van to people all over St. Petersburg. This shows small scale, individual efforts to curb hunger in one’s community.
Focused on a small community in Mississippi, this video highlights the struggles of children who do not have proper food security, as well as the effects that cutting food stamp programs could have on their survival.
This video shows how both government departments and nonprofits are working to combat hunger in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Here, a restaurant in Brazil offers meals for less than one US dollar. This project allows people to have greater access to food, without the stigma of accepting charity.
Shown here is a program run by Wal-Mart, where communities were giving thousands of dollars towards fighting hunger. this shows the potential roles that corporations can have in fighting hunger.
This video explores why in many cases countries that have the most farmland end up being the most malnourished and hungry, displayed with heavy use of graphics and charts.
This video is a story in the first person of a girl living in Ethiopia, exploring the fallout from the 1984 famine and the 2015 El Nino drought.
This video is a brief overview of the organization City Harvest New York, which provides nutritious meals for those in need.
This video explores the mission of the Food Bank of Oklahoma, showing examples of some of the hardships the people they serve are going through.
This video highlights the efforts of the GROW organization, which heavily involve including women in their advocacy, helping to ensure that they have more opportunities for employment.
This video shows a student’s project to expand the use of ‘gleaning’ as a method of fighting hunger, where people collect the products that farms discard due to not fitting industry standards. These products are still perfectly nutritious and edible, and so the project hopes to reduce waste and feed the hungry through doing this.
This video shows a Canadian food bank, where food is distributed to low income families. The organization acknowledges and highlights that in developed countries, hunger is rarely an issue of the amount of food available, but of income.
This video shows the effects of the war in Yemen, and how it is causing widespread famine. It also shows how the medical personnel in the area are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of starving people.
Another example of technology being used to fight hunger, this video discusses an app through which restaurants and grocery stores can alert food banks of their surplus foods that are going to bethrown away. Often times, this food is perfectly good, and so at very little cost to anyone, thousands of pounds of food is made available to those in need.
This video is a discussion of an app where restaurants and stores can advertise when they are disposing of surplus food, so that it may be collected by nonprofits.
This video discusses how world hunger is an issue not of supply, but of getting the food to the hungry. More than enough food exists to feed everyone on earth, but access and logistical issue cause shortages.
This video highlights the importance of protecting women’s rights in the context of world hunger. greater social inclusion is an important part of ending hunger.
The fight against hunger is on. Before World Food Day join the Canadian Hunger Foundation in their international development efforts to reduce poverty & end hunger.