Further Information

For more information, analysis and case study materials, see:

Media briefing paper on the impact of the current financial crisis on the poor (including in hunger), see: documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp202039.pdf

For some NGO case studies on hunger, see the following:

• Oxfam and Brazil: www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cs-fighting-hunger-brazil-090611-en.pdf
• Trócaire and Rwanda: www.trocaire.org/povertyandhunger
• Self Help Africa: www.selfhelpafrica.org/selfhelp/Main/ISSUES-food.htm
• Aidlink and feed security www.aidlink.ie/index.php/our-work/food-security

For details on the report of the Irish Government's Special Envoy on World Hunger see: www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=1722

For a critical discussion of the Irish Government's response to world hunger, see the article by Nita Mishra in the 2010 edition of Trocaire's Development Review at: www.trocaire.org/sites/trocaire/files/pdfs/tdr/Article%208.pdf

Links

• The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations: www.fao.org
• The World Health Organisation - www.who.int/en
• The International Fund for Agricultural Development - www.ifad.org
• The United Nations World Food Programme - www.wfp.org
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World Report 2010 - www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en
• The International Food Policy Research Institute's 2010 Global Hunger Index Report - www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ghi10.pdf
• Irish Aid Hunger Task Force Report - www.hea.ie/files/2008%20Hunger%20Task%20Force%20Report.pdf
• Based in the United States, Bread for the World aim to provide help to communities locally and abroad at policy level, as well as challenging the causes of hunger and the conditions which allow hunger to exist - bread.org