Tag: Hunger

  • Nation & World

    How food donations can help fight hunger and climate change

    Every year, nearly 700 million people suffer from hunger around the world, while 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away.

    10 minutes
    Emily Broad Leib.
  • Nation & World

    How pandemic set back efforts to fight other deadly global health problems

    COVID-19 has not only sickened and killed millions around the globe, it has wreaked havoc on existing programs to fight health ills that affect millions more. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams discusses with the Gazette an “action agenda” on global health for the incoming Biden administration.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hunger on the rise amid pandemic

    Experts on food insecurity and diet gathered at an online forum on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hunger in America, and ways to make the post-pandemic food landscape better than that before COVID struck.

    4 minutes
    Food distribution site.
  • Nation & World

    Making the most of meals

    Harvard University recently launched an effort to address chronic hunger among its neighbors in Cambridge and Boston by partnering with the local nonprofit Food for Free to donate nearly 2,000 nutritious meals each week to families in need.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Empty Bowls to fill coffers

    An Empty Bowls open house and dinner was held Thursday at the Harvard Allston Education Portal Annex. The fundraiser utilized the talents of Harvard students, artists at Harvard’s ceramics program, and other community partners to raise money for the hungry.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Exploring roots of hunger, eating behaviors

    Synaptic plasticity — the ability of the synaptic connections between the brain’s neurons to change and modify over time — has been shown to be a key to memory formation and the acquisition of new learning behaviors. Now research reveals that the neural circuits controlling hunger and eating behaviors are also controlled by plasticity.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Faith in good works

    Harvard undergraduates from many faiths will gather at the Student Organization Center at Hilles on Nov. 20 to package meals for hungry Boston-area children. The interfaith community service event is part of the Values in Action program launched this fall by Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard University spotlights hunger as it kicks off Public Service Week

    Harvard President Drew Faust says the University will begin a yearlong commitment to volunteer support of The Greater Boston Food Bank. The announcement comes on the eve of World Hunger Day and as Harvard prepares to launch its Public Service Week, Oct. 19 -25.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Food, sex conference draws SRO crowds

    Money. Race. Health. War. That list of potent topics summarizes the first four years of conferences on gender sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. This year’s gender conference (April 12 and 13) added a fifth topic: food, which by some accounts has elements of all the others combined.

    7 minutes