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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... "We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide. Awarded numerous honors—including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award—the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a home video, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters, and shirts. The promotion and merchandise aided the success of "We Are the World" and raised over $63 million for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US. Norman Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution", "agriculture's greatest spokesperson" and "The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives". He is one of seven people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor. Select [►] to view subcategories ▼ Hunger ► Famines ▼ Humanitarian aid ► 2010 Haiti earthquake relief ► Homelessness ► Humanitarian military operations ► Humanitarians ► International responses to disasters Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange (1936), a classic photo of people struggling with hunger. Lange's notes she took while photographing read: "Seven hungry children. Father is native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tires to buy food." “ When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. ” — Hélder Câmara 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