Hunger and Livelihoods

Save the Children’s research suggests that income shortages in poorer households, when combined with shocks such as natural disasters or conflict, reinforce poor health and nutrition and thereby lead to higher rates of child deaths.

Hunger also keeps children out of school and limits their ability to concentrate once in school. Studies conducted by Save the Children indicate that learning achievement among children from poor families is systemically lower than their peers.

An increasing number of young people live in a state of poverty, unemployment and/or underemployment. Over one-fourth of young people in the world cannot find a job paying more than $1.25 per day, the international threshold of extreme poverty. Three quarters of young workers ages 15-29 are employed in the informal sector, increasing the possibility of exploitative or hazardous working conditions.

Save the Children’s Household Economy Approach (HEA) outcome analyses have found that the cycle of vulnerability due to chronic hunger and a lack of livelihoods security may lead poorer households and children to pursue unsustainable and dangerous livelihoods opportunities, to withdraw children from school, or to encourage early child marriage or harmful child labor.

Food security, livelihoods protection and strengthening, and poverty alleviation programs are an essential underpinning to ensuring the survival, education and protection of children, such that the intergenerational cycle of poverty can be broken.

To address this, Save the Children:

World hunger and famine

When disaster strikes, Oxfam works with a global network of local organizations to address urgent humanitarian needs and protect lives. We deliver food, clean water, cash, and information, working closely with local leaders who know how best to help people in need.

But the COVID-19 pandemic has also revealed the fragility of our food systems. That's why Oxfam is working with local communities across the world to build resilient and sustainable local food systems able to provide nourishing food for everyone to solve world hunger.

In order to stop world hunger, Oxfam and our partners help farmers learn new techniques, share their innovative ideas with each other, grow more food, and earn more money. And when sudden disasters (an earthquake or an upsurge of locusts), or slow-onset emergencies such as drought bring hunger and the threat of famine, we help people rebuild the ways they make a living so they can put food on the table.

For farmers, we provide seeds, tools, and other supplies people need to grow their own food, keep their livestock healthy, and become self-sufficient. In many emergencies, Oxfam provides cash so people can make their own food purchasing decisions, to ensure they can get what will help them best (and circulate money in the local economy).

Communities enduring emergencies and food shortages may also face a lack of clean water and the threat of disease. It’s hard to absorb nutrition from any available food if you have a stomach ailment. Oxfam and our partners help people with a source of clean water, soap so they can stay clean, and a proper toilet to avoid contaminating water supplies. In many of Oxfam’s ongoing programs, our partners work on promoting good hygiene and sanitation to help people stay healthy even when there is not an emergency.

Oxfam and our supporters advocate for peace, push for adequate assistance for people affected by war and famine, and campaign for climate action given the climate crisis' effect on the world’s supply of food and the poorest communities.

Our research and advocacy advance sustainable development in ways that help reduce the risk of future food crises and disasters, helping communities become more resilient.

We also advocate for more assistance for rural women farmers, who account for nearly half the agricultural workforce in developing countries. Despite their crucial roles in producing food, they face discrimination and limited bargaining power, disadvantages in land rights, unpaid work, insecure employment, and exclusion from decision making and political representation.

Find out what you can do to reduce hunger and the likelihood of famine in the world. Visit our Take Action page to sign up for a virtual event, add your name to a petition or contact your member of Congress to push for better policies, and join our E-Community.

You can also make a donation towards hunger relief: Your financial contribution can help fight hunger and famine, so we can defeat poverty and injustice.

How to help: New Hampshire Tackles Hunger 2023

How to help: New Hampshire Tackles Hunger 2023

Updated: 9:31 AM EDT Aug 23, 2023

WMUR is once again teaming up with the New Hampshire Food Bank, Dead River Company and high school athletic departments to tackle hunger in New Hampshire! The high school football teams will be picking an upcoming football game to collect food and raise money for the local food pantries in their community. Over the last 10 years, this project has collected more than 842,000 pounds of food for local food pantries. The drive kicks off Friday, Aug. 25, at the Queen City Jamboree at Gill Stadium in Manchester, where the NH Food Bank will be collecting donations. >> To donate cash, visit https://www.nhfoodbank.org/nh-tackles-hunger/ <<NEEDED ITEMS FruitsCanned tropical fruits (oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, mangoes, etc.)Canned apples, canned pearsCanned stone fruits (apricots, peaches, cherries)Apple sauceVegetablesCanned red/orange: peppers, carrots, beets, tomatoes, pumpkin Canned mushroomsGreen: Canned asparagus, green beans, peas, artichokes, spinachStarchy: canned corn, potatoesProteinDried or canned beans (chickpeas, black beans, kidney beans, etc.)Dried or canned lentilsCanned tuna or other canned fishCanned chickenPeanut and other nut buttersMixed nutsWhole GrainsBrown or wild riceQuinoaBarley or farroRolled oatsWhole wheat pasta, crackers, oatmealOtherSoup or broths (low sodium)Herbs and spicesSparkling water or seltzerShelf-stable milk OR nondairy milk100% fruit juiceSCHEDULE OF GAMES WHEN COLLECTIONS WILL OCCUR Friday, Sept. 15Portsmouth vs. DoverMerrimack Valley vs. PlymouthBedford vs. KeeneMonadnock vs. InterlakesSaturday, Sept. 16Epping vs. Fall MountainFriday, Sept. 22Pinkerton vs. LondonderryKingswood vs. EppingNashua North vs. Nashua SouthManchester Memorial vs. PortsmouthSaturday, Sept. 23John Stark vs. Manchester WestMascoma Valley vs. Bishop BradyHollis Brookline vs. PelhamKennett vs. St Thomas AquinasFriday, Sept. 29Pelham vs. Hillsboro DeeringSaturday, Sept 30Gilford vs. LaconiaKeene vs. GoffstownSaturday, Oct. 7Franklin vs. Mascoma ValleyInter-Lakes vs. Epping-NewmarketADDITIONAL INFORMATIONDead River Company is collecting food donations at the following locations:159 Elm Street, Manchester452 Winchester Street, Keene432 Route 108, Somersworth27 Hill Road, Franklin30 Pleasant Street, Bristol329 Highland Street, Plymouth2300 Dartmouth College Hwy, Rte 10, North Haverhill20 Hall Avenue, Henniker (Ayer & Goss)49 Shirking Road, Epping (Buxton Oil) TACKLES HUNGER PARTNERSNew Hampshire Food Bank Dead River CompanyAgain, to donate cash, please visit https://www.nhfoodbank.org/nh-tackles-hunger/.

WMUR is once again teaming up with the New Hampshire Food Bank, Dead River Company and high school athletic departments to tackle hunger in New Hampshire! The high school football teams will be picking an upcoming football game to collect food and raise money for the local food pantries in their community.

Over the last 10 years, this project has collected more than 842,000 pounds of food for local food pantries.

The drive kicks off Friday, Aug. 25, at the Queen City Jamboree at Gill Stadium in Manchester, where the NH Food Bank will be collecting donations.

>> To donate cash, visit https://www.nhfoodbank.org/nh-tackles-hunger/ <<

Dead River Company is collecting food donations at the following locations:

Again, to donate cash, please visit https://www.nhfoodbank.org/nh-tackles-hunger/.