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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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How Water Cures Hunger

Dependable Sources of Clean Water are Vital for Vanquishing Hunger

In December 1992, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 22 to be an annual World Day for Water. The purpose was to promote conservation and development of water resources.

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Hunger in Cities: A New Report

Cities Produce an Ever-Increasing Number of Marginalized Citizens

In 2004, following a symposium called “The Urban Bomb” in Paris, the international Action Against Hunger network commissioned a study, Urban Hunger, based on bibliographical research and fiel

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Our Exotic Solution to Hunger: Plant Ordinary Rice

In Southern Sudan Rice Turns Out to be a More Viable Solution

Action Against Hunger has served beneficiaries in the swampy upper Nile region of southern Sudan since 2001—one of Africa’s most underdeveloped areas.

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The Missing Fish of Lake Tanganyika

Lessons in Fishing Lead to the Discovery of Larger, Ecological Issues

An ancient aphorism says that if you give a man fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

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