Approximately 850 million people worldwide are malnourished. About a billion people have no access to safe drinking water. Forty million people are infected with HIV/AIDS, 95% of whom live in developing countries. More than a billion people worldwide are living on less than a dollar a day. One in six people are illiterate.

 

Multilaterial Organizations

European Commission Food Security Network - topics related to food security in developing countries

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - supports sustainable development through agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - finances agricultural development projects, primarily for food production, in developing countries

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) - works to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition - raises awareness of nutrition problems and mobilizes commitment to solve them

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to improve social conditions

World Food Program (WFP) - organizes and oversees food aid programs globally

World Health Organization (WHO) International Nutrition Division - information and links to issues of protein-energy malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, infant and young-child feeding practices, nutrition in emergencies, and food aid and development

Bilateral Organizations

African Development Foundation (ADF) - US government's poverty and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa program

Tarayana Foundation - Bhutanese Assistance Program

Agence Française de Développement - French government's distributor of development aid

Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) - Australian governmentıs overseas aid program

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - Canadian governmentıs aid and development organization

Department for International Development Cooperation (DIDC) - Finlandıs overseas aid organization

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) - Germany's aid organization for developing and transition countries

Ireland Aid - Irish governmentıs development cooperation division

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - Japan's Official Development Assistance

Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation - oversees Netherlands aid distribution

New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) - New Zealandıs support

Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) - Sida contributes resources, and develops skills and competence in partner countries.

UK Department for International Development (DFID) - responsible for promoting development and poverty reduction

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance

USAID - Food For Peace - makes commodity donations to address the needs of food security in both 5-year development projects and emergency food assistance programs.

Non-Governmental Organizations - Non-Profits

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) - an independent agency established by the Seventh-day Adventist church for the specific purposes of individual and community development, and disaster relief

Africare - works to improve the quality of life in rural Africa by responding to the requests of Africans who are working to help themselves

ACDI/VOCA - a non-profit organization created by the consolidation of Agricultural Cooperative Development International and Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance. America's agricultural cooperatives and the Farm Credit System founded both organizations with the humanitarian goal of globalizing the success of American agriculture.

CARE - assists the world's poor in their efforts to achieve social and economic well-being

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country

Childinfo.org - Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women plus UNICEF's stastical databases are on this site

Counterpart International - supports the creation and development of strong local institutions and non-governmental networks capable of meeting local and regional needs on a sustainable basis

Foodaid Management (FAM) - Closed but maintains many useful links and resources

Food for the Hungry Inc. (USA) - works with the poor and food insecure to overcome hunger and poverty through integrated self-development and relief

HungerWeb is for researchers, educators, policy influencers, operations personnel, other professionals and students using the Internet to help find solutions to hunger at the global, national, community and household level‹or for anyone who is interested in learning more about the subject. (From Tufts University)

http://www.thehungersite.com - Your click on the "Give Free Food" button funds food for the hungry, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to people in need around the world through the efforts of Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest

International Relief & Development - conducts work in the following activity areas:  food aid and food security, primary health care, agriculture, capacity-building, and microenterprise and community development. 

The International Development Division (IDD) of Land Oı Lakes - formed in 1981 in order to further Land Oı Lakesı mission to adapt its proven expertise in food systems to the creation of profitable businesses and economic growth worldwide

Malnutrition Matters is a Canadian-registered, non-profit organization, dedicated to providing sustainable low cost food technology solutions for malnutrition, primarily by using soya, but also cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables

Mercy Corps - exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities

OIC International (OICI) - a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve lives in developing countries through training and sustainable organizational developmen

Project Concern International (PCI) - dedicated to saving the lives of children and mothers worldwide with basic medical care, nutritious food, clean water and health education

Save the Children - an international nonprofit child-assistance organization

SHARE de Guatemala (Self-Help and Resource Exchange) - a non-profit social business serving a multi-national network of organizations strengthening their communities by helping people to help themselves and others

World Vision - a nonsectarian agency created to provide financial (primarily corporate, foundation, or government grants), gifts-in-kind, and technical resources to World Vision's domestic and international relief and development programs