Photo caption: Libby, Claude the Sweet Potato, and World Food Prize President Ken Quinn Last Tuesday was World Food Day but here in Des Moines, Iowa, it felt like World Food Week! While global leaders like UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon were gathering in Des Moines for the annual World Food Prize, ONE members,

The Congressional district leaders of the Southeast were busy putting on events all over Dixieland on World Food Day! From Miami, Fla., to Fayetteville, Ark., our volunteers were busy spreading the word that nutrition needs to be on the agenda in order to help 25 million kids reach their full potential. Here are some highlights

ONE Regional Field Director Abby Sasser provides a recap of ONE’s World Food Day event in Atlanta. ONE Supporter, Top Chef Master and Judge Hugh Acheson whipped up a delicious sweet potato soup for a packed room at The Viking Cooking School in Atlanta last Tuesday on World Food Day. During the cooking demonstration he

With the sweet potato on the menu and nutrition on the agenda, ONE hosted an event to commemorate World Food Day in Denver at the CU Anschutz Health & Wellness Center. According to its Chief Strategy Officer and Associate Professor at the Center for Human Nutrition, Dr. John C. Peters, the center was developed to

ONE Campus chapters participated in World Food 2012 by asking their dining halls to serve sweet potatoes, tabling in high traffic areas, and geting students engaged in the fight against world hunger. Check out some of our best photos from across the country. Carthage College: A ONE member poses with her delicious sweet potato fries

Pastor Kim, Melissa Stark and ONE Regional Field Director Brian Sweeney Yesterday, ONE members across the country were busy raising awareness and generating visibility on World Food Day — including ONE Delaware, Kentucky and ONE New Jersey!

Today is World Food Day. But, I wonder, do the farmers of Africa know it? Actually, for them, every day is World Food Day. Food – growing it, scraping together enough money to buy it – is their daily preoccupation, a primal obsession. Africa’s smallholder farmers – the most common occupation on the continent –

For the past few weeks, ONE has been on a sweet potato kick. We’ve asked you to submit delicious sweet potato recipes to our Tumblr blog, post sweet potato pics onto Instagram using the hashtag #recipe4change, and we’ve featured our little sweet potato character all over our website and our “nutrition petition” — a petition

On Tuesday, October 16th, ONE members will send a message to US leaders to make commitments to reduce chronic malnutrition for 25 million children. We’re encouraging ONE members, staff, volunteers… everyone to send a message at 12 PM ET/9 AM PT to tell leaders to put nutrition on the agenda. And, if you’re at one

Amy Spindler, winner of ONE’s World Food Day blog post contest, brings her story pitch to life in this piece on food security, empowerment and activism. Amy checks out a greenhouse, a simple technology that allows for a longer growing season in the high mountains of Tajikistan.It’s a moment that’s stuck with me. As a

For last week’s ONE Act, we asked our members to pitch us a blog post on World Food Day and hunger. More than 80 people submitted their ideas, and I was moved by how heartfelt, passionate and personal they were. Many wrote about their experiences in the developing world, their work with anti-poverty nonprofits and

Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. He is an economist and his main research interests are at the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. This blog post was reposted from the Development Horizons blog. Last Sunday was World Food Day. It is usually a time when lots of