Bread for the World’s facts and figures on global hunger and poverty.

The Crescent Community Clinic opened in Spring Hill, Fla., in 2008 to serve the health needs of the area’s poor and uninsured. See an Aug. 25, 2008, St. Petersburg Times story.

Joachim von Braun is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, whose mission is to seek sustainable solutions to end hunger and poverty. Based in Washington, D.C., it is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations.

James Vernon is a history professor at the University of California-Berkeley and author of Hunger: A Modern History. He teaches courses on food and hunger.

Benjamin Senauer is professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota and co-author of Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization.

C. Ford Runge is director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy and Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota. He is co-author of Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization.

Peter Rosset is a food rights activist, agroecologist and rural development specialist. He is based in Oaxaca, Mexico, as a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano (Center of Studies for Rural Change in Mexico) and co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network. He is also global alternatives associate of the Center […]

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is co-editor of Ethics, Hunger and Globalization: In Search of Appropriate Policies (2007). He was director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute for 10 years. He is also the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and professor of applied […]

Author of Diet for a Small Planet and co-author of World Hunger: Twelve Myths. She is co-leader of the Small Planet Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and was a co-founder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Contact through Rod Meade Sperry, outreach and operations director.