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Who's Involved with Hunger: an Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy DOCUMENT RESUME ED 356 983 SO 022 740 AUTHOR Kutzner, Patricia L. TITLE Who's Involved with Hunger: An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy. Fifth Edition. INSTITUTION Bread for the World Inst. on Hunger and Development, Washington, DC.; World Hunger Education Service, Washington, DC. REPORT NO ISBN-0-9628058-8-2 PUB DATE 92 NOTE 58p.; For previous editions, see ED 247 161 and ED 270 334. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Advocacy; Annotated Bibliographies; *Federal Prr.grams: *Hunger; International Organizations; International Programs; Poverty; *World Problems ABSTRACT This document presents an annotated bibliography of organizations that battle world hunger, seek to educate the public about the problem, and/or provide advocacy services. Among the groups that are described are the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations, U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. congreLsional agencies, U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Canadian organizations, and domestic U.S. NGOs. The volume includes acknowledgments, a preface on how to use the book, and an index of nongovernmental organizations. The section on U.S. NGOs presents information about citizens' legislative advocacy, information and education related to world hunger, religious education and action programs, voluntary development aid, and policy oriented research and advocacy. The domestic NGOs section addresses nutrition and poverty policy, economic opportunity and economic alternatives, agricultural and rural development, and local assistance and advocacy action. (LBG) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 1 WHO'S INVOLVED WITH HUNGER An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy Fifth Edition U.S. DEPASTMENT OF EDUCATFOIS Offic of Educononsi Reword+ and issnmemoni INFORMATION EDUCATIONALRESOURCES C CI ?:fL This document nag Coonteproducod Wowed from tn. parson OfOreenuation originating it O Minor choopis Nye Weft made40 timprove ledrodocnon moldy P01011 Of tro 010CM pas stated in .ent 00 notcessnly rpfoant °Multi OEM position Or 0.014c0 -PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY I V's) C; TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Patricia L. Kutzner AV"fth. AV WHO'S INVOLVED WITH HUNGER: An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy is dedicated to the women, men, and youth in these and similar organizations who persist with hope and courage despite adversity and against the odds to build a world for all people where human dignity is liberated, human community, fulfilled and a wounded Creation, healed. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many people have helped World Hunger Education Service bring this new edition of Who's Involved With Hunger to light. Students Melanie Kim from George Washington University and Sara Lowden from the University of Maine carried out e major share of the new research on nongovernmental organizations. International Voluntary Services under executive director Linda Worthington, a long-time WHES Associate who edited the third edition in 1982, sponsored Ms. Kim's work. Ms. Lowden was sponsored by the University of Maine School of Social Work under the direction of William H. Whitaker, also a World Hunger Education Service Associate. John Moore assisted with research for the United Nations section. Dr. Whitaker's suggestions significantly strengthened the section dealing with U.S. hunger and poverty, both as to substance and arrangement. Valuable guidance came also from Mary Ellen Lloyd, director of the Domestic Hunger and Poverty Working Group of the National Council of Churches from 1978 to 1990 and author of Ecumenical Domestic Hunger Project Network and It's Time to ShoutllHistory of the Program on Domestic Hunger and Poverty 1975-1990. In the federal agency section we are indebted to Neal Peterson at the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to WHES Associate Antonio Gayoso at the U.S. Agency for International Development for their help with the bureaucracies of those agencies, particularly regarding USAID because of its administrative restructuring in 1991. Linda Coffin, owner of PageCrafters in Minneapolis and another WHES Associate, skillfully met our "due last month" layout deadline without losing her sense of humor. Thanks are due also to the 420 organizations included here for patiently supplying the information requested. The editor takes sole responsibility throughout for the selection of information and the accuracy of reporting, hoping that the errors inevitable in so much detail prove not to be unduly dire or numerous. An organization's inclusion does not imply endorsement, nor does omission imply lack of significance. This must be emphasized. Rather, unfortunate omissions are acknow- ledged as a consequence of balancing broad representation of the many, approaches to issues of hunger and poverty with the practical limitations of space. Finally, great appreciation for the very possibility of producing at last a new edition of Who's Involved With Hunger after a seven years' hiatus is due to the fifth edition sponsors who provided essential funding (an asterisk marks WHES Associates): CODEL, the World Hunger Committee of the Iowa Methodist Board of Global Ministries, the Episcopal Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, *Michael and Jeanette Altamura, *Mamice Boyd, *Rev. Lowell Glendon, the Mennonite Central Committee, World Hunger Year, *Phillipp Hesser, Christian Children's Fund, Freedom From Hunger, *Jean M. Wilson, Goose Creek Friends Meeting, *James and Marjorie Akins, *Helen and Ferris Owen, PACT, Catholic Relief Services, Nationwide Insurance, Edward Hawkins, *Nancy Folger, *Billie A. Day, CARE, Peace Committee of the Friends Meeting of Washington, Marshall Matz, Don and Barbara Reeves, the Food Research and Action Center, Kathlin Smith, and-the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. ii --, WHO'S INVOLVED WITH HUNGER An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy Fifth Edition 1992 Patricia L. Kutzner Executive Director, World Hunger Education Service CORRECTIONS Page 2International Food PolicyResearch Institute. New address effective July 1,1992: 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-3097.Telephone and fax numbers unchanged. Page 33--Overseas DevelopmentCouncil. New address effdctive June 29, 1992: 1875 ConnecticutAvenue, NW, Suite 1012, Washington, DC 20009. Telephoneand fax numbers unchanged. Published by World Hunger Education Service and Bread for the World Institute on Hunger and Development Washington, D.C. iii Chronology of Editions First edition, 1976, edited by Patricia L. Kutzner and Timothy X. Sullivan, published by World Hunger Education Service and the American Freedom From Hunger Foundation. Second edition, 1979, edited by Patricia L. Kutzner, published by the Presidential Commission on World Hunger and World Hunger Education Service. Third edition, 1982, edited by Linda Worthington, published by World Hunger Education Service. Fourth edition, 1985, edited by Patricia L. Kutzner and Nickola Lagoudakis, published by World Hunger Education Service with help of a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Fifth edition, 1992, edited by Patricia L. Kutzner, published by World Hunger Education Service and Bread for the World Institute on Hunger and Development. Who's Involved With Hunger: An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy, Fifth Edition, by Patricia L. Kutzner. 1992. ISBN 0-9628058-8-2. $7.50 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Published by World Hunger Education Service, P.O. Box 29056, Washington, DC 20017 (202-298-9503) and Bread for the World Institute on Hunger and Development, 802 Rhorle Island Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20018 (202-269-0200). Copyright 1992 by World Hunger Education Service, all rights reserved. Desktop publishing design by PageCrafters, 2441 34th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55406. (612) 724-3441. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ii Preface: How to Use This Book vi United Nations/Inter-Governmental Organizations 1 U.S. Federal Government Agencies 7 U.S. Congress 12 Global Focus: U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations 17 Citizens' Legislative Advocacy 17 Information/Education Related to World Hunger 17 Religious Education/Action Programs 26 Voluntary Development Aid 27 Policy Oriented Research & Advocacy 31 Global Focus: Canadian Organizations 34 Domestic Focus: U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations 35 Nutrition and Poverty Policy 35 Economic Opportunity & Economic Alternatives 37 Agriculture & Rural Development 41 Local Assistance & Advocacy Action 43 Index of Non-Governmental Organizations 48 I PREFACE: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Who is involved with hunger? Actually, anyone doing anything that affects someone's livelihood and access to food. That's a very broad statement but true. Public policy? Inevitably and always, it's either part of the problem or part of the solution. The status of human rights? Again, part of the solution or part of the problem. Food production, processing, distribution? Obviously relevant. Unemployment and underemployment versus full employment and decent income? Inherently hunger issues. Access to land and other productive assets? There can hardly be a more fundamental livelihood issue. Corporate accountability to local communities? Another fundamental livelihood issue. Sustainable
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