New research at UT Southwestern Medical Center may explain why some people who are stressed or depressed overeat.

As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields.

UN experts warn: long-standing conflicts set off by higher food prices are in store for the world.

More than $1.1 billion a year is spent on public programs in Missouri, yet a new University of Missouri study reports the state has a rising number of people worried about having sufficient amounts of food and coping with hunger.

Many children in Niger, the landlocked nation of West Africa, are dying from treatable conditions in the name of sustainability.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the 850 million hungry people in the world. A ceremony was held at FAO headquarters in Rome to mark World Food Day 2007.

Scientists have discovered that leptin, one of the key hormones responsible for reducing hunger and increasing the feeling of fullness, also controls our fondness for food.

"I have been shocked to see that children could still die of hunger in Rio de Janeiro..."

The UN says more than a million children each year die from malnutrition. Poor nutrition is one of many factors that weaken a child’s immune system, making it harder to recover from malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia. Every year, these three diseases kill up to five million children under five years of age around the world. But now health experts have a cheap and efficient tool to include in their arsenal against malnutrition – a paste that’s tasty, easy to eat, and high in nutrients.

A U.N. expert says more than 850 million people around the world are starving. The expert, who has submitted a report on the state of world hunger to the U.N. Human Rights Council, says the international community has failed to honor its pledges to eradicate hunger.

While thirty-five million Americans feel the physical effects of hunger each day, every household and individual in our nation feels the economic effects. So finds a new study released today by the Sodexho Foundation and researchers affiliated with Harvard University School of Public Health, Brandeis University and Loyola University.

American actress Drew Barrymore was named a World Food Program ambassador against hunger, the United Nations agency announced Wednesday. Barrymore just returned from a trip to Kenya, where she toured WFP-supported school meal projects, the agency said in a statement.