How to End Hunger

Policy Change

This is an important time to get involved and make your voice heard. Congress and the president are making major decisions that could seriously harm individuals and families living in poverty and at risk of hunger. Bread for the World’s policy agenda focuses on the issues that will put our country and world on track to ending hunger by 2030.

These are some of the issues that Congress or the administration need to address in order to accomplish this goal.

Agriculture and Trade

Trade can be a powerful tool for the reduction of poverty in developing nations. But U.S. agriculture and trade policy has sometimes undermined the efforts of African countries to take the first step out of poverty. Learn more.

U.S. Federal Budget

The federal budget is statement of who we are as a nation. It is more than a financial document. It is a moral one. “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). This applies to nations as well as people. Learn more.

Tax Credits

When you think about a household budget, what are the expenses? Big ones like rent, transportation, child care, and utilities are mostly fixed expenses. Food ends up being the most flexible necessary budget item. With tax policies we can protect money that many low-income families need for food. Learn more.

Criminal Justice Reform and Hunger

Our criminal justice system is broken; the inequities are stark and alarming. The brokenness of the criminal justice system leads to hunger and poverty. Bread is committed to doing our part to end hunger and poverty in ways that advance justice. Learn more.

Global Nutrition

Ending hunger around the world is not just about providing people with enough food — the calories. It’s also about providing the right nutrients. Globally, 149 million children are stunted and will not have the chance to achieve their full potential because of poor nutrition early in life. Learn more.

Foreign assistance

Think of foreign assistance, and you might picture food relief or rebuilding towns following disasters. However, U.S. foreign assistance includes many long-term development programs to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. Learn more.

Immigration Reform

Bread for the World sees global progress against poverty as progress against hunger as well. One of the major reasons people leave their home countries is to escape poverty and improve their livelihoods. Read more.

International Food-Aid

When a disaster strikes – such as 2013’s typhoon in the Philippines, or 2010’s earthquake in Haiti, or the crisis in Syria – people overseas receive emergency food from the United States. The government also provides ongoing food aid to address the “silent disaster” of hunger and malnutrition. Learn more.

Climate change is a hunger issue

People in low-income countries face the impact of climate change on a daily basis – even though they contribute least to greenhouse gas emissions. Learn more.

Nutrition in the United States

Nearly 13 million children in the United States—1 in 6—live at risk of hunger. Many of these children have parents who have jobs and work hard, but their wages aren’t high enough to cover the high costs of rent, transportation, and utilities—and daily meals. Learn more.