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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Publications

Action Against Hunger’s International Network produces a number of published works for a variety of audiences each year. A sizeable catalogue of specialized resources—from context analyses, regional assessments, community surveys, and field reports—are available within this section as are works for non-technical audiences:

  • Program updates and field reports
  • Nutritional surveys
  • Water and Sanitation technical papers
  • Food security assessments
  • Regional studies and humanitarian analysis
  • Research projects and documents
  • Position and policy papers
  • Photo Essays and works on global politics

In addition to keeping the public informed with news updates, stories, and articles on our work around the world, Action Against Hunger’s publications support our field programs, our advocacy efforts and engagement with political institutions and actors, and underpin our public education campaigns and fundraising efforts.

List of Publications

Research for the Most-at-Risk

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Scientific research at Action against Hunger tackles the operational needs which arise in the field. It produces tools and methods to be used in highquality and sustainable actions. Research includes carryng out studies, capitalisation, dissemination and valorisation of know-how towards missions and local partners.

Hunger and HIV: From Food Crisis to Integrated Care

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As part of a broader humanitarian effort to address the AIDS pandemic, Action Against Hunger works to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on already vulnerable communities. HIV has complicated the treatment of severe malnutrition, challenging more traditional approaches and protocols and requiring substantial investments in field-based research to enhance our understandings of hunger and HIV. This new publication makes an important contribution to understanding the linkages between HIV/AIDS and hunger by highlighting Action Against Hunger's vital research in Malawi.

Water and HIV: Working for Positive Solutions

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A striking relationships exists between the HIV pandemic and the impact of inadequate water and sanitation resources. Infectious diseases stemming from poor sanitation and contaminated water sources complicate malnutrition and illness; for those with HIV, the impact and risk is even greater. Yet, as outlined in this report, Action Against Hunger’s ongoing research and field work offer a range of proven, cost-effective solutions.

Beyond Any Drought

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Commissioned by the Sahel Working Group –- a network of high-profile international agencies including Oxfam, the British Red Cross, CARE International, Save the Children, and Action Against Hunger -- this report examines how vulnerability is understood and addressed in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Concerned that the specifics of the 2005 food crisis have obscured its persistent underlying causes, this report calls for smarter assistance if cyclical emergencies are to be overcome in the Sahel.

Women and Hunger: Women play a central role in the fight against hunger

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As the principal providers for families around the world, women are key partners in the struggle to end hunger and agencies must incorporate such realities into the very design of their humanitarian programs.

The Justice of Eating: The Struggle for Food and Dignity in Recent Humanitarian Crises

(In Print)

An assessment of hunger in several African case studies, this book weaves personal testimonies into a a powerful indictment of the institutions, structures, and processes that account for the persistence of hunger today.

Darfur

(Out of Print)

After a career in banking, Stéphanie Rivoal joined Action Against Hunger in northern Sudan in 2005 where she documented in stunning photographic detail the complexities that underlie the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

Misère urbaine: la faim cachée

(Out of Print)

Five Agence VU photographers visited ACF’s programs to give photographic voice to the phenomenon of urban hunger, creating a startling companion piece to ACF’s study on urban hunger, La faim dans les villes...

La faim dans les villes

(In Print)

Urban demographics are explosive and set to grow by 100,000 people a day for the next 30 years, promising an upswing in urban hunger, a phenomenon with its own dynamics. This important assessment presents studies of urban hunger in the D.R. Congo, Haiti, Argentina, and Liberia.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Populations at Risk

(Out of Print)

An instructional manual for both emergency and development settings, this authoritative book condenses ACF’s three decades of expertise in extending water and sanitation improvements to populations in need.

Regards sur le monde: Les visages de la faim

(In Print)

A group of notable Agence VU photographers give artful testimony to the contexts in which ACF works, documenting the daily struggles for life and dignity that confront so many communities around the world.

The Geopolitics of Hunger, 2001-02: Hunger and Power

(In Print)

Combining the concrete experience of ACF’s field staff with solid academic research, this page-turning study and indictment of the status quo is sure to capture the imagination of any activist or student of world affairs.

Assessment and Treatment of Malnutrition in Emergency Situations

(Out of Print)

Intended for those with significant medical training, this manual combines ACF’s proven field expertise with the latest scientific insights to create an indispensable guide for the treatment and prevention of malnutrition.

Souffles du monde: un autre regard sur l’humanitaire

(Out of Print)

Eleven renowned photographers take an intimate tour of ACF’s field programs where each reconstructs an alternate vision of global humanitarian efforts through the urgency of the stories and portraits captured on film.

The Geopolitics of Hunger, 1998-99: Hunger as a Weapon

(Out of Print)

Action Against Hunger’s flagship publication investigates the uses of hunger as a political instrument. This volume also offers inspiring examples of ACF’s field programs that deliver lasting solutions to global hunger.

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