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Announcing the 12th Class of Leland International Hunger Fellows

September 14, 2023Leland, Updates

The Hunger Center is delighted to announce the newest class of Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows. These ten fellows will spend the next two years performing crucial program and policy work and developing their leadership skills to become the next … Read more

Meaningful Change or Temporary Solution? Exploring Community-Based Participatory Research in Kenya

Casey TokeshiAugust 4, 2023Leland, Updates

Above: Casey Tokeshi (third from right) shares a meal with colleagues in Kenya. Casey was placed with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT in Nairobi, Kenya. In the first year of my fellowship, I participated in two projects in the … Read more

Who Stays Behind? Understanding the Implications of Male Labor Migration on Women-Headed Households in Western Nepal

Lexi KirtonApril 28, 2023Field, Leland, Updates

Above: Jima Community Meeting: Lexi (Research & Learning Specialist), Nilanjana (MEL Assistant), and Neetu (CARM Officer) meet with the Jima community during the learning agenda scoping mission in Mugu. 📸:  Lexi Kirton On one of my most recent trips to … Read more

Humans are Complex: Why Our Approaches to Nutrition Behavior Change Must be Too

Bailey Adams, Bailey AdamsMarch 31, 2023Field, Leland, Updates

Above: A local market in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. 📸: Bailey Adams There is a tendency amongst medical professionals, nutritionists, and development practitioners to believe human behavior is rational and grounded in logic. We think that if people are given the … Read more

Answers to Questions We Don’t Know Exist: “Localization” and Local Knowledge in Guinea

Doug NagieFebruary 24, 2023Field, Leland, Updates

Above: A 4×4 navigates a difficult patch of muddy road. The quality of roads, and challenges of transportation, can be explained to distant staff in a meeting or report; but that explanation might mean relatively little compared to actually navigating … Read more

Boosting Cooperatives to Support Farmers in the Philippines

Felipe Cook, Felipe CookDecember 23, 2022Leland

Above: Leland Fellow Felipe Cook (left) with colleagues at CDP grand launch event in September, 2022. Food security in the Philippines is facing steep challenges. Nearly three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the Philippine economy. As one of the … Read more

A Secret Ingredient: Women’s Agency and Food Security in Senegal

Natalie PetrullaDecember 23, 2022Leland, Updates

Above: A Debbo Galle Group during a focus group discussion with Leland Fellow Natalie Petrulla (seated, in blue chair) and Debbo Galle Coordinator, Marcel Yanga, in the northern region of Saint Louis, Senegal. It is important to note that LGBTQI+ rights … Read more

Apply Now for Congressional Hunger Center Programs in 2023

December 22, 2022Emerson, Leland, Updates, Zero Hunger

Current and most recent classes of Emerson and Leland Fellows and Zero Hunger Interns. The Hunger Center is accepting applications for the next classes of Mickey Leland International and Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowships and the Zero Hunger Internship. Whether … Read more

Investigating the Enabling Environment of Food Security in Ethiopia

Natalie VolinOctober 8, 2022Field, Leland, Updates

Above: Natalie Volin, 11th Class Leland Fellow. Over the past year at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), I have worked on the evaluation and learning activities of the Strengthen Productive Safety Net Program Institutions and Resilience Development Food Security Activity, … Read more

The Right to Seed: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Autonomy

Onyịnye Alheri, Onyịnye AlheriOctober 2, 2022Field, Leland, Updates

A parent carrying their infant inspects their machamba (farm) in Chemba district, Mozambique. 📸: Onyịnye Alheri, placed with the UN World Food Programme in Mozambique. Seeds are life. For as long as humans have cultivated crops, we have freely saved, stored, … Read more

Amplifying Children’s Voices to End Hunger

Liz MargolisSeptember 9, 2022Leland, Updates

Above: Elizabeth Margolis, 11th Class Leland Fellow. As a Leland Fellow with World Vision International, I have spent the last year working on advocacy to end global hunger. I have been very focused on amplifying the voices of people affected by … Read more

Stopgaps into Systems: Pandemic Adaptations for Treating Acute Malnutrition

Maria WrabelFebruary 14, 2022Leland, Updates

Above: Maria Wrabel, 10th Class Leland Fellow, and a health clinic in South Sudan. It was a typical Tuesday morning in December. My colleague and I were conducting a supervisory visit to one of Action Against Hunger USA’s nutrition sites in … Read more

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