ERIC ED356983: Who's Involved with Hunger: An Organization Guide for Education and Advocacy. Fifth Edition.

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Kutzner, Patricia L.
AUTHOR
Who's Involved with Hunger: An Organization Guide for
TITLE
Education and Advocacy. Fifth Edition.
Bread for the World Inst. on Hunger and Development,
INSTITUTION
Washington, DC.; World Hunger Education Service,
Washington, DC.
ISBN-0-9628058-8-2
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PUB DATE
92
58p.; For previous editions, see ED 247 161 and ED
NOTE
270 334.
Reference Materials
Bibliographies (131)
PUB TYPE
MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.
EDRS PRICE
*Advocacy; Annotated Bibliographies; *Federal
DESCRIPTORS
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)
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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.
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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.
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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 Policy
Research Institute. New
address effective July 1,
1992: 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20036-3097.
Telephone and fax numbers
unchanged.
Page 33--Overseas Development
Council. New address effdctive
June 29, 1992: 1875 Connecticut
Avenue, NW, Suite 1012,
Washington, DC 20009. Telephone
and fax numbers unchanged.
Published by
World Hunger Education Service
and Bread for the World Institute on Hunger and Development
Washington, D.C.
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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. [phone].
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements
vi
Preface: How to Use This Book
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
26
Religious Education/Action Programs
Voluntary Development Aid
27
Policy Oriented Research & Advocacy
31
34
Global Focus: Canadian Organizations
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
48
Index of Non-Governmental Organizations
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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 use of natural resources versus exploitive abuse? Clearly germane to a
sustainable world food supply as well as to sustainable livelihoods. Population growth? Critical in both the employment
question and sustainable use of natural resources. The status of children? Hunger hurtseven killschildren most of all.
The status of women? Profoundly influences, and is affected by, all of the above.
Now: How to use this book.
Are you looking for a grant? You won't find it through this book, although some of the organizations here might have some
tips. Better still, get some pointers from the Foundation Center in New York City, San Frarcisco, or Washington, D.C.
Do you want to volunteer in Africa or Appalachia? This book alone won't tell you how, but a few organizations in it do
use qualified volunteers and at least two--Global Exchange and Institute for Food and Development Policy--publish books
about volunteer opportunities.
Are you a job seeker? Career counselors in colleges and universities find Who's Involved With Hunger useful in the field
of international development, agricultural economics, social change, political advocacy and a raft of related possiblities, and
they should know (even though that isn't its intended purpose).
Are you a teacher or college instructor? And are you looking for materials you can use to teach about developing countries,
hunger, sustainable agriculture, economic alternatives, etc.? Good! This book is for you.
Are you (or would you like to be) an activist? And are you looking for training in food and poverty-related social change,
community development, or political advocacy, or for technical assistance, or for colleagues with whom to brainstorm about
strategies or form a coalition? Good! This book is definitely for you.
Are you a policy-oriented researcher? And is your topic related to food policy, poverty elimination, global interdependence,
a developing region, etc., because you are a college student, a journalist, assisting a member of congress, or for any other
reason whatsoever? Good! This book is for you, too.
Are you trying to find out "what's going on out there" among activist researchers, practitioners, and policy advocates?
Because (a) your boss needs to know and expects you to find out or (b) you want to know for your own sake? Good! You're
starting in the right place.
There are two ways to proceed:
One way is to scan the table of contents and then begin to browse in the section that seems most likely to serve your purpose.
This method is for someone who is looking for a certain kind of action (research? public information? legislative advocacy?
group organizing? direct assistance?) or a certain kind of information (research report? newsletter? video? for a general
audience? for a third grade class?) and wants it from a certain kind of organization (U.N. agency? U.S. government agency?
religious denomination? citizens' organization? national? local? in Canada?).
The other way to proceed is to check the index. This is the method for someone who already knows the name of an organization
she/he wants to find and who doesn't want to spend much time browsing to find it.
Incidentally, this second method will work only if the organization in question is nongovernmental and only if it operates at
the national or international level. Local U.S. organizations are not indexed; look for them by state in the last section of the
book.
U.S. federal agencies and congressional committees are easy to find by alphabetical listing alone, but locating a particular
U.N. or other inter-governmental agency takes imagination. These are divided into groups according to focus; start with the
introduction to the U.N. section.
No matter how you plan to use this book, one final word of advice: Browse a lot. Scan all sections of the book, including
ones you don't expect to be useful. Interesting and surprising connections are guaranteed.
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U.N. / General
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UNITED NATIONS / INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
The UN Economic and Social Council is named throughout by the acronym ECOSOC. Selected agencies of the United Nations system,
offices of the UN. Secretariat, and a few inter-governmental organizations outside the U.N. system are grouped here in five categories: I.
United Nations SecretariatGeneral; 11. Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Environment; III. Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs;
IV. Women and Development; V. Economic Development.
The United Nations Handbook (ISSN 0110-1951) published annually by the New Zealand' Ministry of External Relations and Trade offers
further information. Order from the Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations, I United Nations Plaza, New York, New
York 10017; [phone]; price, $15.
1. United Nations Secretariat
General
United Nations Information Operator, New York: [phone].
United Nations Publications Sales Section, UN, New York, NY 10017; [phone]. UN Book Store, [phone].
Dag Hammerskold Library, Documents Reference Desk, UN, New York, NY 10017; [phone].
United Nations Information Office/Washington, 1889 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; [phone].
Department or Public Information (DPI)
Headquarters: United Nations, New York, NY 10017. Public Inquiries: [phone]. Information Programme on Environment and
Development: [phone], Julie I. Thompson, Project Manager. Video & Film Department: [phone]. Publications: Africa
Recovery (4/year, $20, institutions $35; 212-963-6857); Development Forum (6/year, $25; 212-963. 8066); UN Chronicle (4/year, $20,
institutions $28; 212-963-8262).
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS)
Address in U.S.: 2 UN Plaza, Room 1103, New York, NY 10017; [phone]; Barbara Adams, Senior Program Officer. Headquarters:
Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; telephone [phone]; Tony Hill, NGLS Coordinator. Publications: An NGO
Guide to Trade and Finance in the Multilateral ..ystern ($5); E & D File 1992 (UNCED issue briefs, free); Women in Development (issue
briefs, free); Go-Between (free newsletter, write Susan Bovay, editor, NGLS-Geneva); more.
United Nations Statistical Division
Address: 2 UN Plaza, New York, NY.10017; [phone]; William Seltzer, Director. Statistical Library: [phone]. Publications;
UN Women's Indicators and Statistics Microcomputer Database,WISTAT (diskettes by region or all 178 countries); The World's Women
1970-1990: Trends and Statistics (135 pp., $19.95 from UN Publications Sales Section); more.
II. Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Environment
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (1971)
Headquarters: CGIAR Secretariat, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433; [phone]; Alexander von der Osten,
Executive Secretary. Publications: Annual Report (free) & other reports; see also IFPRI, DTA and IRRI publications below. hi Association
of approximately 50 countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations that coordinate funding and general policy
for 13 international agricultural research centers (IARCs) in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Italy, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria,
Peru, Philippines, Syria, and U.S.; seeks to improve food production and consumption in developing countries; co-sponsored by World Bank,
FAO, and UNDP.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1945)
Address in U.S.: North America Liaison Office, 1001 22nd Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC. 20437; [phone]; James Hill,
Acting Director. Librarian: Marva Coats. Headquarters: Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy; central telephone operator (39-6)
5797-1; Edouard Saouma, Director-General. Publications: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture (3/year, free); Ceres: the FAO Review (6/year,
$24); food outlook (12/year, free, limited distribution); Development Education Exchange Papers (6/year, published by Freedom from
Hunger Campaign/Action for Development program, free); State of Food and Agriculture (annual, $50, distributed by UNIPUB, 301 -459 -
7666); more. # Conducts research, provides technical assistance, disseminates information; founded to improve levels of nutrition worldwide,
raise rural standards of living, and improve the production and distribution of all, -Agricultural, fisheries and forestry products; 157 member
nations; field missions in most developing countries.
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U.N. / Food
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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (1975)
Headquarters: 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036; [phone]; Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director-General.
Publications: IFPRI Report (newsletter 3 /year, free); IFPRI Report 1991 (1992, etc., annual report, free); Improving Food Security of the
Poor: Concept, Policy and Programs (1992) & many other reports (free; student requests require instructor's endorsement). # Conducts
social science research to identify and analyze national and international policy options for improving the food situation of low-income
countries and peoples.
International Fund for
Agricultural.
Development (WAD) (1974)
Addresses in U.S.: UN Liaison Office, United Nations, New York, NY 10017; [phone]; Kate Starr Newell, Director. North America
Liaison Office, 1889 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; [phone]; Vera Gathright, Liaison Officer. Headquarters: 107 Via del
Serafico, 00142 Rome, Italy; telephone [phone]; Idriss Jaztiry, President. Publications: Annual Report (free); The Report on Rural
Women living in Poverty (1992, fee); more. # Channels development assistance to projects that improve food consumption and income
generation by increased agricultural productivity and other enterprises exclusively among the rural poor in the moat disadvantaged areas.
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) (1967)
Address in U.S.: c/o CGIAR above. Headquarters: Oyo Road, PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria; telephone: [phone]-400318; Lukas
Ender, Director-General. Information Services Director: Stephen M. Lawani. International mailing address: c/o L.W. Lambourn & Co.,
Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR9 3EE, England; telephone [phone]. Publications: IITA Research (2/year, free);
Development of Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems in Africa & other Distinguished African Scientist Lecture Series papers (free).
# One of the CGIAR centers; specializes in sustainable food crop production hi the West African ecology.
International Rice Research Institute (TRRI) (1960)
Address hi U.S.: c/o CGIAR above. Headquarters: P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philippines. Publications: Publications of the International
Agricultural Research and Development Centers: 1989 edition & 1990 Supplement (1989, US$10 plus $3 surface mail or $10 airmail; 1990,
$6 plus $1 surface mail or $5 airmail). # Oldest of the 13 centers supported by CGIAR.
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (1968)
Note: Independent, not in the UN system.
Address in U.S.: None. Headquarters: 34 chemin des Colombettes, Geneva, Switzerland; (41-22) 7309111; Dr. Arpad Bogsch, Secretary-
General. # Established by an international convention among governments wanting to protect"inventof s" patent rights for new plant varieties
obtained through genetic research and biotechnology; an independent inter-governmental organization but works closely with the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that was created similarly outside the UN but became a UN specialized agency by act of the
General Assembly in 1974; UPOV and WIPO share same director and address.
International Wheat Council (NYC) (1947)
Note: Independent, not in the UN system.
Address in U.S.: None. Headquarters: 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AE, United Kingdom; telephone:[phone];
Daniel Amstutz, Executive Secretary. # Association of major grain exporting and importing countries; serves as secretariat of the Food Aid
Convention (agreements among donor nations, with State Department representing the U.S.) and the Wheat Trade Convention ("fair trade"
regulations, with Department of Agriculture representing the U.S.).
UN Administrative Committee on Coordination, Subcommittee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN) (1977)
Address in U.S.: do Dr. Abraham Horwitz, ACC/SCN Chairman, Pan American Health Organization, 525 Twenty-third Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20037; [phone]. Headquarters: ACC/SCN Secretariat, Room X48, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 20,
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; telephone [phone]; Dr. John B. Mason, Technical Secretary. Publications: ACC /SCN News
(2/year, free); Managing Successful Nutrition Programmes, Nutrition anti Population, & other reports ($20 each). # Representatives from
all UN agencies concerned with human nutrition; focal point for harmonizing nutrition policies and activities within UN system.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (1972)
Addresses in U.S.: UN Liaison Office, Two UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017; [phone]; Noel J. Brown, Director. kegional Office
of North America, 1889 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; [phone]; Joan Martin-Brown, Chief. Headquarters: P.O. Box 30522,
Nairobi, Kenya; telephone [phone]; Mostafa Kamal Tolba, Executive Director. Publications: North America News (free from NY
Office); Our Planet (limited distribution from Nairobi). # Promotes international cooperation on world environment problems and provides
policy guidance within UN system.
World Food Council (WFC) (1974)
Address in U.S.: UN Liaison Office, UN, New York, NY 10017; [phone]; Kate Starr Newell, Officer -in- Charge. Headquarters: Via
dello Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy, telephone [phone]; Gerald Ion Trant, Executive Director. Information Office: (39-6)