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A few cities around the country are letting drivers cover part or all of their parking fines with food donations.

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'Food For Fines': In Some Cities, Parking Tickets Drive Holiday Giving

7:03am December 05, 2015

by Regan McCarthy

A few cities around the country are letting drivers cover part or all of their fines with food donations. The idea is to turn a negative — getting a ticket — into a positive: helping others.

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How To Put Real Giving Into The Friendsgiving Feast

6:08pm November 19, 2015

by Maria Godoy

The pre-Thanksgiving potluck with friends has become increasingly popular. As long as you're reinventing tradition, a nonprofit asks, why not turn it into a fundraiser to help feed hungry kids?

A nutritionist fetches a carton of Plumpy'Nut for malnourished patients at a hospital in Burkina Faso.

In An Email, Hillary Clinton Once Wrote: 'Plumpy'Nut?' Plumpy What?

3:18pm November 05, 2015

The latest batch of Clinton emails includes a scattershot list of topics from a day in 2010: "Freud's Last Session," "Create co to own copyrights?" ... "Plumpy'nut?"

Chart: Who's Doing The Best (And Worst) Job Fighting Hunger?

The World Is Not As Hungry As You Might Think

7:00pm October 16, 2015

by Rae Ellen Bichell

A new report on world hunger says that the age of mass famines is behind us. That's the good news. Unfortunately, there's sad news, too.

A farm laborer uses a sieve to separate grains of wheat from the husk in Amritsar, India.

There Are 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Than 25 Years Ago

5:50pm June 01, 2015

by Linda Poon

That's the good news. The bad news is that there are still 795 million people who don't get enough to eat — and enough nutrients in their food.

Chef Homaro Cantu holds a tomato in the kitchen of his Chicago restaurant Moto in 2007. Haute cuisine and extreme science collided in the kitchen of Chef Cantu, who took his own life Tuesday.

National

Late Chicago Chef Sought To Open 'A New Page In Gastronomy'

10:19am April 20, 2015

by NPR Staff

A star of molecular gastronomy, Homaro Cantu, 38, took his own life this week. Cantu owned a Michelin-starred restaurant, but he also wanted to cure world hunger and improve Americans' eating habits.

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Erica Johnson prays before her meal. She volunteers at the food pantry at John Still school where three of her four children are students. She eats alone after she feeds her kids.

Beyond Free Lunch: Schools Open Food Pantries For Hungry Families

9:33pm January 15, 2015

by Julia Mitric

More than 8 million U.S. children don't get enough to eat. In Sacramento, Calif., one school is helping families cope by sending students home for the weekend with backpacks full of groceries.

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At the We Care food bank in Southeast London, customers pay 1 pound sterling, or about $1.60, for 10 items. The token payment is meant to ease customers' discomfort about having to use the food bank's services.

World News

Record Number Of Britons Are Using Food Banks

6:26pm December 23, 2014

by Ari Shapiro

Hunger has become one of the biggest issues in British society. A parliamentary report says one problem is welfare benefits, which have been cut under the conservative government.

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Ralph Roloff trims meat from a deer donated to the Help Us Stop Hunger program in State Center, Iowa in 2007.

Venison As Benison: Food Banks Score From Deer Overpopulation

4:17pm December 09, 2014

by Allison Aubrey

With the start of hunting season, wildlife managers are tackling the overabundance of deer in parks around the country. Some of that meat is being salvaged and processed to distribute to the hungry.

Celebrity chefs (from left) Jose Andres, Carla Hall and Anthony Bourdain rev up the crowd at last year's Capital Food Fight fundraising event for DC Central Kitchen. The nonprofit's fortunes have risen alongside those of its celebrity chef fans.

Anthony Bourdain And Carla Hall Turbocharge D.C.'s Hunger Fighters

2:52pm November 11, 2014

by Allison Aubrey

Celebrity chefs haven't just made us aware of the latest noshing fashions; they have also spread the word about anti-hunger initiatives like those at the innovative DC Central Kitchen.