CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of Americans receiving emergency food from the largest U.S. hunger-relief charity and its partners rose 46 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report released on Tuesday. "Feeding America" said 37 million people, including 14 million children, needed emergency food aid each year, more than 10 percent of the U.S. population of 300 ...

Yum Brands, operator of KFC, Taco Bell and other major restaurant chains, on Thursday said it is directing $500,000 from its program World Hunger Relief to provide food for earthquake victims in Haiti. The World Hunger Relief program, which distributes funds Yum has raised as well as ...

While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition. The World Food Program and UNICEF have launched a project to feed thousands of mothers and children — some too weak to cry. Aid workers ...

Failed seasonal rains across East Africa will drive millions of people to hunger and poverty unless swift action is taken, an aid group said Thursday. Oxfam said some areas had received less than 5 percent of the normal November rains and that many people are malnourished ...