if you have one hour
Our generation can build a world without hunger.
Send Obama a photo message. Show him your commitment and ask him to make freedom from hunger a top priority.
- Take a picture of yourself with a message that says “YES WE CAN end world hunger!” Get creative. Scribble it on your hand. Write it on a blackboard. Spell it out with food. You’re in charge.
- Write a few lines to tell Obama why you think the fight to end world hunger is important and exactly how you intend to take action and join the fight too. After all, he can’t do it alone.
In Depth
The U.S. has formally committed to ending world hunger several times in recent decades. As far back as the 1974 World Food Conference, the U.S. joined other governments and set a goal to end hunger within a decade. Almost 35 years later and after several other international efforts, 963 million people in the world remain hungry, according the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Over the course of 2008, high prices for staples such as rice and corn drove thousands into the streets to protest when they could no longer afford the things they eat every day. When food prices double or triple, they threaten to erase the economic gains made by millions of people around the world and make it much harder to feed themselves and their families.
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The UN Millennium Development Goals aim to cut hunger in half by 2015. Strong U.S. leadership, a comprehensive national strategy to fight world hunger and political support from the White House, Congress and multiple government agencies will be necessary to meet that target.
Currently, U.S. programs focused on hunger are spread over more than a half dozen agencies. A White House Office on Global Hunger and coordinator to draft, implement and oversee a comprehensive plan to fight world hunger on several fronts is essential. A comprehensive national strategy should include:
- Strong emergency related activities to help populations affected by war, conflict, natural disasters and severe economic distress when they most need it
- Broad nutrition programs that include safety nets to serve at-risk groups such as children and the elderly
- Support for agriculture and assistance to help small farmers increase production
- Wide ranging improvements to markets and infrastructure, from access to financial services to better roads and processing facilities
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Timm (not verified) @ Thu, 06/04/2009 - 11:06am
If the reports below are true, when will Obama's actions begin to square with his rhetoric? In his book, THE CASE AGAINST BARRACK OBAMA, David Freddoso reports that Obama demonstrated his commitment to old-style politics by his repeated endorsements of Chicago's machine politicians, and refused to support reformers from both parties in the 2006 election who were committed to ending corruption in Chicago's Cook County government.