Join President Obama in the Fight Against Hunger

President Barack Obama has consistently supported policies that will help break the cycle of hunger and poverty for many of the one billion who go to bed hungry each night.

Sign One Table's petition and ask Obama to continue to make the fight against world hunger a top priority. Tell him how you intend to join him in that fight. After all, he can't do it alone.

Let him know you agree with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent article on the fight against world hunger in the Huffington Post, where she wrote, "We have the resources to give every person in the world the tools they need to feed themselves and their children. So the question is not whether we can end hunger. It's whether we will."

Patrick O'Neil (not verified) @ Thu, 06/18/2009 - 6:43pm

Time to end hunger and control our numbers.

Agnes (not verified) @ Mon, 06/29/2009 - 12:30pm

One way we can be sure hunger and poverty are effectively reduced is to work at empowering the people to fight hunger and poverty other than giving them food. Give a hand up other than a handout.

Ronald Brent Hippler (not verified) @ Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:00pm

If you really want to end world hunger, (and starvation) here's how:

1) Create a massive project ( the size of the Space Program) to develop an affordable desalination machine. Such a machine would end starvation, and also end the main cause of crop failures, and the main cause of waterborne diseases, and save the lives of at least 40,000 children, daily.

At present we are simply attacking the symptoms of world hunger, by sending more food to the victims and by giving them more health care clinics, at a cost of billions of dollars every year.

If we create an affordable desalination machine, we would end the main causes of world hunger, because an affordable desalination machine would provide the needed non-toxic water to grow the needed crops, particularly in the drought areas near the Equator, and stop the refugee problem that's causing the wars in the Third World, and end the waterborne diseases that are killing millions, because an affordable desalination machine would provide its owner with non-toxic drinking water, and water enough to grow the needed crops.

An affordable desalination machine would do more for world peace than any single action we could take, and mean clean healthy water would be abundant and inexpensive, and our world food crop yields would be more than sufficient to end hunger and starvation on this planet. But no, we keep addressing the symptoms of world hunger, while the obvious way to end world hunger is avoided: Let's create an affordable desalination machine NOW! To not create a massive project to create an affordable desalination machine, makes us nothing more than creators of a system of stupidity that promotes failure and massive unnecessary deaths. We must stop dealing with symptoms and start to remove the CAUSE of world hunger, and an affordable desalination machine would QUICKLY eliminate that CAUSE!

Inacio Fernando (not verified) @ Thu, 07/16/2009 - 6:34pm

we have to do something to change how the world are understanding poverty. Yes we can change Africa as conflicts place. Together we can make Africa as place can produce food to give people

Mong Mong Thun Marma (not verified) @ Sat, 07/25/2009 - 5:38pm

Dear Mr. President,

It was great that you consistently supported policies that will help break the cycle of hunger and poverty for many of the one billion who go to bed hungry each night.

Thank you very much for supported the policies. We are appreciating to you that you focused the poverty countries specially who are hungers and poverty and disadvantaged.

Hungers are will never end how do we strive and fight against them without end the live. However in the sort span of life it needs to stand the hungers and poverty peoples. It all our responsible especially those who are hungers and poverty they must aware why hungers and poverty is?

Nowadays the developed countries are focusing the Africa, Ok you can focus them but don’t forget to Asia. In Asia still remaining billions of hungers and poverty especially in Bangladesh because of huge population.

Then before in the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) of Bangladesh become more problems due to huge population and increase unemployment and uneducated because of migrated to CHT from plain land. Now we are facing thus and USAID so no focus to reduce the hungers and poverty in spite of already has special policies for indigenous communities. It is regret for the indigenous communities that they missing from the development opportunities.

Dear Mr. President and people of American should not focus to the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh? The indigenous communities’ peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts should not get opportunities to innovate their lives, etc?