"April 30, 2009"
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Experts Debate Solutions for Hunger

Panelists encourage individuals to take up action to end world hunger

Published On 4/30/2009 12:42:26 AM

By ROXANNE J. FEQUIERE

Contributing Writer


Global health experts addressed the potentially devastating implications of
global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a
symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening.

Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of
Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant
director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in
economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach.

Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food
that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner.

“Now just imagine if one out of every six of us here in the room didn’t have
enough to eat, but could not access any of that leftover food,” he said.
“Well, that really is the world today.”

After citing several causes of worldwide hunger, including famine, poverty,
and natural disaster, Zucker offered his thoughts on how to address the
situation.

“Dream big, invest significantly, apply technological know-how and political
will,” he said.

Anita McGahan, professor of management at the University of Toronto,
presented the difficulties of achieving proper levels of sustenance
worldwide to the half-filled Science Center auditorium.

Citing age distribution projections, McGahan said that the global hunger
situation would likely be exacerbated in the future as resources are
diverted towards growing masses of wealthy elderly and away from
impoverished regions elsewhere.

Richard Leach, senior advisor for public policy at the Friends of the World
Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian organization that combats
hunger, praised the students in the audience for demonstrating their
interest in global health.

Leach commended the strides the United States has made in assisting
impoverished nations, but warned that “progress is being threatened” by a
lack of communication in Congress.

Robert Paarlberg, a political science professor at Wellesley and an
associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, drew a
distinction between the emergency aid that the United States effectively
distributes on a periodic basis versus the sustained assistance that Africa
needs.

“Even when international food crises are low, we can’t lose sight of the
underlying problem of persistent hunger,” he said.

When asked about ways to tackle the issue of global hunger on a local level,
Zucker said, “Individuals need to be the voice. Speak loudly.”


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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:54:26 GMT, "Edmund Fitzgerald"
wrote:

"April 30, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 0 quiet"

bzzzt... but their is one on near side of sun.. #1016
near the equator on the far right hand side..

NEW: Spotless Days
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