12 Myths About Hunger
For an updated version of this backgrounder go to http://www.foodfirst.org/12myths
Why so much hunger?
What can we do about it?
To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.
Myth 1
Not Enough Food to Go Around
12 Myths About Hunger
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Updated by Holly Poole-Kavana based on the book World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Why so much hunger?
What can we do about it?
To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.
Myth 1:
Not Enough Food to Go Around
183 Civil Society Groups Urge President Obama and the U.S. Congress to Curb Food Speculation to Address the Urgent Hunger Crisis
Letter demands immediate action to prevent a repeat of last year's food price crisis
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March 24, 2009
Contact: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
510-654-4400 ext 227 or 510-502-5050
Beyond the Food Bank
As food insecurity has increased in the United States the demand for food banks, pantries, and shelters has also developed and expanded. Although food banks are a vital emergency and safety net that keeps the hunger crisis at bay by providing food to people who would otherwise go hungry, they cannot address the root causes that perpetuate and exacerbate hunger in America today. Instead, our growing reliance on food banks may distract us from finding lasting solutions to the hunger crisis.
Civil Society Recommendations for U.S. Leadership at the Rome World Summit on Food Security
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November 13, 2009
To: Alonzo L. Fulgham
Acting Administrator and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development
Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C., 20523-1000
Call for U.S. Leadership at the World Summit on Food Security
Crisis: Global Hunger
The Whiteside Forum presents: "Crisis: Global Hunger"
Moderator: Dr. William Parsons
Professor, Chair of Political Science and Leadership Studies at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
Keynote speaker:
John M. Staatz
Professor, Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI speaking on
"Food Security: Why are so many people hungry in the world, and what can be done about it?"
Panel and speakers:
John E. Peck
Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders, Madison, WI
Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium - Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
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Fact Sheet: Food Aid in the New Millenium
Genetically Engineered Food and Foreign Assistance
Disturbing evidence has come to light which suggests that US taxpayer dollars are being used through foreign assistance programs to subsidize the export of genetically engineered (GE) foods to the Third World and to finance GE research. This raises very serious ethical questions about our foreign aid dollars.