Blog #2 - World Hunger

Ending world hunger is an achievable goal within this generation if the right strategies are adopted. Food assistance in crisis situations saves lives and is often the first step on the road to recovery. As well as safeguarding nutrition, food can also protect livelihoods and support education. In this way it is an investment in a country’s futuristic needs. Not only this, another way hunger can be stopped is providing a cup of food to children in school. By doing this you provide a nutritional safety net that keeps kids, especially girls, in school so they get an education. This is an affordable approach and it has many positive effects. Yet another way to help stop hunger is for farmers to produce more and better quality food if they have markets for it and if they have the tools and know-how to access those markets. Giving farmers these things will also improve their own lives by increasing their income. Technology is also another way to help stop the hunger. Today, in Syria, the refugees from Iraq get a voucher on a cell phone to spend in a local store. The storekeepers love it. The farmers love it. It saves money.  There are many more possibilities. To build resiliency is also important. The world’s poorest and hungriest people are also those that face the greatest risk from disasters.  It is essential to help build the resiliency of vulnerable communities so that when emergencies strike, they are strong enough to cope. Food assistance can help in this. Lastly, to end world hunger will require leadership of the sort which allowed Brazil to make huge inroads into hunger in recent years. Hunger may be the most fundamental of human problems. But it can be solved. Everything about these solutions have a decent chance of working and I hope I can contribute to this problem.