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Economic Perspectives

Volume 12, Issue 9 -- September 2007

Complete Issue (PDF, 40 pages, 2.4 MB)

• About This Issue (PDF, 1 pages, 55 KB)
  The Editor

• Working Together to End Hunger (PDF, 5 pages, 290 KB)
  Alan Larson, Senior International Policy Adviser, Covington And Burling LLP

  Ending hunger and malnutrition requires developed and developing countries to make the right policy decisions.

  • The Green Revolution
    Excerpt From A Nobel Lecture By Norman Borlaug

    The Green Revolution has won a temporary success in man's war against hunger and deprivation.

  • Feeding the Hungry Through Biotechnology
    Rachel Cheatham And Andrew Benson, International Food Information Council

    Given limited land and the difficulties of growing food in arid and pest-infested areas and salty water, biotechnology offers one promising approach.

• Breaking the Cycle of Hunger (PDF, 4 pages, 302 KB)
  An Interview With Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, U.N. World Food Program

  The means exist to halve the number of hungry people; what is needed is the political will to accomplish this.

  • Diplomatic Stewardship of America's Aid to the Hungry
    Ambassador Gaddi H. Vasquez

    The U.S. mission to the U.N. agencies in Rome works intensively on reducing world hunger.

• Key Players in Food Aid (PDF, 3 pages, 177 KB)
  Angela Rucker, U.S. Agency For International Development

  Getting food from U.S. farms to food aid recipients in the developing world requires a number of disparate players.

• The American Farmer and U.S. Food Aid (PDF, 3 pages, 135 KB)
  Bruce Odessey, Managing Editor, eJOURNAL USA

  Congress is wrangling in its five-year farm bill over whether to allow procurement of some food aid from local markets instead of only from U.S. producers.

• Hunger: Facing the Facts (PDF, 5 pages, 263 KB)
  Bob Bell, David Kauck, Marianne Leach, And Priya Sampath, CARE

  aid helps in emergencies, but long-term, sustainable solutions are needed to achieve the goal of halving the number of hungry people.

• Southern Africa's Triple Threat (PDF, 4 pages, 268 KB)
  Jordan Dey, Director Of U.S. Relations, U.N. World Food Program

  In southern Africa, HIV/AIDS makes farmers too sick to produce food. Donors can increase the effectiveness of the medicine they are already providing by also giving stricken families enough to eat.

• Aiding Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa (PDF, 4 pages, 175 KB)
  Anne Marie Del Castillo And John Graham, Policy Advisers, U.S. Agency for International Development

  In Ethiopia, an innovative collaboration has allowed pastoralists not only to survive drought but also to rebuild their lives.

• Tackling Child Malnutrition in Coastal Bangladesh (PDF, 4 pages, 285 KB)
  Ina Schonberg, Associate Vice President, Save The Children

  Both food aid and cash aid are needed indefinitely in Bangladesh where perhaps half the 133 million people cannot afford an adequate diet.

• Additional Resources (PDF, 2 pages, 96 KB)