“For too long, our primary response [to fight hunger] has been to send emergency [food] aid when the crisis is at its worst,” Ms Clinton said last month. “This saves lives, but it doesn’t address hunger’s root causes. It is, at best, a short-term fix.”
-from FT, as G8 plans to announce new initiative to increase investment in farming to developing world
I can't say that hunger prevention is something I know much about, but what Mrs. Clinton has said above sounds logical to me. Like that Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life." I hope that this initiative will not only battle hunger, but also will also lead to economic development.
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The Chicago Council on Global Affairs published a study about that earlier this year coming to the same conclusion: There should be more investment in agricultural education. You can find the whole report here: http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/taskforce_details.php?taskforce_id=11
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