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Hillary Clinton discusses global hunger
Samantha Stafford
Issue date: 10/19/09 Section: News
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack discussed global hunger and food security on World Food Day this Friday in a conference call.
The United States wants to work with partnering countries to find the underlying causes of global hunger.
Clinton and Vilsack stressed the importance of not solely giving food aid to countries, and changes that would help new programs begin to eliminate world hunger.
The changes mostly include changing the focus from food aid to research on how to increase the nutritional value of crops and how to make crops grow more effectively.
Clinton and Vilsack also stressed the importance of making a commitment with other nations to spur agricultural and economic growth.
These changes will affect the entire network of farming, from the farmers who grow and pick the crops to the scientists who study them.
Biotechnology is an important part of this new process. Scientists will be crucial in figuring out how to increase productivity as well as the nutritional value of crops.
This change in focus will also hopefully spur humanitarian assistance, so farmers can grow enough food to survive and also profit from their crops.
Vilsack explained the importance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and how it already provides technical assistance to farmers on irrigation and pest control.
"The world is looking for help in the form of experts," Vilsack explained. "They want to be more productive, they want to know more technology."
Although the U.S. is not ruling out food aid, policymakers want to take a more comprehensive approach toward solving the world's food problems.
This plan will also help build a stronger base for countries when they are hit with different forms of disaster, thus allowing them to be more economically stable and less reliant on other countries in times of need.
These changes will also help focus on maintaining natural resources, helping countries make use of the resources they have. Resource management is especially important when it comes to water, which is unavailable to many people around the world.
Clinton also stressed the importance of focusing on the women farmers who make up 70 percent of the farming community.
They hope to help these women grow more food to support their families.
The United States wants to work with partnering countries to find the underlying causes of global hunger.
Clinton and Vilsack stressed the importance of not solely giving food aid to countries, and changes that would help new programs begin to eliminate world hunger.
The changes mostly include changing the focus from food aid to research on how to increase the nutritional value of crops and how to make crops grow more effectively.
Clinton and Vilsack also stressed the importance of making a commitment with other nations to spur agricultural and economic growth.
These changes will affect the entire network of farming, from the farmers who grow and pick the crops to the scientists who study them.
Biotechnology is an important part of this new process. Scientists will be crucial in figuring out how to increase productivity as well as the nutritional value of crops.
This change in focus will also hopefully spur humanitarian assistance, so farmers can grow enough food to survive and also profit from their crops.
Vilsack explained the importance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and how it already provides technical assistance to farmers on irrigation and pest control.
"The world is looking for help in the form of experts," Vilsack explained. "They want to be more productive, they want to know more technology."
Although the U.S. is not ruling out food aid, policymakers want to take a more comprehensive approach toward solving the world's food problems.
This plan will also help build a stronger base for countries when they are hit with different forms of disaster, thus allowing them to be more economically stable and less reliant on other countries in times of need.
These changes will also help focus on maintaining natural resources, helping countries make use of the resources they have. Resource management is especially important when it comes to water, which is unavailable to many people around the world.
Clinton also stressed the importance of focusing on the women farmers who make up 70 percent of the farming community.
They hope to help these women grow more food to support their families.
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clopha deshotel
clopha deshotel
posted 10/20/09 @ 8:57 AM EST
The FAO calls it "fish protein concentrate" but I have learned that it is also called Fish Powder. It could be made from under-utilized less marketed species but here is a lead worth following up on:
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From: Mark Herrmann
To: clopha deshotel
Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:58:42 PM
Subject: RE: any updates since this 2004 article???
Nope, not to my knowledge. (Continued…)
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