College of Western Idaho
Multi-Genre Project
Millenium Development Goals
“Eradicating Hunger and Starvation”
Ron Zechmann
290373
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
May 12, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
INTRODUCTION
Ron Zechmann
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
May 12,2011
ronzechmann@mycwi.cc
Introduction to Multi-Genre Project
This year began with a lot of decisions regarding what the topic to my project would be. The choices were very difficult in deciding which Millennium Developmental Goal (MDG) to choose. I decided to go with the goal to eradicate hunger and starvation. Originally I thought this would be fairly easy, I was wrong.
The following project took me the entire Spring Semester; I wrote about Local hunger issues that are affecting our society. I then wrote about the global epidemic in the Sahara Africa region, as well as designing a brochure explaining what needs to be done to ratify this growing problem.
I took the scholarly approach in completing these assignments and I would like to thank you in advance for taking the time to look at the information. I would like you as a reader to think about the problem at hand and think how does this affect me? Does helping our local people help us, or does helping on a global level save lives? After you read these works, I would like you to take an approach and reflect within your own society either it be locally or globally but take a stance to help the less fortunate.
TO SEE
To see a starving child
To see a desperate parent
To see a tear fall down a cheek
To see a sadness, and despair
To see disease, and infection
To see a rising epidemic
Wake UP!,
We actually need to see the real problem is...
Starvation and hunger is a global problem that we
As a society has to address to solve
WHERE AM I FROM
Zechmann-1
Ron Zechmann
English 102
Leslie Jewkes
March 12, 2011
Where I am From
I am a husband and father of ten; beginning at 12:00am on March 12nd, 2011, this is a day in my life. As I am still awake I look at the clock, it shows ; I think to myself, “WOW, I can never get to bed before ”. At this point, before I can even think about going to bed I still have to pull and give life saving heart medication to our two year old foster child in which is administered through her G-tube, this is a daily occurrence. After I give her medication to her I can then take my shower and get ready to go to bed. Finally I get to lie down; the last thing I remember before dozing off is the clock reading . Three hours later, I awake to a noise, a loud bang, like something hitting the floor. I go down stairs to see what was going on, there I see our 19 year old adopted daughter who is profoundly handicapped in our pantry throwing canned food on the floor and spilling fruit punch everywhere in the pantry. I quickly stop her destruction, cleaned up the mess, and put her back in bed. I then go back upstairs to hear my one year old son fussing in his bed. I pick him up and place him in bed next to my wife; he snuggles in and returns to sleep very quickly. I have no qualms about getting up nightly since my wife has to deal with this throughout the day.
7:00am the alarm goes off for me to get up from my short nights rest, I have to now get the older kids up so they can get ready for school, and I have to get ready for work. Around I drop two of the girls off at the junior high, then proceeding to take the two older girls to the high school. The next thing on my agenda is to return home to pick up the nine year old and the 4 year old to take them to their schools. It is now I arrive at work with a full schedule, “looks like I won’t be off until late today”, I think to myself.
It is now quitting time, the clock reads and by this point in the day I am actually exhausted. I get in my car and start towards home; I pick up my cell phone and call my wife to let her know I am on my way. On the other end of the line she asks, “Could you please stop at the store and pick up milk for dinner”. I replied, “sure and I love and miss you”, I finally arrive home, it is now and dinner is almost ready; for me there isn’t any rest or relaxation after work. While waiting for dinner I give marching orders to the crew for setting the table, then my attention shifts to give my two year old and one year old sons for some love and affection. Immediately following dinner my nine year old and I sit down to work on her homework together, we work on her spelling, her math, and her daily reading. By all the kids have gone to bed, and now I get to sit down with my wife and relax for just a little while before starting my own homework.
This is just a sample day of my life as being a husband and a father of ten, I love my life, and it is fantastic. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
INTERVIEW WITH SHAWN REDDING
INTERVIEW WITH SHAWN REDDING
Ron: Shawn thank you for meeting with me today.
Shawn: My pleasure
Ron: Regarding our conversation on the telephone, I was letting you know that I was doing a research paper regarding the radification of hunger and starvation from a local level.
Shawn: Yes, I do recall the conversation
Ron: Shawn, do you enjoy working at the Idaho Food Bank and Soup Kitchen?
Shawn: Yes, it is very rewarding to know that when I have time I can give back to my community.
Ron: Very nice, I commend you on your efforts, I would like to ask you a question, How does it make you feel when you see people come to you for food and especially children?
Shawn: It breaks my heart to see so many people come in here that are hungry and starving. I hate seeing the children come through my line and I can’t help but give those kids extra pudding or dessert just to make them smile.
Ron: Thank you for that answer, Do you see any real relief in this problem?
Shawn: no, there would have to be a lot more community involvement for there to be a dramatic change.
Ron: I totally agree, well I told you this would not take long and I only had a couple of questions, Thank you for your time.
Shawn: No problem I hope I helped and could give my opinion of this problem.
INTERVIEW WITH MARCH GOULD
INTERVIEW WITH MARCH GOULD
Ron: March, thank you for meeting with me today, as you recall our discussion about my research paper. I would just like to ask you a few questions?
March: Yes Ron, I do recall our conversation and I would love to answer your questions to best of my ability.
Ron: How do you feel about the PCS program?
March: The PCS program is a necessity in our community to help reduce the number of kids that are placed into group homes and/or orphanages.
Ron: I also agree. Have you seen children taken away from their families due to not having enough food
March: All the time, other than physical abuse, the next largest cause for children being removed is neglect from malnourishment.
Ron: Wow, that is very sad
March: Yes it is, some of the things I see are very scary and frightening, but my job is very rewarding when I get to see people like you and your wife taking in these children and giving them a home and a great environment to grow up in.
Ron: Thank you. Well I did tell you that I wouldn’t keep you long, I want to thank you for your time.
March: No problem, any time.
LOCAL ESSAY
College of Western Idaho
Idaho Hunger
A Growing Problem
Ron Zechmann
290373
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
March 8, 2011
Ron Zechmann
Local Research Essay
English 102 034W
17 February 2011
Idaho Hunger
Today’s world has changed so much in the last ten years. There have been so many things that have changed within the United States of America and even in the individual state of Idaho. Talking about how far this problem actually extends, it stretches to the vast devastation and disaster in Haiti. The problem of the hungry is even here in the U.S.as well. An example of a disaster in our own country is with the terrorist attacks on the Trade Center. The disasters that we see in the world and locally there is one thing that is a constant, and that is the fact that there are children starving and dying from malnutrition, the shortage of good drinking water, and the lack of financial support to feed these children Unfortunately this problem has been around for decades and as much as the hunger organizations try to help—it just seems to never be enough. The sad thing is that the growing number of children that go without food is rising in an alarming rate. As a community we need to come together to eradicate the problem and help these children not only around the world but right here in Idaho. Becoming educated about this problem is the most important step and taking action is the next step for the eradication of fighting hunger.
Speaking locally, in Idaho there are many organizations and government agencies that are there to help these children. Ismael Hernandez who is a social worker for child protective services of Idaho for the offices of Health and Welfare states, “As much as we try to help these children and to place them into foster care to provide a safe and nourishing environment, it just isn’t enough. With the increasing rise of meth producers and people using meth the system is being flooded with children. Also with the increase of people losing their jobs and housing is also contributing to the increase of children being placed into the system”. Ismael has been employed by the Department of Health and Welfare for 12 years as a social worker.
Another organization that deals with this growing problem is the Idaho Food Bank. The Idaho Food Bank serves food to hundreds of people and a sad reality is that the vast majority are children, or single mothers that are homeless or displaced due to the economy with no-place to go. Shawn Redding who is a volunteer at the Idaho Food Bank said, “It breaks my heart to see so many people come in here that are hungry and starving. I hate seeing the children come through my line and I can’t help but give those kids extra pudding or dessert just to make them smile”. There is so much more to this problem than anyone really knows. As a community and a society there are many ways that can help the cause to save these children and/or their parents. In the November 2010 issue of Redbook they actually put together a good plan for us to contribute to this epidemic with an individual effort, The article had to deal with ten ways to feed a neighbor in need. Some of these ways are, to organize a food drive. They provide as much as one third of the food as pantries do. You can host a school, church, or community bake sale, and donate the proceeds to the Great American Bake Sale and in turn they distribute food to the community for the poor and poverty. The article also states that us as individuals need to support our local food banks. There is a staggering statistic, “Enough all ready! 49 million Americans are going hungry -- a 36 percent increase since 2008, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture” (Redbook Nov 2010).
Another organization that contributes to the relief aid of these children is also through Idaho Health and Welfare, and that is the Personal Care Services (PCS). The PCS program places children into homes with providers that are certified with Health and Welfare and also have foster care licenses. The duties of being a PCS provider are: you are placed with children that have been removed from their parents due to neglect, malnutrition, abuse, and in some cases these children have some behavior as well as mental issues. Children can also be placed by the parents or guardians as well, parents that place their children into a PCS home mainly out of love for their children. They actually realize that caring for their children may not be in their best interest or in the child’s best interest. Many times these providers must also take in medically fragile children. The children that enter these homes can vary from being just homeless, parentless, having mental illness, or having a physical illness. No matter how you look at it; this program is taking children from being a statistic and are actually giving them a chance at life. March Gould who is a nurse with Multi-care in Nampa Idaho states, “The PCS program is a necessity in our community to help reduce the number of kids that are placed into group homes and/or orphanages”.
There are many steps that need to be taken, and by taking these steps we can contribute to a bigger role in our children and their futures. By supporting an active role in helping to feed the children and to provide housing for them will ultimately keep these children from getting diseases and sicknesses that could kill them. As a society there is a need to save as many children that we can. So they can have proper essentials that are required to thwart off infectious diseases, there needs to be proper sanitation, drinking water and these kids need to have a chance to grow up instead of facing a future of uncertainty.
There are ways to reduce the hungry, and that is to research ways to feed them in a cost effective way. A lot of these methods are through agriculture. There is an article from The Targeted News Service and the article is directly dealing with the issue of reducing hunger. The article is about Reducing Hunger through Climate smart agriculture. One thing stated in this article is,” We will not achieve food security without serious investment in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the rural sector," It shows how our investment needs to be a serious one to achieve the goal of feeding the hungry”(The Targeted News Service, December 9, 2010). To make a brighter future for children and adults alike there needs to be a lot of attention towards agriculture and how food can be changed to grow in harsher climates, due to extreme: heat, cold, wind, and moisture.
As a society there are so many complaints about the problems in the world and locally with our children that are starving. Until there is a united stand with everyone joining in to take a stand against this epidemic nothing will ever change and the number of starving children will continue to rise. It really doesn’t matter what disaster or devastation occurs. As a community everyone has to band together and promote programs that will support the eradication of the hungry and starving in the United States of America and within the state of Idaho. There needs to be active roles taken with local food banks, church and community food drives, and there needs to be a larger volunteer support for these organizations. There also needs to be more support for local programs that take in children to provide a better way of life for them, and the government needs to pass legislation to increase incentives for farmers to increase agricultural development “Policies should shift from prioritizing food aid to providing poor farmers with access to training, markets and to farm inputs such as fertilizer and improved seed. In addition to being cheaper, such investments allow farmers to grow food to feed themselves, to sell the surplus and to diversify into high-value crops, livestock and tree products. This creates a sustainable exit from the poverty trap, thereby decreasing the requirement for aid. This is in support to provide more support to the poor farmer and to provide a way of life to get out of the poverty trap.” (Pedro A Sanchez).
Eradication of the hungry is not a pipe dream, it can be obtained and it can become reality with the proper support from within each community and through the support both with policies and financial from the government. By working together, this problem and epidemic can be dealt with in a positive manner. It would be great to see the astonishing numbers of hungry be cut in half with just improving farming. This can be a reality, but it will take everyone to make it happen.
Works Cited
Gould, March. Personal Interview. February 7, 2011.
Hernandez, Ismael. Personal Interview.Department of Health and Welfare. February 5,2011.
Redding, Shawn. Personal Interview.Idaho Food Bank. February 1, 2011
MOVIE ESSAY
MOVIE ANALYSIS PAPER
Sahara
Submitted to
Leslie Jewkes
English 102 034W
College of Western Idaho
Prepared by
Ron Zechmann
ronzechmann@mycwi.cc
Ron Zechmann
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
Movie Essay Rough Draft
March 20, 2011
SAHARA AFRICA
Imagine sitting in a small, wood boat going up a river with a small powered motor. You are going at a slow paced speed, taking in the sights of Africa. As you are trolling up the River Niger you notice how murky and dirty the water is, you ask the guide why the river is so dirty. The guide answers back, it is due to the pollution that tourists dump into the river as well as oil and gasoline from the many boats that travel the river. Then your attention is drawn toward the East side shore and there is a little girl scooping the water from the river into a bucket. You again ask the guide what she is doing and he again responded with an answer. He says that the little girl is getting water for her village for washing and drinking. The thought that runs through your head is, “How can they drink this water?” This brings up the concern for this area of the world. What kind of living conditions do these people have if they are relying on washing and drinking dirty, murky water from the River Niger? How are these people surviving under these extreme conditions? And how are they dealing with disease and proper hygiene when they are drinking parasite infested and polluted water?
The movie “Sahara” is a good example of the things that happen along the River Niger. Even though the movie is fiction and it isn’t based on a true story, there is a lot to learn from this movie with regards to what happens in the real world, not just in the Hollywood realm. The movie itself is entertaining for the most part. The movie starts off with action and suspense as a good action film does. This film does not address the topic of starvation or hunger, but it depicts treasure hunters on a search for lost treasure that leads them to the River Niger. As the movie progresses and the action takes itself to Africa in the Sahara, Dirk Pitt, played by Matthew McConaughy, and his sidekick, (of course there is always a sidekick in these types of movies), come across Eva Rojas, played by Penelope Cruz, a doctor trying to find the cause of a plague that is affecting the villages along the river. The plague that is described in the movie was the result of mass pollution to the water supply in the well aquifer and from the river itself. This was interesting to find out since the pollution was coming from a tycoon that was storing chemical waste and the containers were leaking into the earth and ultimately into the Aquifer.
The stars of the show must now fight off the tycoon to save the people of Africa and ultimately the world. I am not sure this is even a possibility of ever happening, and there isn’t a lot of information to back it up or to make it completely false. One thing for sure it is possible for the villages to break out of poverty with the right aid and support.
“The battle against global hunger vulnerability is winnable today, more than ever before. An important step toward ending hunger is empowering farmers in the developing world to contribute further to local and regional food needs. Initiatives like Sierra Leone's Operation Feed the Nation are training subsistence farmers to increase crop yields. This is an article that also supports showing the poor farmer ways to break out of the poverty trap with proper assistance” (Josette Sheeran).
This movie really wasn’t what I was actually looking for in this project but it did answer some questions. Do we need to take a more active role in providing a better way of life for the people in Africa? The answer is: Yes. How do the people there survive? They drink poor water and they don’t have the education to filter or distill it. As a society we have the ability to help these people and make their lives better and more fulfilling. The solution is easy: provide a better farming system and in the process teach them how to purify their water and then disease and plagues will diminish. Their health and their life expectancy will dramatically increase. To eradicate hunger and starvation in this region should be a realistic goal and as a society we can accomplish it.
Works Cited
Sahara. Dir. Breck Eisner. Perf. Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz. Paramount Pictures. 2005
GLOBAL ESSAY
College of Western Idaho
World Hunger
A Growing Epidemic
Ron Zechmann
290373
English 102 034W
Leslie Jewkes
May 1, 2011
Ron Zechmann
Global Issue Essay
English 102 034W
April 17, 2011
Global Issue Essay
Looking at the many problems that people face in the world today, the most damaging is starvation and hunger with the youth of the world and in the United States. The most important thing that needs to be addressed within the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is eradicating hunger and starvation in the world. With the help of the European Union (EU) this can be done in a timely manner.
“The European Union (EU) strongly supports the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, and notably the first MDG, which aims to eradicate poverty and hunger. An immediate target is the halving of the proportion of people suffering from hunger between 1990 and 2015”. This will show how not only the U.S. but the EU is involved with MDG to lower the poverty rate in the world (Anonymous, Foreign Policy).
The most effective way of lowering the poverty rate and in turn that will lower the starvation and hunger rate as well is to focus on agricultural development. The most effective way to have a significant change with agriculture is to educate, train, and assist the people in the target area.
The most important step is to educate the farmers of the target areas in improving their farming techniques and to reduce greenhouse gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere.
“By climate smart, we mean agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience to environmental pressures, while at the same time reduces greenhouse gas emissions or removes them from the atmosphere, because we cannot ignore the fact that agriculture is itself a large emitter of greenhouse gases” (Anonymous, Western Farm Press).
This is a step on how smarter agriculture can reduce greenhouse gasses and be beneficial to producing more food so solve world hunger. This is so very important in solving this global epidemic, plus it reduces pollutants that would normally go into the air.
Educating farmers on more efficient and better ways to farm is very important, but education doesn’t mean anything without the next step and that is to actually train them to be successful in the new methods.
“The battle against global hunger vulnerability is winnable today, more than ever before. An important step toward ending hunger is empowering farmers in the developing world to contribute further to local and regional food needs. Initiatives like Sierra Leone's Operation Feed the Nation are training subsistence farmers to increase crop yields” (Josette Sheeran).
By training the farmers of the new methods that they were taught will take what they have learned, and put it to use. The idea is to make the farmers actually apply it to their fields to yield a better crop, which in turn will provide a better way of life nutritionally and it will increase their income as well.
Looking at the chart it clearly shows that the Sub-Saharan region is second in the world with 180 million people that are undernourished, this clearly shows the need for global involvement in curing this disease. The following map puts it into a better visual by looking at the countries individually.
Finally, after looking at the chart and map of the affected millions that are in desperate need of some form of relief to eradicate the starving and hungry in the world needs to be addressed and corrected. By improving farming techniques and educating the farmers in these regions especially the Sub-Saharan region “we” as a world unit can make a difference by allowing a better way of life, and providing a means to a solution that has plagued these regions for centuries. We need to remember that with improved farming techniques, training, and providing assessable resources, the eradication of world hunger and starvation can be a reality.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Facing the Future.org. 1999.
2009 World Hunger Map. Info.k4health.org. 2009.
SEMESTER REFLECTION
HOLY COW—ENGLISH 102!
At the beginning of the 2010-2011 School semester I was excited about English 102, which changed rather quickly. It wasn’t about the content that was going to be covered, the reading assignments that had to be read, or the demanding research essays. The excitement quickly vanished, all due to the topic of the research essays. Having to choose one of the MDG’s was a very difficult one. I was looking forward to choosing my own personal topic. When we had to choose a sub topic from this all ready difficult choice it made things a lot more demanding and frustrating.
Through the course of the requirements in this class, I enjoyed the reading materials from reading from Martin Luther King Jr, and writing about his letter from the Birmingham Jail to the other writings from other African American authors. The readings were enjoyable and very entertaining to read.
A part of this year’s requirements also included writing, since this is English 102 and writing is a key part of the English curriculum. Aside from doing the research aspect of this class there was other writing requirements. In the process of writing I found that I had a real problem with writing in first and third person. I feel that I really struggled with this and it was a carry-over problem from English 101. I have a clear and precise difference and understanding of the proper way to write college papers especially research essays. To write outside of first person and third person really makes an essay sound more scholarly. Until an individual has the credentials to actually write in a first or third person form, it is much more appropriate and effective to write form a scholarly point with proper resources. I found that the entire process of writing a proper research essay is quite encumbersome and very demanding. From the starting process of a research paper involves a lot of time and commitment to the topic that is being addressed with brainstorming, to forming a complete outline, a very thorough bibliography. Writing a successful research essay is a large multi-step process that when done right is very rewarding when you sit and read your finished work. Through this process I learned more than I thought I ever would.
This semester has been an interesting one and an educational one as well. Beginning this semester I actually have to admit I didn’t know anything about the MDG’s. My knowledge about the eradification of hunger and starvation was very insightful, I knew that the problem was serious but I didn’t know that it was of epidemic proportion.
The only thing I would have liked to do in the course of this class is that the topic for the research essay would have been of my own personal choice, but then it wouldn’t have been a challenge to complete the assignment. I feel that this course regarding of how demanding and difficult I actually really enjoyed everything about it, I enjoyed the discussion boards and the peer discussions. I also really enjoyed the responses to questions and the input of our instructor. Leslie provided great input with her own personal experience and knowledge; I am not sure I could have completed this class without her help and assistance with the procedures, and ideas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ron Zechmann
Leslie Jewkes
English 102 034W
Assignment #1
Bibliography and outline
Annotated Bibliography
This is about the remarks of the President of the United States and the First lady at the signing of the Healthy, Hungry-free Kids act. A quote that is good to use is,” That's part of the reason why one in three children in America today are either overweight or obese”.” So we need to make sure our kids have the energy and the capacity to go toe to toe with any of their peers, anywhere in the world. And we need to make sure that they're all reaching their potential. That's precisely what this bill -- the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act -- will accomplish”. These quotes will help to show the support of the President and First lady.
This article is about Feeding the Hungry. I will use the following quotes,” The European Union (EU) strongly supports the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015, and notably the first MDG, which aims to eradicate poverty and hunger. An immediate target is the halving of the proportion of people suffering from hunger between 1990 and 2015”. This will show how not only the U.S. but the EU is involved with MDG to lower the poverty rate.
This is about how Climate-smart agriculture can reduce world hunger. I will use the quote,” By climate smart, we mean agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience to environmental pressures, while at the same time reduces greenhouse gas emissions or removes them from the atmosphere, because we cannot ignore the fact that agriculture is itself a large emitter of greenhouse gases”. This is to show how smarter agriculture can reduce greenhouse gasses and be beneficial to producing more food so solve world hunger.
This is an article sending an agriculture warning to Africa. I would use the quote,” Worldwatch Institute president Christopher Flavin said that by combining the foundation's focus on agricultural productivity with the institute's brief on finding environmentally sustainable approaches to agriculture, "we are building a new bridge that may open a better future" for poor farmers.” This is to present a way that gives the necessary tools to produce a better future for the poor in Africa and it gives some hope.
This article is about how to end hunger. Quotes to use are,” the battle against global hunger vulnerability is winnable today, more than ever before. An important step toward ending hunger is empowering farmers in the developing world to contribute further to local and regional food needs. Initiatives like Sierra Leone's Operation Feed the Nation are training subsistence farmers to increase crop yields. This is an article that also supports showing the poor farmer ways to break out of the poverty trap with proper assistance.
Patrizio Warren. Mountain Research and Development. Boulder: Feb 2006. Vol. 26, Iss. 1; pg. 9, 6 pgs
This is an article about MDG activism. Quotes I would use are,” The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) movement is the latest and perhaps the most politically committed of these initiatives. UN summit declarations and subsequent international activism are beneficial at all levels: as a result of their momentum, policies are enhanced, funds raised, and programs implemented”. This shows the commitment of the UN to proceed with the needs and requirements to support the MDGs goal.
Paul B Thompson. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Guelph: 2010. Vol. 23, Iss. 3; pg. 209
This is an article about the Food aid and the famine relief argument. I will use the quote,” The world's population is expected to surpass 9 billion people by 2050, which will require an estimated 70 percent increase in global agricultural production”. “Food security and climate change can, and should, be addressed together, by transforming agriculture and adopting practices that are "climate-smart" to eradicate hunger from the world, he argued”. This article shows the argument for a necessity of increased agricultural output.
This is an article pertaining to a smarter way to combat hunger. Quotes to use are,” Policies should shift from prioritizing food aid to providing poor farmers with access to training, markets and to farm inputs such as fertilizer and improved seed. In addition to being cheaper, such investments allow farmers to grow food to feed themselves, to sell the surplus and to diversify into high-value crops, livestock and tree products. This creates a sustainable exit from the poverty trap, thereby decreasing the requirement for aid. This is in support to provide more support to the poor farmer and to provide a way of life to get out of the poverty trap.
This article is about 10 ways to feed a neighbor in need. Quotes in this article I would use are,”1. Organize a food drive: They provide as much as one third of the food at pantries, 2. Host a school, church, or community bake sale, and donate the proceeds to the Great American Bake Sale. 3. Support your local food bank.” And ” Enough already! 49 million Americans are going hungry -- a 36 percent increase since 2008, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture”. This is an article with a concrete way to stay connected and to help fight hunger with an individual effort.
The article is about Reducing Hunger through Climate smart agriculture. Quotes I would use are,” We will not achieve food security without serious investment in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the rural sector," It shows how our investment needs to be a serious one to achieve the goal of feeding the hungry
Facing the Future.org
Picture- map
Info.k4health.org
Picture- chart
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