Into the Flip Side

"Food crises are not isolated events that happen unexpectedly" says Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE, the poverty-fighting organization. "People are plunged into crisis due to a number of interrelated factors, including poverty, poor access to markets, insufficient agricultural production, and social marginalization. A disaster only makes a systematic problem worse. Unless we address the reasons why people are vulnerable to hunger in the first place, we will not succeed in overcoming widespread food insecurity over the long term."

full article: here "CARE urges UN Food Summit Participants to Look at Bigger Picture of Hunger."


There are issues and approaches in this article that I might not agree with but what I think is important to note is that groups like CARE are out on the front lines fighting for people who are starving. I also think there is great importance in continuing to look at solutions as CARE is doing and requesting that the U.N. also do.