It is difficult to keep your eye on the long-term vision, when the prospect of a famine is at the door. But it is this that organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, care and world food program United Nations seek to do more.
Skip to the next paragraphThe old adage seems to have truth in it: give people a fish, they eat for a day. Teach them to fish, and they can feed themselves for a life.
The Gates foundation is committed to spend $ 1.7 billion to mitigate the underlying conditions that create hunger and poverty in Africa, told an Associated Press story. But it may take two decades or more to bring its work to fruition.
Timothy's World Coffee, Colombian Decaffeinated, 24-Count K-Cups for Keurig Brewers (Pack of 2) (Grocery)
By Timothy's
Buy new: $29.04
Customer Rating:
First tagged "food" by M. Ginzberg
Customer tags: k-cups(52), decaf(47), timothys world coffee(29), keurig(20), coffee(16), single serve(12), flavored(7), colombian(6), espresso(2), colomian, coffee decaff, decaf coffee
"It takes years and years to move the system," says Roy Steiner, Assistant Director of the global development of the Gates Foundation. "Giving people food is certainly necessary when there a crisis," he said. "But these people don't want to be dependent on the charity outside." And, frankly, who will pay for the whole of the food given? »
"Fishing poles" that she and other relief agencies are trying to provide include more seeds resistant to droughts, better fertilizer, educate farmers on better farming techniques and help them get their crops to market more easily.
Agriculture came under the spotlight, that the world population grows with concerns about how the fact of climate change may affect food production. A report published yesterday by the aid agency Oxfam, called a better future of growth "warns that spiraling prices and endless cycles of food crises regional create millions more people suffer from hunger unless transform us the way which we grow and sell food. He predicted that the price of the staples such as corn could more than double over the next 20 years.
What is needed in Africa, this is the kind of green revolution in other parts of the world in the 20th century. If the genetic modification of plants will be a key element of the response in Africa remains to be seen (see "How science could trigger a second Green Revolution").
The Alliance for a revolution green in Africa, led by African scientists, economists and business leaders, helping small farmers, especially women, to improve their farming methods. It is just a beneficiary effort of aid of the Gates Foundation.
Gloria Jean's Coffees, Flavored Coffee Variety, 22-Count K-Cups for Keurig Brewers (Pack of 2) (Grocery)
By Gloria Jean's
Buy new: $38.56
7 used and new from $33.00
Customer Rating:
First tagged "food" by M. Ginzberg
Customer tags: k-cups(130), k cups(55), flavored coffee(47), coffee(45), keurig coffee pods(44), decaf(36), gloria jeans(35), keurig(27), timothys world coffee(10), krups(6), 2009 amazon frustration-free packaging revolution(5), variety(3)
Get New Article Alerts In Your Inbox
Subscribe to Food Knowledge Article Alerts to get daily notifications of our newest articles in your email for free. You can unsubscribe at any time. share your opinion about Green Revolution in Africa can be a long time coming--Christian Science Monitor by comment on below post.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
0 comments:
Post a Comment