An unprecedented effort to protect the world’s food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. The move marks a growing recognition that serious changes in weather patterns are inevitable over the coming decades, and that society must begin to adapt. Some Ł200-million a year will […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
No Obligation To Give
by Scott Hughes A few weeks ago, my grandmother told me about the veterans’ charities that asked her for donations. She told me that she regularly gave to a specific veterans’ organization, but that other organizations continued to solicit her. She asked me, “if I give to one, I shouldn’t be obligated to give to […]
Charity: Not Eating For A Cause
Sounds peculiar at first. You attend a charity banquet with a friend. Maybe you paid to get in. Maybe you didn’t. Your friend gets a full meal at a linen-clothed table while you sit on the floor and share a bowl of rice with strangers. Not fair? That’s the point. It’s called a hunger banquet. […]
Annan Says Youth Is Key To Poverty Fight
With less than two months before he steps down as secretary-general after a 10-year tenure, Kofi Annan is disappointed that the international community is lagging behind in its much-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including a 50 percent reduction in extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. At this rate, he warns, many of the goals will […]
Manufacturing World Hunger
A recent article on ProgressiveU.org points out a main factor in world hunger, the destruction of food: If all food produced worldwide every year was counted, there would be enough to feed double the world’s current population. So why is it that 36 million people die of malnutrition every year? World hunger is a vast […]
Nelson Mandela: While Poverty Persists, There Is No Freedom
The below is a letter written by Nelson Mandela, of whom I am a great admirer. While poverty persists, there is no freedom BY NELSON MANDELA khaleejtimes.com 7 November 2006 [I have posted the poem he mentions, From the Republic of Conscience, below] IN JOHANNESBURG, this week, in the warm company of friends, like Nadine […]