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Matt
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Questions...
October 1, 2005 @ 07:56 AM
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What is the main thing that Fight Hunger: Walk the World project needs?
Is it actual food, or money or both?
Does anyone know how the promised aid and wiping out of debt by the G8 nations will affect the ability of nations to fight hunger?
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Nomadess
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Re: Questions...
April 5, 2007 @ 06:21 AM
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This is not an expert opinion, but I think money may help more than food.Giving food is like what they say in 'give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,teach him how to fish and you feed him forever'(..something like that)It is temporary solution to a recurring problem.
Resources are in plenty in most starving nations. During scarcity prices go so high a balanced diet becomes unaffordable to the poor man and then during rainy seasons there is a food glut-consequently prices fall so low the poor man cannot make a profit from his produce. But we can use technology to battle hunger as a result of this. If proper preservation methods were used on these foods price stability would be maintained and the excess would be able to tide people over till the next rainy period. This and other alternative methods of ensuring equitable distribution of food require financial capability-thus I think money would be a greater help than food donations.
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