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Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger


Our planet produces enough food to feed its more than 960 million undernourished people.

In developing countries huge agribusinesses, fat with government subsidies, sell their unsustainable (and sometimes genetically modified) products at a reduced rate, thus making it impossible for local farmers to compete.

Ten Things we can do

end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains

demand that more foreign food aid be in the form of cash and training

Conserve energy

Eat less meat.

Every pound of meat produced requires sixteen pounds of grain

Support grassroots projects that advance sustainable agriculture at the community level

Demand a worldwide reduction in the sale of pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified seeds

Read "The Politics of Hunger." Remember that global hunger is a local problem, a feminist problem, a socioeconomic problem and, most urgently, a political problem that can be overcome.