October 20, 2009

Hunger breeds violence


"Peacemaking strategies must include denying extremists recruits from a hungry population by providing food to alleviate the suffering". By By Samuel R. Berger. October 16, 2009, Los Angeles Times.
"Children who grow up in the world's poorest countries know hunger as an everyday part of life. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that every six seconds a child dies of hunger. Those who don't die face a childhood of worry and desperation -- a never-ending empty stomach. Many of them end up foraging in the streets or garbage heaps, where they are prime targets for recruitment by extremist groups or other criminal organizations. That is simply not acceptable when most live in a world of plenty".

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