We must "bend the arc of history toward nourishment and dignity for all," said Mashal Husain, president of the World Food Prize Foundation, because "hunger is not inevitable." Husain was in New York City this morning as part of a delegation presenting the annual World Food Prize to this year's l aureate. Let's face it. There is plenty of food in the world to feed everyone. Hunger has not been a supply problem in the modern era. It's always been a question of distribution, economics, and politics. Food insecurity is especially acute these days, however, because of wars of choice, climate change, and the politics of brutality inflicted on people, in part, by a cabal of authoritarians momentarily in power. Humankind has never been very good at long-term, systemic thinking. That is one among many reasons why some people refuse to understand the very obvious and scientifically proven causal relationships that lead from climate change to hunger and famine to ...
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