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Comment by carlos cornejo on May 5, 2010 at 2:56am

yes stopping curruption we could could have food security, yes and destroying the environment is not helping either, nuclear weapons and test sites should be ban fro the world.

Comment by Sarah S. on May 4, 2010 at 2:26pm

Daniel Blanchard is right, we abuse ournresorces becaus we think only of ourselves. Maybe if we learned how to be more self-less we could gert more done.

Comment by Daniel Blanchard on May 3, 2010 at 8:22pm

Unfortunately i am in Switzerland, there is no food security, near me but i honestly believe the entire world is at the point of having a food crisis, due the way we are abusing our natural resources.

Comment by Yi Mei Chen on May 2, 2010 at 6:25pm

I am truly impressed by Sithembile's story, it was really touching my heart. Not many people concern about their future generations, and most of them are selfish materialistic people. I am very thankful for living in the United States, where there is foods everywhere. I become more cautious about our future, our lands, and children. The agriculture is improving nowadays, and less people need to grow foods by hands. It is upsetting that people take foods for granted, and often times, they waste a lot of foods without having a thought of African people. On the other hand, I think it's necessary for our people to stop wasting foods and make every grain counted. Sithembile's story reminds us a lot about the importance of union, and the people from all over the world should work together and change for the better!

Comment by Gilford T Hapanyengwi on May 2, 2010 at 5:15pm

Though one might live in the same country what one might have could be very different. One has to appreciate what they have and find real purposeful ways of sharing it.

Comment by joshua A. on May 2, 2010 at 4:38pm

i just finish reading sithembiles ndemas story i learned to be grateful of having what i have. i have a lot of stuff that people cant afford and now i finally see i should be grateful for everything i have.

Comment by Margaret Chan on May 2, 2010 at 12:17am

After reading Sithembile Ndema's story, I have learned that I should be grateful of having access to food in the US because I live in a country where it has a lot of resources that some countries don't have. Yes, it is sad to find that people have to grow food in their entire life in order to survive themselves. There are so many issues than just having access to food.There are other countries whose government is politically corrupt and most people don't get the resources that they needed because of that. Also, climate change has an impact on agriculture because it could go wrong when the crops are not growing and people rely on food. These are the important issues that some countries face, but the country that I am living in is in good system. I considered myself lucky because I don't take things for granted. I am so fortunate to have access to food all the time whenever I need it.

Comment by kunat piboon DoDo on April 30, 2010 at 4:02am

I come from Thailand my country is 15% of the poverty line. If thailand have less corruption this problem would not happen in thailand.

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Comment by carlos cornejo on April 28, 2010 at 2:13am

i came from a country in south america called peru. this country is 53 percent of poverty line and most of the poor people in the country have to dig in garbarge to find food for their families. what i experience when i went there in 2006 was that in the meat market poor little kids were hiding in back of the stores to dig thru the cans for the insides of the chicken or bad meat.. i asked themm why they were doing that and they say thatm they do this everyday to feed their lilttle brothers and parents. that touch my heart, and yes hunger is a big problem in the world, while the governments are getting rich buy making dels with foreign countries , kids in peru and every 3rd world country is getting poorer. food shortages and raising prices for them cant affort. we have to not tax for those that grow crops because thats how the could help their family and more. only where theres elections they bring food to buy votes. we have to help out by helping grow there crops and protect them.

Comment by chrissy morgan on April 27, 2010 at 11:47pm

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this is stupid because they acting like they just cnt freaking plant... but i really have nth to say about this...

Comment by Delana reane Darrow on April 27, 2010 at 10:58pm

Hear in oklahoma we have several food banks,because of ecomeny,high drug addiction rates,several generations on welfare,and people buying commercail but no longer suporting local farmers or business's all of this combines to create a blanket of people who no skills ,job training, or resources to make it on thier own. We need to encorage suporting our local encomey better, training,training,I can't stress this enough if don't strate passing on our knowledge an skills,then how are the young to know?Also fix the drug laws in this country,so they make commen sence,instead of just doing the samething over and over.. I tried srting a garden to teach the kids about soil,planting,watering,extra..

Comment by Oliver Kopec on April 27, 2010 at 7:03pm

It makes me so mad. It is so simple to solve the today's problems. If I had a few billion dollars i would build hydroponic plants near all most impoverished arias of the world providing free food to the people in need. I anyone doing this?

Comment by YEH MAKEBE ELVIS on April 26, 2010 at 5:43pm

Under nutrition in Cameroon is between 15% and 25% of the total population.Cameroon is located in Sub sahara Africa and with the problem of global warming the lands for farming are becoming unproductive.For example in my village (Bamessing,Ndop) most farmers rely on maize produce to earn a living.In normal circ***tances we need 200kg of nitrogen fertilizer to produce 5000kg of maize,but an average farmer can afford only 3.6kg of nitrogen fertilizer.In this manner you can talk of increased in the quantity produce ,not to talk of the quality of production.Still in my village (Bamessing) you can't cultivate maize anywhere because of the degraded soils.I think Africa need help since about 70% of it's total population survive through agriculture.With the help of the World Bank fund to the government of Cameroon,allocation was as follows;Infrastructure services for private sector development 25%,Rural services and infractructure 25%,Other rural development 25%,Nutrition of food security 25%(source:food security and Cameroon).I think the World Bank has been offering enormous help to Africans,but these aids are sometimes abused due to corruption and poor governance.I have a philosiphy "Where the purpose of something is not known abuse is inevitable".I think the huge sum of money the World Bank issue to African leaders to help them in food crises should be revised.Instead of giving them cash which would be misappropraited,it is better to have World Bank agents in the given country who will appropraite and allocate this cash to achieve economic growth.For example in the case of privatization,we rarely hear of embezzlement in these companies because it is managed with the close collaboration of the owners.Nevertheless it is cutting down unemployment and contributing to economic development in the giving country and more to that it can survive in a going concern.Likewise,if the World Bank uses the money ,African leaders often deman from them,as highlighted above it would go a long way to cut down unemployment and embezzlement in Africa ,and would solve future food crises.

Comment by Dante Ranieri on April 25, 2010 at 8:22pm

I feel we need to teach people new ways to grow food without soil. Or how to enjoy easily grown foods. I say "enjoy" because many in society today see eating as a selection as they would a movie or a book, not as a biological necessity.

Comment by Jarrod Alagao on April 23, 2010 at 6:06am

I feel you on that Lapser

Comment by Pro Lapser on April 22, 2010 at 11:21pm

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I hate to provide an unpopular solution, but population should be decreasing and not sustaining a large unhealthy populace. Even if we could feed everyone, the tendency to reproduce uncontrollably will self-defeat any feeding program unless we consider humans themselves as a food source (aka Soylent Green).

Comment by Carina Felix on April 21, 2010 at 8:28pm

In Durango, Durango, Mexico. Poverty is seen on the streets, almost on all of them. The homeless sit against the walls of downtown Durango, begging for money, begging for food. There are few organizations/foodbanks in Durango, making it harder for those in need to get help, to get food.

Comment by michael on April 21, 2010 at 5:10pm

I think we have enough food but we have too many fast food places we need cheaper wh*** food stores.

Comment by Jarrod Alagao on April 21, 2010 at 12:37am

Los Angeles, CA is my hometown, home of the second largest city in the United States, where many low income high poverty, starving people roam about.

In order to combat this, we've got the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank which is the second largest organization of its kind in the entire nation networking through 560 member agencies and Foodbank programs. In 2009, it set a milestone feeding nearly 1 million people, about the same amount of pounds of food distributed each week. In 2010, the organization is aiming towards toppling that mark with new innovative ways of accomplishing it such as increasing distribution to seniors, reaching more families and children, and reaching out to those who qualify for food stamp benefits.

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