Aug 15 2012
This post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Views from the Center" blog, Owen Barder, a senior fellow and the director for Europe at CGD, addresses the recent hunger summit in London, citing two reasons for concern surrounding the discussion. "First, it is wrong to conflate the problem of hunger with the need to improve agricultural productivity. Hunger has very little to do with food production," Barder writes, continuing, "Second, the conversation is too much about money and not enough about what we should do to address the structural causes of hunger and malnutrition." He concludes, "If the [G8] leaders cannot get together and make meaningful decisions about something as important as this, why do they bother meeting at all?" (8/13).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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