World Affairs Council Presents “The Forces Behind Famine” August 11, 2009

“The Forces Behind Famine”
Roger Thurow, Author and Foreign Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet more than 9 million people die each year of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases—most of them in Africa and most of them children. Roger Thurow joins the Council for a look at the geopolitics that allow some countries to prosper while others starve. Looking at Africa, he examines how subsidies and food aid are going awry, and how many well-intentioned strategies contribute to keeping the poor hungry and unable to feed themselves. Thurow has been a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries.

Tuesday, August 11; Check-in: 5:30 PM, Program: 6:00 PM
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