Starved for Attention: Globalization has Increased the Need to End Hunger in the Developing Nations and has Provided the Means to Do It
Author(s)
Sechler, Susan
Abstract
So far, American policy makers have been too preoccupied with defending the homeland and stimulating the economy to begin the process of thinking differently about how to approach food security. But our changed understanding of the American place in the world–our inescapable interdependence with and vulnerability to the rest of humanity–makes the problem of world hunger more urgent. Hunger is not new, but the worldwide flow of communications, ideas, capital, labor, and opportunity provides policy makers with ways to help poor people generate income in formerly remote areas. If we use the tools at our disposal to fight world hunger seriously, the benefits will redound to all of us–in the West and in the developing world–politically, economically, and morally.
