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Global Leaders Join at New York Summit January 2009 to Solve World Hunger, Poverty and Protect Children
| Source: Equity International
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - September 4, 2008) - Solving world hunger has been at the top of
the humanitarian agenda for decades -- even centuries, but now there are
solutions evolving that could take center stage during the World Critical
Resources Summit, January 5, 2009 at the Times Center in New York City
(www.criticalresources.org). Watch it now at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0v1S8sA4.
William Loiry, president of Equity International and critical resources
expert, explains that these leaders will solve our world's toughest
challenges. "I'm optimistic that our chief supporting sponsor,
EcoVerdance, will have a chance to enlighten our audience about how they
are working together to implement a crop-enhancing product in Africa, where
poverty has affected families and created bigger barriers for people living
with HIV/AIDS," said Loiry.
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, "Strengthening
Families Affected by HIV/AIDS and the Food Crisis," AIDS has been a
serious food security issue in many African countries, especially in
southern Africa, for years before the 2008 spike in prices. The disease
strikes people in their prime, when they would normally be working the land
and raising food.
Dr. Jacques Diouf, director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization,
recently raised the question about world hunger at the High-Level
Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and
Bioenergy: "How can we explain to people of good sense and good faith that
it was not possible to find US$30 billion a year to enable 862 million
hungry people to enjoy the most fundamental of human rights: the right to
food and thus the right to life?"
One solution might be EcoVerdance's product, which yields more harvest in
underdeveloped countries. According to a CNET News article, "Carbon Trading Our
Way Out of Hunger Crisis," the all-natural crop enhancer is being
studied in drought areas and have seen crop yields grow from 40 bushels an
acre to 180 bushels per acre.
As companies like EcoVerdance work to increase the food supply,
malnutrition continues to attribute for more than half of all child deaths
worldwide -- a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the
Black Death, according to thinkquest.org, "The
World Hunger Problem: Facts, figures and statistics."
The World Critical Resources will attract an unparalleled list of global
speakers. Register for the free event at www.criticalresources.org. To see
a full list of topics, visit the forum www.criticalresources.org/forum.