20 million to starve in africa

[15444]

People were saying the same ****ing thing 30+ years ago. If anything, Africans need investment in all forms of birth control. If you can't sustain yourself in this world, you sure as hell can't support kids - no matter in the developed or 3rd world.

[bucket]

Good point....I think it's the same kid in the hungry African commercials ....you would think they would grow up....or give an update to whatever happened to them from the donated money....

Oops .... time for another layer of tinfoil...

[farmaholic]

Bubble gum, haywire and duct tape fixes.....

[JoeyJeremiah]

People were saying the same ****ing thing 30+ years ago. If anything, Africans need investment in all forms of birth control. If you can't sustain yourself in this world, you sure as hell can't support kids - no matter in the developed or 3rd world.

The world child mortality rate has been reduced by half since 1990. Though there is still a long ways to go, I would say things are improving.

[bucket]

"""""""The United Nations needs $4.4bn by the end of next month to prevent "a catastrophe" of hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

More than 20 million people face starvation in the four countries and action is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster, Guterres told a news conference at UN headquarters on Wednesday.

"We need $4.4 billion by the end of March to avert a catastrophe," he said.""""""""


Nope....they need a few thousand tonnes of grain for food.....pay the countries making food and more importantly the farmers ....
rather than writing cheques to dictators.....


Never ate a dollar bill in my life.

[bucket]

Watch Trudeau give cash instead of actually addressing the real issue.

[farmaholic]

No sense sending "poisonous" durum!

[bucket]

Peas lentils chickpeas wheat sits on the prairies....


Trudeau should buy the grain, get it moving and give it to the countries...better for Canadian farmers to have the money rather than the dictators or others that can't solve the problem.

[bucket]

20 million pounds of grain per day is 10000 tonnes. A unit train per day is required to help these countries with a food shortage.

Can't and won't be done.....they will talk about it until the 20 million die....

[errolanderson]

bucket, i have travelled Africa extensively and one thing I learned was; Africa will never change.

Tribal control means the goods for the people are often intercepted for profit and corruption.

The African continent is far bigger than North America and they could feed the world themselves, but that won't and will never happen.