Welcome to Nourishing the Planet's Diary

Thanks for posting these here... (2.00 / 7)

You might not get many comments (though you'd get more if you replied) but don't doubt you work is read, appreciated and (as someone who love visiting Africa and has relatives there) a little bit envied.

If you ever want to corral together some Moose Volunteers to help your projects, just let us know. Maybe we can raise sponsorship, and have our first big Moose Moot in the Sub Sahara.  

Moose Juice; debate without hate

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by: Brit @ Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 15:55:19 PM CDT

Thanks for the great work. Please continue to post here and educate us. (2.00 / 7)

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by: louisprandtl @ Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 16:30:07 PM CDT

You guys continue to give me hope. (2.00 / 4)

I'm never far from having some, but you guys really top me up!

The role you play in informing others on what is being done and what works is imho nearly immeasurably valuable.  In the same way that early "starving children in XYZ" ads did add value by educating others about the problems, you educate others about solutions.   The former may have been useful when ignorance was the roadblock to solutions, but that path has turned to produce little but cynicism today.

My role in all this is tends to be to ponder the progress and place in history.  Are we moving forward or sliding backward?  As anyone who has been unable to avoid listening to me knows, in general over most practical timeframes it seems we have moved forward in most ways.  To that end, your comment about "world hunger numbers approaching 1 billion" brings to my mind one of the metrics I reference for this problem.  According to Sci Am in recent years there were in 1960 1B people out of 3B alive living in persistent hunger, in ~2004 there were by the same measure 850M out of 6.5B in the same circumstance, and the physical geography where persistent hunger was endemic had reduced dramatically over the same period.

I don't know whether the measures are the same between the study referenced in SciAm and your source.  It would not be surprising if the last several years' global economics had increased the numbers living with persistent hunger, so assuming we are talking apples and apples I wonder whether the uptick is long or short?  Are we improving over say the last ten or twenty years, or have we reversed the trend?

Keep up the good work!

"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon

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by: chrisblask @ Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 10:31:37 AM CDT