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please disturb!

Allan Davison

adavison@sfu.ca

Making hunger history?

Making hunger history?

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Where are we?

Where are we going?

Much better since the MDGs, but far from making hunger history

Hunger on a global scale will disappear, in 2 or 3 more 15y plans. New initiatives

Only 5-10 nations of 23 will reach 0.7% of GDP. None will forgo unfair trade rules

What’s working, what’s not?

Aid isn’t workingTrade for profit instead

Trade barriers. Fair trade & aid

Population outstrips food supply

… we give more than anyone!

Trillions wasted! - 1 b still starving

MDGs won’t be achieved

Most aid corrupt dictators Corrupt multinationals

2008 recession

Never promised 0.7% and anyway …

“Trade not aid”

Broken promises

Malthus is wrong

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V little is wasted

½ what EU gives!

Profit motive hasn’t worked - aid is needed

“They” didn’t cause it

You did so!

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USA + WestEurope

since 1945

http://ers.usda.gov/Data/Macroeconomics/

Manifest destiny of world - wealth

China +India 2040?

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Number of malnourished world-wide

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water-carrier

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http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Tracking_Progress_on_Child_and_Maternal_Nutrition_EN_110309.pdf

kcal per household surveyed

World% undernourished

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33%

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22%

14%

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Number fed & under-nourished worldwide

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Prediction

6%11%

Target

33%

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http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Tracking_Progress_on_Child_and_Maternal_Nutrition_EN_110309.pdfhttp://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/518.full.pdf

Percentage stunted

60%

40%

20%

AfricaAsia

Latin Am

Last 2 or 3 points are projections

1980 & every 5 years

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs290/en/index.html

http://www.fao.org/mdg/en/http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/reports.shtml#mdgs

Number stunted

200m

100m

0

Africa

Asia

Latin Am

1980 & every 5 years

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Paying for total strangers to eat?

Not us, not if it goes to corrupt

dictators” }

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http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance#GovernmentsCuttingBackonPromisedResponsibilities

“Development aid”, not spent on poverty or development

Lost to: InefficiencyUnfair tradeEmergency aid RefugeesTied to benefit rich & Debt relief

“Phantom aid”, the wasted 47%Refers toODA, not

MDGs

Real aid53%

Corrupt Dictators? Rich...

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Accept “bribes” to give trade concessions that impoverish their people

Accept personal & campaign “contributions” peddling influence. Could stop bribery at home & abroad by abolishing secret a/c

... & Poor

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We know what works•Transparent & accountable , open bids•Partnerships not paternalism•Goals, objectives, timed milestones•Strategies revised annually by both partners•Externally monitored. No political pressure•Sustainable emphasis on poverty, agriculture•Serves recipient needs, not donor / ideology•Firm long-term commitments: MV, Grameen

Unrealistic? Let’s see ...14

• Grameen Family of social enterprises

• Billionaire philanthropists & foundations

• The Millennium Village project

• Passionate & influential voices for change

• Scientists & students bring energy to future

• Instant spread of innovations: agric, educ, &c

Beyond MDGs: amazing changes

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Passionate renegades

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The End

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