Food and Water
Conclusion
As we enter 21st century, we are beginning to realize that we do have the ability to feed the world and to provide each global citizen with sufficient clean water. Even though we fluctuate between hopelessness and optimism, we are aware that we must make some dramatic changes in the way we eat and how we use water. Until resources are more equitably distributed and we continue to develop and implement sustainable processes into the way we grow food, the basic problem of hunger will likely persist.
When poor people have enough to eat and water to drink and wash with, they enter the global economy as partners and consumers and business thrives. When communities take charge of their own food production and protect their water sources the environment thrives and the land begins to recover. And when everyone is receiving their fair share of the food and water of the world, one of the most serious sources of conflict is removed.
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