Wall Street Journal Op-ed: How to Continue the Fight Against Hunger

An op-ed from today’s Wall Street Journal penned by Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M, and Peter McPherson, president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The op-ed discussed the global food crisis and possible solutions, and called for a “long-term vision of growth, and integrated investments that incorporates research, human and institutional capacity building, infrastructure, sound policy, markets and governance.” They wrote that the USAID must help countries produce more food and reestablish their reputation as leading the donor world on agriculture. They proposed that the USAID should invest more in agriculture and work with U.S. universities in the area of solving hunger. They concluded that “Food, agriculture and growth must once again become fundamental and sustained USAID objectives. Let's heed the words of George Marshall and focus our resources on hunger, poverty and desperation.”

Here is the link to the full article.