Page 10 University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1981
Politics block food aid, U.N. officio says
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
The world's hungry can be fed if the political will allow it, Don Kimmel, director of the North American liaison office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization, said last night.
Kimnel quoted John F. Kennedy in emphasizing the need for political cooperation.
"We have the ability to feed all the hungry if we only have the political will." Kimmel quoted Kennedy.
The world hunger problem can be solved if nations will help each other, Kimmel said.
"Nations must cooperate in implementing programs in the best interests of all humanity," he said. "Whether governments will do so remains the same big if' proposed by President Kennedy."
Kimmel, sponsored by the University of Kansas and the Douglas County Chapter of the U.N. program, spoke to students at the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
MORE THAN 500 million people
suffer the blight of hunger today, Kimmel said.
"That's too many people to be suffering unnecessarily," he said. "I'm just talking about those who don't get enough to eat, not the malnourished."
Inequality in the world causes the hunger problem, according to Kimmel, a professor of psychology at Cornell University.
"The world's most productive agricultural land is not distributed
The United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina provide most of the war effort.
"They provide 85 percent of the cereal grain in the world market," he said.
THEY ALSO HAVE 75 percent of the world's resources, 93 percent of the industry and 100 percent of the research. Kimmel said.
The nations of the world have many options for reducing the prevalent hunger problem, he said. They should: *Increase food production.*
- Design food help or a grain reserve,
• Look at the importance of nutrition,
and
• Remove the obstacles to trade bet-
- Encourage governments to make structural changes to ensure the production gets the hungry fed,
- Expand and ensure food aid,
- Remove the obstacles to trade between nations.
- Design food help or a grain reserve,
"It is technically possible to increase food production in nations," he said. "The poor nation should give priority to which which further agricultural production."
He said that the underdeveloped nations lacked resources and technology, but that they had one very important commodity.
"The most abundant resource in these nations is people." Kimmel said.
He stresses importance of food aid to the nee that much of the aid need thereby really poor nations.
FOOD AID $t$ get rid of surplus, to demand for U.S. purposes, for foodies and for diplomatic heaid.
"The bulk of it'd moved in the world is not very directed to most of the need sit."
The nations of rican alleviate hunger if they w Klimel said.
"We've got to work together as a family of naval held.
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