Global Leaders Join at New York Summit January 2009 to Solve World Hunger, Poverty and Protect Children

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />WASHINGTON – Solving world hunger has been at the top of the humanitarian agenda for decades -- even centuries, but now there are solutions evolving that could take center stage during the World Critical Resources Summit, January 5, 2009 at the Times Center in New York City (www.criticalresources.org).  Watch it now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0v1S8sA4.     

William Loiry, president of Equity International and critical resources expert, explains that these leaders will solve our world’s toughest challenges.  “I’m optimistic that our chief supporting sponsor, EcoVerdance, will have a chance to enlighten our audience about how they are working together to implement a crop-enhancing product in Africa, where poverty has affected families and created bigger barriers for people living with HIV/AIDS,” said Loiry.  

According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, “Strengthening Families Affected by HIV/AIDS and the Food Crisis,” AIDS has been a serious food security issue in many African countries, especially in southern Africa, for years before the 2008 spike in prices. The disease strikes people in their prime, when they would normally be working the land and raising food.

Dr. Jacques Diouf, director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, recently raised the question about world hunger at the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy: “How can we explain to people of good sense and good faith that it was not possible to find US$30 billion a year to enable 862 million hungry people to enjoy the most fundamental of human rights: the right to food and thus the right to life?”   

One solution might be EcoVerdance’s product, which yields more harvest in underdeveloped countries.  According to a CNET News article, “Carbon Trading Our Way Out of Hunger Crisis,” the all-natural crop enhancer is being studied in drought areas and have seen crop yields grow from 40 bushels an acre to 180 bushels per acre.

As companies like EcoVerdance work to increase the food supply, malnutrition continues to attribute for more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death, according to thinkquest.org, “The World Hunger Problem: Facts, figures and statistics.”  

The World Critical Resources will attract an unparalleled list of global speakers.  Register for the free event at www.criticalresources.org. To see a full list of topics, visit the forum www.criticalresources.org/forum.