Roger Thurow’s Impatience

Mar 17th, 2010 3:59 PM UTC
By Chris Scott

In his column today at Global Food for Thought, Roger Thurow provides a really good run-down of the written testimonies from key figures at last week’s hearing on global health in which Bill Clinton and Bill Gates addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He particularly singles out Senator Richard Lugar’s testimony and his own work around the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative.

Roger concludes:

The answer: We have to get moving. With the government and philanthropists and corporations and grassroots organizations all bringing a focus on reducing hunger through agriculture development, we have arrived at a moment of great opportunity. Or, rather, potential opportunity. Congress needs to act, to support the lead of the administration.

And we all need to crank up our impatience to bring the concerted action to the farms, particularly the small farms of Africa, that will generate the momentum and the optimism that this can be the singular achievement of our generation.

Well put.

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