Sentence examples for root causes of hunger from inspiring English sources

That is especially true now, said Meara Nigro, director of communications at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, as her organization attacks the root causes of hunger with things like job training.

Related: Canadian anti-poverty activist Nick Saul is warning Great Britain against adopting the food bank model—"privileged people helping the underprivileged, perpetuating an us-and-them atmosphere"—because it fails to address the root causes of hunger.

This year the IF campaign is calling for policy changes to address the root causes of hunger – but so far it's been a "mere shadow" of MPH, says the Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott, who says G8 leaders are "under zero pressure to deliver", with Cameron "treated with kid gloves by most of the UK development charities".

While it is crucial to improve the nutritional content of food and supply it to those in need, these plans cannot and should not substitute efforts to address the root causes of hunger – namely the poverty, disempowerment and neglect of small farming communities worldwide.

Some proponents of G.M.O.'s say that more critical questions, like where biotechnology should fall as a priority in the efforts to address the root causes of hunger and malnutrition and how to prevent a few companies from controlling it, would be easier to address were they not lumped together with unfounded fears by those who oppose G.M.O.'s.

Andy Fisher, a co-founder of an antihunger organization, maintains that Feeding America's dependence on corporations for donations is preventing it from doing the type of advocacy work, in areas like the minimum wage and health care, that could help eliminate some of the root causes of hunger and poverty.

We believe that the root cause of hunger is poverty, and that the root cause of poverty is powerlessness.

But, what about dealing with poverty, the root cause of hunger?

To some degree, we reinforce this when we give tzedakah: We feed someone who is hungry, rather than attacking the root cause of hunger.

Because the root cause of hunger and food insecurity is poverty it means that the candidate that has the most coherent anti-poverty platform will do the most to end hunger in the richest, most productive country in the world.

The event brought together world leaders, representatives from the private sector and NGOs to focus political attention, mobilise support and agree concrete action to tackle childhood malnutrition and stunting between now and the next Olympic Games in 2016 -- and, we hope, provided a springboard for wider action to tackle the root-causes of hunger.