A Future Free from Famine

Imagine a future free of famine. This summer, a food crisis emerged in the Horn of Africa and now threatens the lives of more than 13 million people. Although we've come a long way since the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85, it's time to make sure this doesn't happen again - anywhere. Go to http://one.org/actnow for more information.

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• ONE
• campaign
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• poverty
• Africa
• famine
• hunger
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• Kenya
• Somalia

[Crucible0Patriot]

I am the voice of reality.....Irrigation and seed will not create prosperity. It will create murder, rape and slavery. Harsh words? Believe I am not happy to say that. But REALITY is those with guns will controll the harvest and will take from the workers EVERYTHING! SNAP OUT OF IT! GET A CLUE!!. You must first campaign to send Peace Keepers THEN build infrastructure. If you don't then this video is nothing more than a militia slavery/revenue campaign. SERIOUSLY!

[BravePotato]

I'd like to say that I feel like this video is a huge step in the right direction, in so far as it's edgy, cool and gorgeous. The music, especially the end when it shows the One.org logo is fantastic. Go Hollywood, make it bigger, draw people in by getting them excited and feeling empowered like they're on a mission! I loved this! (27 y/o male undergrad FL) Thanks :)

[claeslook]

I agree with the recent post, adressing the need to sustain our food production. We've got to take good care of todays arable land. The way in which we produce todays food cannot be sustained in the years to come. Monocultural farms with annual crops needs a whole lot of effort in terms of energy, and at the same time they make the land prone to erosion and stimulate nutrient leaching. Even if monocultures can produce a great amount of food - they're inherently built to fail. Google PERMACULTURE

[490er]

we just hit 7 billion poeple

were strenching Earth's nature reasorces to their breaking point and on top of that oil is running out and once the oil is gone our food production is going to fall apart with our mechines

i'd like to stop starving but first we need to make sure we can KEEP the production we have now

we HAVE to find an alternative fuel and better energy production

they are the key to ending world hungy

we need them in order to increase and maintain our food production

[LaSerenaRain]

Thank you for sharing

[alvisc2002]

@X7ELI7X i feel like a jerk for saying it though.

[SuperFreehugger]

All is full of love!

Namaste

[RonzigsGallery]

@jameshriz Thank you so much. I've been trying to figure this out for quiteq while.

[MrZhouLi]

People in the Horn of Africa have many children because most of the country is agriculture based. Having more children means you can farm more and have a better quality of life. Also, having children is basically a form of social security. A person might argue that they shouldn't be farm based but extreme poverty and power hungry corporations make that near impossible. Furthermore, the poorest people in America have it better then the poorest people in Somalia.

[MelsEpicWheelTime]

@alvisc2002 Exactly. There shouldn't be accelerated population of life in a place that can't actually support life.