Apparently we are doing a great job reducing hunger !

According to the International Food Policy Research Institute the world is doing an increasingly good job of reducing hunger and extreme poverty.  I am sure that we can find plenty of differences of opinion as to how that feat is being accomplished.  My money is on smallholders getting better access to nitrate fertilizer and improved varieties of staple crops like wheat and rice.  Better productivity near where food is consumed reduces waste, price, and spoilage in transit while increasing local revenue and the percentage of food consumed.  

World Food Security Overview in 1990

World Food Security Overview in 2014

Source for the above maps
 http://www.ifpri.org/tools/2014-ghi-map

Healing Relationships Video

Here is a video explaining some of the community building aspect of Operation Mercy's work in the Jordan Valley. 

Interview with the Ag. Projects Manager in Jordan

Bill Gates and I Agree on GMOs

Mr. Gates highlights some of the most salient points affecting smallholder farmers and the benefits of using GMO (genetically modified) crops in a brief video on The Verge.  Using GMOs the United States currently feeds its own population of 300 million and remains a major food exporter.  So much so that about one third of all US agricultural income comes from exports. One of the major tools used by the vast majority of American farmers are GMO crops. 


 Here is a link to the video explaining how GMOs effect food production in the developing world.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/18/8056163/bill-gates-gmo-farming-world-hunger-africa-poverty