On CNN: How to End World Hunger

By Pierre Ferrari

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: October 22, 2013

On CNN: How to End World Hunger

We were honored to have Susan Sarandon speak on our behalf on CNN today. I was also given the opportunity to provide an op-ed on the CNN Impact Your World site. You can read an excerpt below, and be sure to watch the video. 

Think of eight people you know. One of them may go to bed hungry tonight.

Not surprisingly, about 98% of hungry people live in developing countries and the crisis will likely get worse. Over the next 12 years, the United Nations projects the global population will hit 8 billion people.

If we want to solve the problem, we first have to target the people who produce the food. For nearly 70 years, Heifer International has been working with small farming communities to raise productivity and create a surplus that can be sold or provided to other hungry people.

Read the rest of my op-ed on CNN.com.