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Article: Panelists: Combating World Hunger Vital To U.S. National Security; White House, Capitol Hill Put Development Policy Higher On Agenda
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- U.S. Newswire
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- January 29, 2002
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Efforts to eradicate global
hunger and poverty should be a vital part of U.S. national security
and foreign policy in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September
11, agreed senior policymakers, legislators, and lobbyists taking
part in a special symposium on development and foreign aid policy
convened by Resources for the Future (RFF).
"We still live in a world in which 800 million people are
malnourished," Undersecretary of State Alan Larson told the
symposium, adding that the Bush Administration is aware that poverty
and hunger are breeding grounds for terrorism.
"I think we're at a moment of hope," David Beckmann, president of
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