Grassroots Efforts in the Fight against Global Hunger
| Date/Time: | Monday, 11 Oct 2010 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures Live Green |
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David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World, a faith-based organization that seeks to influence leaders in Washington to end hunger at home and abroad. Through Bread for the World he led a grassroots effort to persuade the U.S. government to increase funding for the fight against hunger as well as develop more focused policies and long-term solutions. During Beckmann's tenure, Bread For the World's membership has nearly doubled, and Congress has tripled its poverty-focused development assistance; U.S. aid to Africa for agriculture and rural infrastructure has increased eightfold. Beckmann is the author of two books, including the newly released Exodus from Hunger. An economist and Lutheran pastor, he worked on poverty issues at the World Bank for fifteen years and holds degrees from Yale University, Christ Seminary, and the London School of Economics.
Jo Luck is president of Heifer International, an organization that teaches the world's resource-poor and hungry how to become self-sustaining. Heifer's unique public education initiative links grassroots donors in wealthy countries to recipients in developing countries. It provides extremely poor families with food- and income-producing animals as well as a model for community development that combines improved human nutrition and management of animal and natural resources with training in business development, leadership, gender equity, and environmental conservation practices. Under Jo Luck's leadership, Heifer International's supporters have grown from 20,000 to 500,000, and its message of sustainable solutions to hunger has reached the homes of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Jo Luck is a graduate of David Lipscomb College and attended the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School Executive Education Program.
A reception and student poster display will precede the lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. in the South Ballroom, Memorial Union. Posters will address world food issues and are submitted by undergraduate and graduate students. The competition is funded by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Sciences, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.