Watch Josette Sheeran, the head of the United Nation's World
Food Program on TED talk about different approaches to ending
global hunger.  A handful of things stuck out for me. First, the
statement that food is "the most fundamental expectation of
every human being." How true that is. And the brain scans
comparing the brains of two 3-year-olds–one well nourished and
the other deeply malnourished–are disturbing to say the least.
If we want conditions to improve in hungry nations, ensuring
adequate nutrition of infants and young children must be a top
priority. Otherwise, we're looking at a continued future of
populations who cannot help themselves.  The most striking
statement to me: "This isn't one of those rare diseases that we
don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger."  But
then, I really felt like something was missing from Sheeran's
talk. Aside from a handful of indirect linkages (local farmers
in Brazil providing a third of the food for school feeding
programs, villages setting up food stor