The food crisis in the United States
Presbyterians will come together during the weekend of July 3 to 5 to focus on agribusiness, specifically the practice of pig farming, in the United States.
Use the July fast materials to explore the role of agribusiness in the food system and its relation to the food crisis in the United States. Learn how the concentration of agricultural corporate power has changed how and what we eat. Examine the alternative methods of food production. Read about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how they've quietly crept into our diets. Find personal and communal responses for decreasing hunger and increasing sustainability. Fast, pray, repent, act.
One Great Hour of Sharing transforms families
 Monique Baïtal, a mother of six in Cameroon, has felt her burden lifted. Through One Great Hour of Sharing, when she needs grain to feed her family she can get it at the community grain bank. The grain bank helps her community resist selling when their crop prices are too low. With greater control, they’ve even begun building a cushion against hard times. Now her two youngest children are going to school so they will have the choices to which all children are entitled. Read more by downloading the bulletin insert. 
Fair trade: a simple choice for a better world
 Rehima Hussein, 12 years old in this photo, is one of 15 children. She and her coffee-farming family live far from town, but thanks to the economic benefits of Fair Trade, Rehima completed high school and now attends college. PHP supports fair trade through our programs and grants. One of these grants was for $10,000 to the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition (LRC) to strengthen their Fair Trade Project. Learn more about the difference buying fair trade makes.
Responses to climate change could increase hunger
Biofuels (fuels made from plants like corn, palm oil trees and other biomass) are touted as a substitute for fossil fuels with fewer global warming emissions. But is it true? New research demonstrates that biofuels may actually increase greenhouse emissions.
Find out What's New and learn more about climate change and its impact on hunger.
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Hunger and poverty increases in the United States
While the U.S. government can help alleviate hunger by improving and expanding the national nutritional programs, ending hunger ultimately requires broader efforts to reduce poverty in America through decent, good-paying jobs.
Toward that end, PHP supports living wage campaigns and Let Justice Roll. Learn more about Let Justice Roll and educate yourself and people in your congregation through the resources available through PHP.
The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That's more than last year. More than ever before. But working together, we can reverse the trend. By joining with those in need, we can change the picture of poverty to one of hope. Hope comes through the Hunger Program grants and through our work with partners to collaboratively solve this problem.
Ending extreme poverty is realistic
 Photo by Dan White The world could end extreme poverty within a decade if wealthy
nations fulfilled their pledges to increase development aid,
Columbia University economist Jeffrey D. Sachs said on Jan.
17 as he presented a plan to the United Nations for achieving
that goal. To learn more, read "The End of Poverty." |
