07/29/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Overcoming global hunger by addressing shortcomings in worldwide agricultural productivity and marketing should be one of the 'starting points' for U.S. foreign policy."
"It is not the lack of food in the country but the problems of poverty and distribution and income."
"I noted in the Feed the Future publications a map of the 19 countries, which is very helpful in identifying precisely what we are talking about today."
"If we are really serious about yields and about a large change for the single woman farmer dealing with bad seed and bad fertilizer and bad transportation, this is why I asked the question."