In case you missed it, food has played a big part in the uprising now rocking and re-shaping the Middle East.
Flickr, World Bank
Planting in Kenya
That’s not why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to put up $70 million in partnership with the UK’s lead aid agency (aka DFID, Department for International Development), which is donating $32 million, to support agricultural research aimed at improving food production in Africa and Asia.
But it’s worth noting that food insecurity leads to political instability, which leads to economic instability … and so on.
If you still can’t figure out why you should care about people in Africa going hungry, consider that you probably also used to think Egyptian politics didn’t really affect you. They do, and they will. Pay attention.
