2008 High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome 

"The response [to the world hunger crisis] so far is just not close to being commensurate with the problem. This is like the onset of the AIDS epidemic in developing countries in at the end of the 80s. People haven't really figured out yet how damaging this is going to be."
--David Beckmann, president, Bread for the World. 

Bread for the World President David Beckmann attended the High-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome, June 3-5, 2008.  It drew 30 heads of state and thousands of officials from nearly all the world's governments. 

In his capacity as President of the Alliance to End Hunger, Beckmann was one of three nongovernmental representatives allowed to speak in the plenary.  He argued that the response to the world hunger crisis should include efforts to build political will by strengthening institutions of various sorts that push for policies to help hungry and poor people. 

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