If you have one minute, Urge Congress to Cut Hunger in Half

Ask our leaders to cut through the red tape and pass a comprehensive, national strategy to fight world hunger

Right now, more than one billion people around the world go to bed hungry each night. That's more than triple the population of the U.S. alone.

With a smart strategy, we can cut hunger in half by 2015. However, U.S. food security and hunger relief programs are spread over dozens of federal agencies, hampering the effort to provide coordinated and effective aid to the world's most vulnerable.

Urge Congress to support H.R. 2817, the Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009. The bill lays out recommendations for a comprehensive national plan to not only fight hunger, but create opportunities that will allow families around the world to make sure they can feed themselves next month, next year and 10 years from now.

Tell our elected officials you want to know who is in charge and who to hold accountable. The Roadmap:

Establishes a White House Office on Global Hunger and a national Hunger Coordinator who can take the lead in putting the comprehensive strategy into action and in improving coordination to successfully address global hungerRestores the now-defunct Congressional Select Committee on Hunger to perform the vital task of coordinating the multiple congressional committees with legislative authority over global hunger issues

Want to learn more? Download the Roadmap or read Rep. Jim McGovern's speech on the Roadmap and food security.

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