A novel idea to battle world hunger.

     Hungry people weigh on our collective conscience, they create volatile politics, they live in despair, they die young, and the dead, the dying and the permanently afflicted are too often children. For decades, the United States, followed closely by Japan, have been battling world hunger with food aid, and they will continue to do so.
    At the recent G8 summit meeting of the globe's richest nation's, world leaders enlisted a new weapon in the fight against hunger. It's called "private enterprise." In an interview published in London's Financial Times yesterday, Oscar Cherminski told reporter Javier Blas that the International Finance Corporation is aiming for a 20-30 percent increase in agribusiness lending over the next three years. Cherminski is director of global agribusiness for the IFC, which is the private sector arm of the World Bank.
    Investments will focus on high yielding seeds, irrigation projects, fertilizer factories and bringing fallow land into production. Read the rest of the report here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23beb79e-7f72-11de-85dc-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

    The Annual Millersville Native Plant Conference drew hundreds of people who were dedicated to, interested in or just curious about the plant life that preceded Europeans and maybe even Native Americans to this part of the New World. The conference was held on the campus of Millersville (Pa.) State University. You can read a report about it in the Food and Family section of this week's Lancaster Farming.

    I think these tracks are reversed. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=258016