But the optimum solution to tackle the cause of hunger is to give the poor and hungry that ultimate form of voucher: cash.
They support an environment conducive to research and development and the advanced technologies that conquer disease, hunger, poor sanitation and the other evils that make high population growth worrisome.
"The governor just doesn't seem willing to bring his 'A game' to the minimum wage issue, " said Mark Dunlea of the Hunger Action Network, an advocate for the poor and working poor.
The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.
Children's Food Trust chief executive-designate Linda Cregan said too many people who worked with children were having to go above and beyond the call of duty to try to protect children from the effects of hunger and poor diet.
Such a program would lead to widespread inflation, more hunger and political instability in poor countries around the world, and slower global economic growth.
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Rights activist and protester Abdel-Rahman Barman said conditions at the prison are "very poor" and that at least two of the men there are on hunger strike.
Mr Borlaug called them naysayers and elitists, who had never known hunger but thought, for the health of the planet, that the poor should go without good food.
To take a particular example, while a slim majority thought it very or fairly likely that people in rich countries will generally live to be 100 in 25 years' time, a similar majority thought that hunger in poor countries would also increase many more than expected the world to beat starvation.
The Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas donates meals from its 21 restaurants and 19 bars to Hands for Hunger, a local humanitarian organisation that supports poor local families, while the Pret a Manger sandwich shop chain donated more than 2.5 million food products to UK charities for the homeless in 2012.
But instead of hunger, poor nutrition and an obesity epidemic now pose the greatest food-related threats to the town's poorest residents.
With massive balance sheets and shareholders with the patience of Job, some may persevere through several years of poor returns in their hunger to conquer Manhattan.
On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
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