That’s the question to be pondered during the 21st annual World Food Day live teleconference featuring international food policy expert Werner Kiene Friday, Oct. 13.

"The Politics of Hunger" teleconference will be broadcast at IU Northwest’s Moraine Student Center lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

During the broadcast, the Student Government Association and other student volunteers will serve bread and soup and will be collecting monetary and non-perishable food donations for northwest Indiana’s Second Harvest Food Bank.

Also, singer-songwriter David Harris will perform during intermission.

The teleconference will feature brief comments from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former ambassador to the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate Norman Borlaug and Ann Venaman, secretary of agriculture.

Kiene, a native of Austria, brings a broad knowledge of the policymaking process and worldwide practical experience from a lifetime spent working on economic and social programs, mostly in the developing world. Linda Anderson, director of student life at IU Northwest, serves on the World Food Day committee.

"The issue of hunger could become very real, very fast," Anderson said. "Rising unemployment numbers have brought the issue home for many Americans in and outside our region."

The teleconference is sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for World Food Day, representing a coalition of 450 private voluntary organizations. The program is also supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Information Agency and the FAO. More than 150 countries observe World Food Day and more than 1,000 sites have participated in recent years.

For more information, call the Office of Student Life at 219-980-6793.

Related HP archival site: "IUB political scientist ‘dishes’ on the politics of food, hunger policy on food policy:"
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/091004/text/research.shtml