The Global Poverty Initiative conference starts today (I'm going tomorrow). Given the deepening crisis that is happening surrounding food and its production and distribution, I'm curious to see what people will say.
Paul Farmer, the subject of "Mountains to Mountains" and the cofounder of Partners in Health, will be giving first keynote talk of the day tomorrow. A friend of mine had commented that she fairly stalked him for a few years so she can quote his speech. I'm pretty sure, though, that in light of what's happening currently, he'll have something new to talk about.
I read an article in an Australian paper that stretched my viewpoint on how big this actually is- I didn't realize there were riots happening in Egypt and Cameroon as well as Haiti. And the situation is a lot more complex, as apparently the World Bank is calling for countries to reevaluate their approach to farming. Given how reluctant people are in general to change anything about how they live their lives, and how removed from world realities people in the US are, it'll be interesting to see what the reaction to this actually is.
Anyway, 'nuff said. I'll have thoughts and reactions to the (very few, unfortunately) seminars I'm able to go to tomorrow.
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