Real defense spending ensures good food for all (Geoff Tansky Blog)

Geoff Tansky Blog published a blogpost on how food security must remain a priority. As Covid-19 exacerbates inequalities nationally and globally, more and more people are becoming food insecure in both richer and poorer countries. Ceres2030, a research group headed by Cornell University, IFPRI, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), estimate that to reach the zero-hunger goal by 2030 some $33bn/year is needed, with $14bn from donors and the rest from affected countries. On April 16, 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.”