Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Heather.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't think it's possible to end hunger by 2030 with the conflicts. I do believe, as I said earlier, that if we can end most of these conflicts, I have no doubt we can end world hunger. Consider that 200 years ago, 95% of the people on the planet were in extreme poverty. We've

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Heather, you know if you had asked me this, probably, three years ago, I would have said I had 0% confidence. The reason I may be a little more confident right now is that in the last five, four or three years, if you turned on the television, it was nothing but Trump, Trump, Tru

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We've been talking and hearing from many different political parties with regard to this issue, from the Green Party in Germany and others in Europe. We all realize we've got a very unique window before us, and we've got to respond. The last thing we want to do is to end up at th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'd probably have to sit down and specifically look at Canada, but one thing we are recommending is that you don't get into import and export bans. Please make certain that on the purchasing side, there's transparency. There are many different issues to be looked at. We're talkin

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I was talking to the CEO of Yara, which is one of the world's largest producers of fertilizers. Not to get into all of those details, but if you don't put fertilizer on a particular crop, you could lose 50% of the yield. You can get into what types of fertilizers...and all these

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, sir, before Ukraine, Haiti was a very serious problem. About 4.5 million Haitians, which is about 45% of the population, are projected to be severely hungry inside that country. I was there just a couple of months ago, and the corruption, the problems and the gangs are now b

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  You just bingoed the problem. When I joined the World Food Programme, I had a lot of questions. There were 80 million people marching to starvation. That jumped to 135 million, and almost all of that was due to man-made conflicts. This is what I've really been very vocal about in

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, as you can imagine, I get this question from governments around the world. You'll get this question: Why should I send money to Chad, Niger or Guatemala when I have road problems, bridge problems, school problems or health care problems in my own district? My answer is re

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That might not be a good example. If that same Syrian, Heather, ends up in Berlin or Brussels, let's say, the humanitarian support package is $70 per day. Let me give you another example, this one on the United States border. The Washington Post did an an article about the Uni

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  When you have conflict and food insecurity, it's always the women and children who suffer the most. All studies show that. More important than a study, anecdotal evidence from what we see on the ground is a clear indication of that. This is when we come in, when we set up our sys

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Heather, thank you. It's hard to believe, whether it's Ukraine or not, with Ukraine for example going from a bread basket to bread lines. We don't want to take food from the children in Chad to give to the children in Ukraine. That's the last thing we want to do. That's why wer

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think what you just stated is pretty much the fact that we're all still struggling on this humanitarian corridor, whether it's personnel moving in or moving out, or food, medicines and other supplies moving in or out. Mariupol is still a catastrophe. I think we're all doing eve

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, there are a minimum of about 38 countries, but let me give you a couple more examples. Syria continues to deteriorate as we speak. For Lebanon, who would have ever believed that we are now scaling up to reach 1.5 million Lebanese people—not Syrian refugees in Lebanon; we are