The End of Hunger – Renewed Hope for Feeding the World

Jenny Eaton Dyer (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the founder of The 2030 Collaborative. As such, she directs the Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition with support from the Eleanor Crook Foundation. Dyer formerly served as the executive director of Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit chaired by Senator Bill Frist, MD. She also served as the national faith outreach director for the DATA Foundation and The ONE Campaign, Bono's organization. She has written widely on the intersection of religion and global health. She is a contributor of Why Save Africa: Answers from around the World and a co-compiler of The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope and The aWAKE Project: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine as well as within the Vanderbilt School of Divinity. Dyer holds a BA in religion from Samford University, an MTS from Vanderbilt Divinity School, and a PhD in history and critical theories of religion from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, John, and their two children. Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and author, specializing in the intersection of faith and culture. Her books include the critically acclaimed The God Factor, Sin Boldly, The Dude Abides, BELIEBER, and Disquiet Time (coedited with Jennifer Grant). Falsani is a longtime correspondent for Religion News Service and a featured writer for Sojourners, where she was the director of new media from 2010 to 2012. She was the religion writer and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2000 to 2010, and was the faith and values columnist for the Orange County Register. In addition to her work covering religion in the United States and abroad, Falsani has written extensively about global poverty, AIDS and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and other issues affecting the developing world. In 2005, Falsani received the James O. Supple Religion Writer of the Year award from the Religion Newswriters Association, and she twice has been a finalist for the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year award. She serves as a member of the advisory board for Girls and Women at the ONE Campaign.

Introduction—Jenny Eaton Dyer



Part I: An Overview of the Problem of Hunger


1. Hunger and Your Brain: Feed the Hungry. You’ll Feel Better Too—Mike McHargue

2. The End of Hunger—Jeffrey D. Sachs

3. A Threat to Health Anywhere Is a Threat to Peace Everywhere—William H. Frist

4. The Bible, Poverty, Justice, and Christian Obedience—Ron Sider

5. A Multipronged Approach—Rudo Kwaramba-Kayombo

6. Onward to 2030—Will Moore

Esther: Oaxaca, Mexico


7. A Path to Peace and Stability—David Beasley

8. Bring Everyone to the Table—Helene Gayle

9. What to Do About Malnourished People Around the World—Tony Campolo

10. “Remember Us When You Come into Your Kingdom”: Hunger in America—Jeremy K. Everett

11. Caught in Conflict—Kimberly Flowers

12. The Possible Impossible Dream—Gabe Salguero

13. The Bread of Heaven—Jonathan Martin



Part II: The First One Thousand Days: Young Women, Mothers, and Children


14. I Am Gita—Roger Thurow

15. A Thousand Days and A Million Questions—Cathleen Falsani

Vasco: Blantyre, Malawi


16. To End Preventable Deaths in Mothers and Children, We Must End Hunger and Malnutrition—Mark K. Shriver

17. Amazzi: When You Have Enough—The Taylor Family: Steve, Debbie, and Sarah

Nighty: Pajimo, Uganda


18. Hunger and Sex Trafficking—Nikole Lim

19. From Hunger to Holistic Health—Elizabeth Uriyo and Christopher Delvaille



Part III: A Way Forward: What We Can Do


Rupa: Kathmandu, Nepal


20. When You Eat, Sit Down—Rick Bayless

21. Begin with Love—Rachel Marie Stone

22. End Hunger: Do the Thing That’s in Front of You—Tony P. Hall

23. From the Garden to the Table—Amy Grant

24. Hunger, Fasting, and Faith—Ángel F. Méndez Montoya

25. Feeding the Hungry by Raising Dignity—Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Brad Paisley

Shorty: Bombay Beach, California, USA


26. The Lamb’s Agenda—Samuel Rodriguez

27. Teach a Man to Fish—Diane Black

28. Ending Hunger Starts with Modernizing How We Deliver Food Aid—Bob Corker

29. Exodus from Hunger—David Beckmann



Acknowledgments

Next Steps: Advocacy and Philanthropy

Glossary

Notes

Contributors