Anyone who believes that Canada's best or primary response to world hunger is to advocate for birth control, is seriously out of touch with what Canada actually does.
Example. My school, a small agricultural school, partners with nations like Ethiopia to help diversify and strengthen their agricultural system.
My stats professor is the Director of the Post-Harvest Management to Improve Livelihoods Project, and is from Ethiopia. Ethiopia has staggeringly large loss of produce post-harvest, up to 60% for some crops. Cutting that post-harvest loss will make more food available for a hungry country, and improve the economy of the rural farming communities. It's an achievable goal, to export knowledge to help expand Ethiopian agricultural technology and productivity.
An investment of $3 million, given by the Canadian International Development Agency will produce huge benefits to this country as their agricultural system improves it's efficiency, and their knowledge sector grows.
He's also involved in a project seeking to improve agricultural sustainability in Ethiopia. Read
here if you'd like to see more.
That's just one two-part example, of many that the CIDA makes possible.
