"A Catastrophic Event in Food." With Amb. Cindy McCain
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Cindy McCain is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture which leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. She is the widow of former Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee for President, John McCain. In 2020 she endorsed Joe Biden for president. She has a long history with helping people in need. From 1988 to 1995, she founded and operated a nonprofit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, which organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-stricken or war-torn third-world areas.
Today Bill featured the work of the World Central Kitchen run by Chef Jose Andres. They have served millions of meals in disaster areas and war zones, including over a million meals in and around Ukraine. You can support their work by visiting the World Central Kitchen website at WCK.org.
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| 1:06.3 | Welcome, friends and neighbors. Hello again from Rome and the beautiful American Academy in Rome. |
| 1:18.5 | Like in the United States, the big news here in Italy is still the war in Ukraine, not only the devastating destruction inside Ukraine, but the impact of the war far beyond Ukraine. |
| 1:30.8 | In fact, the United Nations reported this week that the war in Ukraine has unleashed a threefold perfect storm of consequences that's already disrupting the flow of food, fuel, and money in over 107 countries. Worldwide, according to the UN, 1.7 billion people |
| 1:41.1 | already living in poverty and already hammered by COVID and climate change |
| 1:47.0 | are now dealing with shortages in food, fuel and cash as a result of the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:55.0 | Aiding those countries and helping those people survive is the mission of six different UN agencies. We're considered so important |
| 2:04.0 | that in addition to our ambassador to Italy, the United States has a special ambassador |
| 2:10.6 | based here in Rome to the UN agencies for food and agriculture. And to that important post, |
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