For years, they helped each other provide emergency food around the globe. Now, they want to work together to prevent such needs — or reestablish self-sufficiency quickly in areas hurt by war and climate change-caused drought and floods.
The head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme and high-level officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints huddled in Salt Lake City on Monday to discuss how to keep problems triggered by conflict and climate change from escalating into emergencies — and how to help heal them when they occur.
“If you take the old approach of just handing out food, you would be there for 30 or 40 years” in suffering areas, said David Beasley, executive director of the U.