(RNS) The recent news about hunger and poverty is bad, but the Rev. David Beckmann remains optimistic, convinced that it’s possible to eradicate hunger in our lifetime.
A Lutheran minister, economist and president of the ecumenical anti-hunger group Bread for World, Beckmann will receive the $125,000 World Food Prize on Thursday (Oct. 14). He helped found the ONE campaign with U2’s Bono and authored a new book, “Exodus from Hunger: We Are Called to Change the Politics of Hunger.”
