Josette Sheeran Quotes

Josette Sheeran is the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti. She is also President and CEO of the Asia Society since May 2013.Previously Sheeran was Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

She was the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme , appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf in November 2006. Prior to this post, she served as the United States Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs in the State Department.

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Famous Josette Sheeran Quotes

“I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, "No more. No more are we going to accept this."”

Josette Sheeran

&quot;Ending Hunger Now&quot; TED Talk (July 2011) http://www.ted.com/talks/josette_sheeran_ending_hunger_now.html <br class="br">Context: I believe we&#x27;re living at a time in human history where it&#x27;s just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don&#x27;t know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets. I am so honored to be here with some of the world&#x27;s top innovators and thinkers. And I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, &quot;No more. No more are we going to accept this.&quot; And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.

“I believe we're living at a time in human history where it's just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don't know where to find a cup of food.”

Josette Sheeran

&quot;Ending Hunger Now&quot; TED Talk (July 2011) http://www.ted.com/talks/josette_sheeran_ending_hunger_now.html <br class="br">Context: I believe we&#x27;re living at a time in human history where it&#x27;s just simply unacceptable that children wake up and don&#x27;t know where to find a cup of food. Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets. I am so honored to be here with some of the world&#x27;s top innovators and thinkers. And I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, &quot;No more. No more are we going to accept this.&quot; And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.

“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.”

Josette Sheeran

The Lancet Volume 371, Issue 9608, Pages 180 - 181, (19 January 2008) http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2807%2961870-4/fulltext <br class="br">Context: With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa — amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs — it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world’s most vulnerable people.”

Josette Sheeran

&quot;Filling empty bellies is no longer enough&quot; (20 September 2011) at UK Government Department for International Development web site http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2011/09/filling-empty-bellies-is-no-longer-enough/

“I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.”

Josette Sheeran

Addressing the World Food Programme meeting, 21 September 2009 http://www.wfp.org/eds-centre/speeches/wfp-executive-director-josette-sheeran-millennium-promise-event

“A silent tsunami which knows no borders is sweeping the world.”

Josette Sheeran

Regarding world hunger; reported in Graeme Taylor, Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World (2008), p. 46.

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