Josette Sheeran citations

Josette Sheeran, une diplomate américaine née en 1954, est, depuis avril 2012, vice-présidente du forum économique mondial.

Elle fut sous-secrétaire d'État aux affaires économiques, commerciales et agricoles dans l'administration Bush, un poste qu'elle occupa à partir du 23 août 2005 jusqu’à quelle soit nommée onzième directrice générale du Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations unies de mars 2007 à avril 2012. Elle a été nommée à ce poste par le secrétaire général, Kofi Annan, et le directeur général de la FAO , Jacques Diouf, le 7 novembre 2006. Wikipedia  

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“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."”

"Ending Hunger Now" TED Talk (July 2011) http://www.ted.com/talks/josette_sheeran_ending_hunger_now.html
Contexte: 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. 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'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, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." 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.”

"Ending Hunger Now" TED Talk (July 2011) http://www.ted.com/talks/josette_sheeran_ending_hunger_now.html
Contexte: 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. 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'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, "No more. No more are we going to accept this." 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.”

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
Contexte: 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.

“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.”

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.”

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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