HUNGER IN A WORLD OF PLENTY

Synopsis
It is one of the more serious and complex problems of our time: Hunger. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), our world would have the resources to nourish 12 billion people. Yet worldwide, one billion people are suffering from chronic hunger. How is this possible?  David Syz, the former State Secretary for Economic Affairs, seeks answers to exactly this question and is digging deeper: What influences do subsidies from the Western world have on hunger? What role do speculators in the stock exchanges play? How far does political responsibility in the international community and in each individual country go in order to fight hunger? And what does the African farmer's daily fight against hunger look like? The movie brings in the Farm Belt of the USA, in the mountains of Switzerland, to Senegal and Ethiopia.

On his worldwide search for clues and solutions, David Syz discovers astonishing  answers and these are not so far out of reach.

Panel discussion
Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, World Trade Institute and Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute, University of Bern and NCCR Trade Regulation

Markus Giger, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

Markus Bürli, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

Chair: Beat Glur, Journalist

Entrance: 5.-
Kino Kunstmuseum, Hodlerstrasse 8, Bern