And basically we can be the first ones to say that the emperor has no new clothes. So we have been able to take very radical positions. We have been able to honestly answer questions on whether policies benefit Third World countries or colonize them further. Currently, in our 25th year at the Institute, we continue to do research, analysis, and advocacy for action on issues of hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation. But in these 25 years, we have realized that we can no longer talk about hunger and only look at Asia, or Africa, or Latin and Central America countries.
Hunger is a problem which is at our doorstep.
When we talk about structural adjustment programs, the policies of the World Bank and IMF and their impact on third world communities, we've started to include our own community in the United States, and look at how America has been adjusted. Whether it is through welfare reform, whether it's the Contract with America, we see the same policies which balance the budgets on the backs of the poor, policies that work for corporate interests. So at Food First right now, we're dedicated to ensuring everyone's right to be able to feed oneself, whether that means land reform or whether it means a living wage job. There is a growing South in the North, and the elites in the South have more in common with the elites in the North. So basically we are challenging this structural problem of the growing disparity between the rich and the poor.