Globalisation opens up huge opportunities for improving the conditions in which the poorest people on earth live. The great danger, however, is that, whether because of myopia or greed, we fail to translate these opportunities into actions. This risk is real: unless we take action to ensure that a fair share of the benefits of globalisation reach the poor, they will be bypassed.
With a famine declared in parts of Somalia, almost 1 billion people living in chronic hunger worldwide, 1.5 billion people overweight or obese, and possibly another 2 billion suffering from various forms of mineral and vitamin deficiency, more than half of humanity is threatened with bad health and premature death because of bad nutrition.
