Food and Water Shortage: Path to Global Instability?
Contributed by the Global Interdependence Centre
In this podcast, from the GIC 2009 "Food and Water—Basic Challenges to International Stability" conference, Frank LoBiondo and Robert Andrews discuss the following:
- Why the U.S. should increase investment in developing nations in order to improve water and food quality
- Improving conditions in developing countries requires a multi-national effort
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Speakers
Frank LoBiondo has represented New
Jersey’s second congressional district since 1994. Congressman LoBiondo
is a member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee,
serves as the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard &
Maritime Transportation, and is on the Subcommittee on Water Resources
and the Environment and the Subcommittee on Aviation. Prior to his
election to Congress, he was elected to Cumberland County Board of
Chosen Freeholders in 1984 and has served South Jersey on the county,
state and federal levels ever since. After three years on the
Freeholders Board, he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly,
representing the First Legislative District from 1988-1994. Congressman
LoBiondo received his B.A. in business administration from St. Joseph’s
University.
Robert Andrews represents New
Jersey’s first congressional district in the U.S. House of
Representatives. He is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Health,
Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP). He has authored two laws
creating the Income Contingent Repayment Plan and Direct Student Loans.
Rep. Andrews also wrote laws to lower mortgage costs for rural
families, to protect the child visitation rights of grandparents, to
provide health and pension benefits for employees of religious
organizations, cut administrative costs for small businesses, and to
move more people from welfare to work. Rep. Andrews has served for his
entire Congressional career on the Education and Labor Committee where
he has responsibility for the health insurance, pension and labor laws
of the nation. He graduated from Bucknell University and received his
law degree from Cornell University. Before coming to Congress, he was
an attorney and an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University School
of Law.
This information is accurate as of the date of recording.
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| Length: |
42min |
| Posted: |
4/16/2009 |
| Recorded On: |
2/5/2009 |
| CE Credits: |
.5 CE |
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