I watched the video about Ethiopia for today, and it reminded me a lot of what we discussed in week 5 concerning global hunger. There is such a desperate need for people in developing countries to be trained in how to properly farm their lands so that they do not overuse it and destroy its fertility. If organizations and governments could recognize and take aggressive actions to address these land issues and realize that addressing these issues could help to alleviate many of the other problems that develop as a result of them, then I think that a huge step forward could be made. I also thought the video called UNDP HDR Water and Environment was interesting. The main recommendations of getting the government to make sincere policy change, however, didn't really seem realistic. The policy changes concerning sanitation and water in Western Europe and the US that were so effective in lowering the child mortality rates in recent history were instituted by governments that cared about the social welfare of its people because it was the people who were running the governments. In a lot of these African countries, there is so much corruption and so little power for the people to have any say in policy that these reforms are just not going to happen unless the international community puts more pressure on the governments to do something about it.