The hungry billion simply can’t wait. Tell Obama to act now.

Last month, President Obama joined world leaders for the annual G20 summit to address some of the world’s most pressing problems, including global hunger.

What did our leaders accomplish?

Not enough.

Despite promises to dramatically reduce hunger, world leaders took no new steps to address the one billion people who go to bed hungry every night.

This inaction cannot be allowed to continue. The hungry billion simply can’t wait.

Sign our petition to President Obama urging him to build on his leadership on hunger, to keep his promises, and to become a true hunger hero >

This September, the president has a unique opportunity to show his commitment to ending hunger when he speaks at the United Nations summit to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals. Ten years ago world leaders promised to halve hunger by 2015. With only 5 years left to go there are more people hungry than ever before.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Funding sustainable agriculture and nutrition programs could literally halve the number of people who go hungry every night.

Brazil is proof that this is possible. In just six years, they cut child hunger by 73%.

When President Obama steps up to the podium at the UN, we want him to call on the world community to end the hunger scandal and to take specific action to cut hunger in half by the 2015 deadline. Sign our petition today >

In partnership with the leading anti-poverty organization ActionAid, we are calling on President Obama to support a global rescue package for the hungry, and to specifically target women farmers and sustainable agriculture as a means to end global hunger forever.

Together, we’re launching a petition asking President Obama to take these steps. Our goal is to help ActionAid deliver at least 20,000 signatures before the UN summit in September.

Please join us and sign today >

Thanks for taking action,

– The Change.org team in partnership with ActionAid