Sustainability as an innovative key element, another perspective to rethink the problem of hunger and poverty in the world

摘要

I am very pleased to present this monographic volume entitled“Sustainability as an innovative key element, another perspectiveto rethink the problem of hunger and poverty in the world”, wherewe bring together a series of relevant papers, from various scien-tific fields, within the Line of Research on hunger and poverty inthe world that is being carried out by the Catholic University ofValencia (UCV). This line of permanent research and of multidisci-plinary character falls within the framework of the Chair of CharityTheology Santo Tomás de Villanueva, which comprises a team of50 thinkers and experts contributing from different specialties,universities and research centers to try to open new channels toconsider and provide solutions to problems that challenge us andundoubtedly question us as human beings. We, as thinkers and sci-ence men of our time, with a deep humanistic vocation and a deeplyrooted ethical sensitivity at the same time, do not want, or can we,remain indifferent to the sufferings of so many men and womenwho suffer poverty and hunger in their diverse forms at the dawnof the 21st century.