At the November 1974 UN World Food Conference in Rome, representatives of 133 governments called for the eradication of the scourge of hunger and malnutrition. They pledged that within a decade – 1984 – no child will go to bed hungry and that no human being’s future will be stunted by malnutrition. At the November 1996 World Food Security Summit held in Rome leaders of government declared that it was unconscionable that over 800 million people, most of who live in the developing world were hungry. The leaders observed that the scourge of hunger and food insecurity have global dimensions and...
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