A World Food Reserve

D. John Shaw

Chapter 5 in World Food Security, 2007, pp 37-57 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The need for some form of international management of global food reserves was not forgotten. The first half of the 1950s witnessed ‘a long and at times agitated phase’ of international activity on this subject (FAO, 1975). Responding to ECOSOC and the UN General Assembly resolutions regarding the problem of food in times of emergency, procedures were evolved under the leadership of the FAO director-general: to investigate threats of localized famine; initiate intergovernmental consultations; and bring about ‘prompt, concerted and effective assistance’. At the same time, in a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 1954,7 FAO was requested to conduct an in-depth study of the then popular concept of a ‘world food reserve’ (WFR) (FAO, 1956).

Keywords: Recipient Country; Food Reserve; Food Stock; Buffer Stock; Chronic Malnutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230589780_5

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