Vital to the Creation: Interview with Alan Berg

James Levinson

Development, 2013, vol. 56, issue 1, 24-36

Abstract: Alan Berg, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, is internationally acknowledged as the person most responsible for placing nutrition on the international development agenda and for having it solidly ensconced in the programmes of the US government and the World Bank. His seminal 1973 book The Nutrition Factor, written while a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, was nominated for the National Book Award. Berg worked during the Kennedy and Johnson years at The White House where he co-chaired a White House Task Force on Nutrition, was active in expanding the scope of the US government’s Food for Peace programme, served in India where he headed the US government’s first international nutrition programme, and served from 1973 to 1995 as the senior nutrition officer of the World Bank, where he was called ‘the conscience of the Bank on hunger issues’. In 2008, Berg was honored as one of the first recipients of the UN Achievement Award for Lifelong Service to Nutrition, being introduced then as ‘a global giant in nutrition history’.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v56/n1/pdf/dev20131a.pdf Link to full text PDF (application/pdf)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v56/n1/full/dev20131a.html Link to full text HTML (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:develp:v:56:y:2013:i:1:p:24-36

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... es/journal/41301/PS2

Access Statistics for this article

Development is currently edited by Stefano Prato

More articles in Development from Palgrave Macmillan, Society for International Deveopment Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().