World Food Summit, 1996

D. John Shaw

Chapter 35 in World Food Security, 2007, pp 347-360 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Two decades after the 1974 World Food Conference, the election of a new director-general of FAO resulted in a call for another world meeting on food security. In his first policy statement to the FAO Council in May 1994, following his election in November 1993, Jacques Diouf from Senegal, the first African director-general of FAO, proposed that a World Food Summit (WFS) be held in 1996 in the context of the changes relating to the programmes, structures and policies of FAO that the FAO Conference had empowered him to make (FAO, 1994a). In making his proposal, he said The challenges facing this Organization are the challenges of Member Nations. It is Member Nations and their people who cannot accept the human tragedy of 800 million people without adequate food, be they those condemned to abject poverty and misery, be they the 192 million children whose hunger today points to deprivation of opportunities tomorrow. It is Member Nations who face the challenge of feeding 9,000 million people by the year 2030. Accordingly, it is Member Nations who rightly insist that their Organization for food and agriculture effectively help them in dealing with these challenges.

Keywords: Food Security; World Food; Food Sovereignty; National Food Security; Achieve Food Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230589780_35

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