Implementation of World Food Conference Recommendations: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, May 1, [Nov. 6] 1975, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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action activities Agricultural Development agricultural production areas Assembly bilateral Chairman Committee on Food CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Consultative Group coordination crops developing countries developing nations donors Economic effective efforts emphasis established exporting food aid Food Aid Policies food and agricultural Food Assistance food deficit food reserve Fund for Agricultural global grain reserves Group on Food IFAD implementation important improve institutions International Development International Fund International Undertaking International Wheat Council iron deficiency anemia LIBRARY OF CONGRESS major MARTIN meeting ment million tons MURPHY organizations participate planning population priority Production and Investment projects proposed recommendations requested Rome rural development Senator HUMPHREY seriously affected countries session small farmers supply tion U.S. Government Undertaking on World United Nations USDA vitamin World Bank World Food Conference World Food Council world food problem World Food Program World Food Security world food situation
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Page 98 - UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme...
Page 2 - ... that within a decade no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread, and that no human being's future and capacities will be stunted by malnutrition, 2.
Page 91 - Absolute poverty is a condition of life so limited by illiteracy, malnutrition, disease, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to deny its victims the very potential of the genes with which they are born. In effect, it is life at the margin of existence.
Page 93 - States shall take measures aimed at securing additional benefits for the international trade of developing countries so as to achieve a substantial increase in their foreign exchange earnings, the diversification of their exports, the acceleration of the rate of growth of their trade...
Page 113 - ... but also to support, for a longerterm solution, rational population policies ensuring to couples the right to determine the number and spacing of births, freely and responsibly, in accordance with national needs within the context of an overall development strategy.
Page 98 - Council, to serve as a co-ordinating mechanism to provide over-all, integrated and continuing attention for the successful co-ordination and follow-up of policies concerning food production, nutrition, food security, food trade and food aid, as well as other...
Page 93 - Every State has the duty to cooperate in promoting a steady and increasing expansion and liberalization of world trade and an improvement in the welfare and living standards of all peoples, in particular those of developing countries.
Page 98 - FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Page 86 - We have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We need only the will.
Page 96 - ... and at the Rome Conference in the context of other meetings held under the auspices of the UN : the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, first of the series ; the Special Session of the General Assembly on raw materials and development in the Spring of 1974 ; the World Population Conference in Bucharest in August, 1974 ; the...