Third world: feast or famine? Food security in the new millennium
In: Race & class: a journal on racism, empire and globalisation, Band 38, Heft 3
ISSN: 0306-3968
In November 1996, the Food and Agriculture Organisation convened a World Food Summit in Rome, 22 yrs after the 1974 World Food Conference had declared the goal of eradicating hunger `within a decade'. The 1996 summit sought to endorse a policy statement and a plan of action to address the issues of sustainable food production, poverty, trade politics and investment. Includes extracts taken from the PANOS briefing document on the issue.