The Cairo declaration of the World Food Council 15th ministerial session

Abstract

An interdisciplinary group of faculty at Brown University scrutinized recent interventions and proposals for ending hunger. The group culled from literature and praxis 26 sets of promising programmes and policies for eliminating regional food shortage, reducing household food poverty, and diminishing individual food deprivation. They used these to address seven of the multiple aspects of hunger: famine, food insufficiency, urban food poverty, rural food insecurity, disease and undernutrition, childhood wasting and stunting, and iodine and vitamin A deficiency. Taking into account the economic, demographic and environmental trends that could thwart effective action, the overall programme calls for an imaginative enlistment of new economic, institutional, and nongovernmental resources, as well as the best of past and ongoing efforts, to halve world hunger in the 1990s.