World Food Conference

World Food Conference From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "World Food Conference" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The first World Food Conference was held in Rome in 1974 by the United Nations under the auspices of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in the wake of the devastating famine in Bangladesh in the preceding two years. Perhaps the most famous statement made at the conference was by then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who made the declaration that within 10 years no child would go to bed hungry. In the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, governments attending the World Food Conference proclaimed that "every man, woman and child has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their physical and mental faculties."[1] Among other outcomes, the conference put in place a World Food Council (subsequently disbanded) and led to follow-up World Food Conferences. See also Right to food World Food Summit References World Food Conference General Assembly (1974). "Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition". United Nations. Retrieved 18 June 2012.