In November 1996, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) convened a World Food Summit in Rome, twenty-two years after the 1974 World Food Conference had declared the goal of eradicating hunger 'within a decade'. The aim of the 1996 summit was to endorse a policy statement and a plan of action to address the issues of sustainable food production, poverty, trade policies and investment. The extracts which follow are taken from the PANOS briefing document on the issue, Feast or Famine?
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