World Food Strategy for the 1980s Context, Objective, and Approach

Adequate food for all people is the material foundation for all humanistic endeavour. Unfortunately, the curront world food situation is characterized by grossly inadequate total supply, large year-to-year fluctuations in the availabi lity of supply, intranational and inter-national disparities in per capita demand for food, and even greater disparity in command of the capital technology, trained personnel, and institutions nece-ssary for rapid production, growth and broad distribution of food