World Food Security

1. Front Matter

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2. 1945–70. Early Attempts: FAO’s Pioneering Work

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   2. FAO’s Origins

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      Pages 3-11

   3. Food Surpluses: Historical Background

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      Pages 12-14

   4. World Food Board Proposal

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      Pages 15-31

   5. International Commodity Clearing House

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      Pages 32-36

   6. A World Food Reserve

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   7. National Food Reserves in Developing Countries

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   8. International Commodity Agreements

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      Pages 65-76

   9. Freedom from Hunger Campaign

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      Pages 77-84

   10. The Development of Food Aid

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       Pages 85-111

3. 1970–90. The World Food Crisis of the 1970s and its Aftermath

   1. Front Matter

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   2. World Food Crisis

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      Pages 115-120

   3. World Food Conference 1974

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      Pages 121-149

   4. International Undertaking on World Food Security

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      Pages 150-154

   5. An International Grain Reserves System

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      Pages 155-158

   6. International Emergency Food Reserve

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      Pages 159-162

   7. Global Information and Early Warning System

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   8. International Trade, Stability and Agricultural Adjustment

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   9. World Food Council

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.

• Developing Countries
• development
• international trade
• WTO

'With masterly attention to detail and sources, John Shaw traces the twists and turns of the evolving story of world food security. The strength and originality of Shaw's account is its comprehensiveness, never losing the storyline but bridging the macro and the micro, commodity agreements and global reserves, human rights and early warning systems and the roles of all the UN agencies involved. This fascinating account provides another piece in the jigsaw of the UN's contributions to economic and social governance over the last 60 years and the lessons to be drawn for facing the challenges of the years ahead.' - Professor Sir Richard Jolly, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and the UN Intellectual History Project, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA

'Hunger and under-nutrition provide the graphic images which drive an oft-stated passion for international development - by politicians and ordinary citizens. Why, then, are hunger reduction targets so often missed? John Shaw reminds us that passion and commitment need to be complemented with the hard grind of policy and institutional change. His authoritative history illustrates the frustrations, but also the hope. Hunger in the world is falling partly because we have acted collectively to make it so.' - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

D. JOHN SHAW was associated with the United Nations World Food Programme for over thirty years, almost from the start of its operations in 1963, latterly as Economic Adviser and Chief of its Policy Affairs Service. He was also a Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Bank. Previously, he was a postgraduate in Agricultural Economics at the University of Oxford, UK, Senior Lecturer in Rural Economy at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Fellow in Agricultural Economics and a founder member of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He has written extensively on development, food security and food aid issues and now serves on the International Editorial Board of the journal Food Policy.

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