When the World Food Conference of 1974 demanded the eradication of world hunger within the brief time span of ten years … date-attempts to prove the feasibility of greatly reducing world hunger before the advent of the 21st century. …

In view of the urgency and size of the problem how to feed the world’s population, the framework given to the recent … World Food Conference did not seem to be over-extended. The poor results, however, give again rise to the general question …