Food Wars: Hunger as a Weapon of War in 1994

In 1989, “Overcoming Hunger in the 1990s” set ending famine deaths as one of four achievable goals for halving hunger by the year 2000. Affirming food and nutrition as basic human rights, the document recognized that expanding early warning systems to monitor and respond to conditions that cause famine could eliminate most famine deaths. The remaining challenge was to deliver aid to areas created by armed conflict where denial of food was being used as a weapon.