ABSTRACT
The Bellagio Declaration, adopted in 1989, called for global action to end half the world’s hunger before the year 2000 through four achievable goals, one of which was the elimination of vitamin A and iodine deficiencies. This goal was incorporated in the Declaration on the Rights of the Child developed at the World Summit For Children in 1990. National leaders and international agencies reaffirmed their commitment to these goals in Montreal in 1991 at the “Ending Hidden Hunger” conference. In 1992, at the International Conference on Nutrition, the most important global forum to debate nutrition since the 1974 World Food Conference, 159 countries pledged commitment to a set of goals and objectives, including a reaffirmation to eliminate vitamin A and iodine deficiencies by the year 2000.
