ABSTRACT
In the 1970s, the international community continued to organize a range of international summits, conferences and meetings at which countries, through their policy-makers, agreed to take actions. For the long-term view, the challenge was more serious, though there might be a relatively good global food supply in 2020. The Food and Agriculture Organization proposed a global Food/for All Campaign and launched a Special Programme on Food Production in Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries. The global trading system must become more effective, in view of the fact that it encompassed only 10 per cent of the world grain production in the mid-1990s. The resolutions of the United Nation World Food Conference in 1974 emphasized increased food production in developing countries, offers of food aid and more liberal food trade. Almost 100 countries met in early 2006 at the United Nations Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.
