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and die from malnutrition and hunger in developing world; population growth;
the income factor; the state of the world's children; the quest for education for all;
employment, productivity and poverty reduction; and international trade. The
dangerous division and lack of agreement, particularly between the United States
and Europe, on the key issues of: genetically modified crops and food; climate
change; globalization; as well as the breakdown of multilateral negotiations on
liberalizing world trade are outlined as they can have a major impact on future
world food security. The history ends with a call for leadership and coordinated
and cohesive action to achieve the millennium development goals, including
halving the proportion of the world's population living in abject and dehuman-
izing poverty and hunger, not only as a moral imperative but for the sake of just
and equitable world economic and social development, and peace.

Much of the material contained in this history appears in the public domain

for the first time, or has long since been forgotten. I hope this account will serve
as a point of reference for all those interested and involved in world food security
issues and concerns in organizations of the UN system, bilateral aid agencies and
NGOs, and academia and the general public, who come to the subject from many
different perspectives and disciplines.

My collection of documents and papers used in the writing of this history has

been deposited in the British Library of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex, UK.

D. John Shaw

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