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Acknowledgements

This history has been a long time in the making and involved much research,
travel, visits to archives and libraries, and interviewing and corresponding with
people prominent in the quest for world food and nutrition security. Without their
co-operation, it would not have been possible to have given many of the details
contained in this book, some of which are revealed publicly for the first time. In
many ways, this book is an outcome of the generosity of their time, opinions and
recollections, and their collaboration in collecting and searching through a great
deal of historical and archival material. I hope that I have adequately conveyed
my sense of indebtedness to them and, particularly, that they feel that the final
product repays my gratitude for all the help they gave me.

I begin my debts of gratitude with Professor Sir Hans Singer, to whom this

history is dedicated. My friend and mentor for over forty years, he died at the age
of 95 as this history was being completed. He devoted his long and productive
life to the service of developing countries, as shown in my biography, Sir Hans
Singer. The Life and Work of a Development Economist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Senator George McGovern, who has devoted much of his long and distinguished
public service to addressing the problem of world hunger, helped me consid-
erable through an interview with him, personal correspondence and material,
and access to his papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscripts Library at Princeton
University. Amongst other things, he played a leading role in the constructive use
of food aid as the first director of the United States Food for Peace programme
and special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, and played a key part in the
establishment of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), as shown
in my The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2001). He also served as United States Ambassador to the United
Nations food and agricultural agencies in Rome, Italy and is now WFP Goodwill
Ambassador.

I have benefited greatly from the co-operation, friendship and encouragement

of many colleagues, particularly, Professor Sir Richard Jolly, formerly director
of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK,
UNICEF deputy executive director, principal co-ordinator and architect of the
UNDP annual Human Development Report, chair of the UN Standing Committee on
Nutrition, and chair of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council,
and now co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP)
and honorary professorial fellow at IDS; Simon Maxwell, director, Edward Clay,
senior research associate, Margaret Cornell, associate editor and Joanna Adcock,
production, Development Policy Review, at the Overseas Development Institute,
London; John Mellor of John Mellor Associates, Inc., a former director general of
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC; and

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