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The first World Food Conference was held in Rome in 1974 (5-16 November) by the United Nations under the auspices of the UN 
The FAO commemorated this conference with the issue of a CERES Medal featuring Germaine Tillion.
FAO website
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; . (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, , translates ...
(FAO), in the wake of the devastating famine in Bangladesh in the preceding two years. The conference was headed by Sayed Marei, an Egyptian agronomist and politician.
Perhaps the most famous statement made at the conference was by then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th National Security Advisor (United States), natio ...
who made the declaration that within 10 years no child would go to bed hungry.
In the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, governments attending the World Food Conference proclaimed that ''"every man, woman and child has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their physical and mental faculties."''
Among other outcomes, the conference put in place a World Food Council (subsequently disbanded) and led to follow-up World Food Conferences.
The FAO commemorated this conference with the issue of a CERES Medal featuring Germaine Tillion.
See also
* Right to food * World Food SummitReferences
External links
FAO website
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