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- Title
THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD MOVEMENT.
- Authors
Black, John D.
- Abstract
The intent of this article is to describe, interpret and evaluate the movement toward better human feeding that was spearheaded by the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture at Hot Springs, Virginia, in May, 1943, and is now being forwarded by the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture until such time as a "permanent organization" can get under way. The dual aspects of the problem, food and nutrition, suggest the bifurcated origin of the international food movement. On the one hand it has sprung from an interest in adequate food for the poorer members of society, in making democracy mean at least enough to eat. On the other, it is an outgrowth of the recent discoveries of the newer knowledge of nutrition. The time and place of initiation of that part of the movement that sprang from the newer knowledge of nutrition are the League of Nations, in the early 1930's. The Health Organization of the League had been working for some time on nutrition as a factor in health, and the International Labor Office had approached it from the standpoint of the welfare of labor.
- Subjects
HOT Springs (Va.); VIRGINIA; UNITED States; HUNGER prevention; FOOD; ECONOMICS; NUTRITION; LEAGUE of Nations; UNITED Nations
- Publication
American Economic Review, 1943, Vol 33, Issue 4, p791
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article