The United
States
and
World Food Security
In November 1996, 186 countries adopted the Rome Declaration and World Food Summit Plan of Action, which set the goal of "reducing the number of undernourished by half no later than 2001," and identify actions which nations should take to achieve that goal. The United States Government subsequently adopted the goal as a domestic target as well, and has embarked on the development of a U.S. Action Plan on Food Security to strengthen what the United States--government, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors of civil society--is already doing to reduce hunger and malnutrition both at home and abroad.
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We are "laying the foundation
for ... an unprecedented U.S. effort to uproot
hunger wherever it occurs---whether it's in
sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia or our own inner
cities and rural communities."
