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Article: SCHOLAR FORESEES END TO HUNGER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 1988
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Although more than 1 billion people worldwide still struggle
daily in the shadow of starvation, the end of hunger is in sight
for the first time in history, a Brown University professor said
yesterday.
World food production first matched basic food demand in the
1960s and continues to increase as a result of technological
innovation, said Robert W. Kates, director of Brown's World Hunger
Program, during a symposium on "the future of hunger."
Today the basic dietary needs of the world's 5 billion people
can be met with only 80 percent of the world's food production, he
said, but the failure of human values and institutions has skewed
worldwide food allocations, creating waste in the ...