World Conference on Overcoming Global Hunger, 1993

Abstract

To register its concern, and in keeping with the institution’s motto, ‘Our dream is a world without poverty’, the World Bank organized and hosted a World Conference on Overcoming Global Hunger that was held at The American University in Washington, DC on 30 November and 1 December 1993. The conference was attended by over 1,200 participants, including former US President Jimmy Carter, the UN secretary-general, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the president of the World Bank, Lewis T. Preston, and the administrator of USAID, Brian Atwood.¹² The World Bank had responded to the call of US Congressman Tony Hall’s appeal¹³ for a conference to be organized at which those most knowledgeable about hunger and malnutrition in the developing world could meet to formulate an agenda for action (Serageldin and Landell-Mills, 1994).