World Food Council's Tenth Session

The World Food Council held its 10th ministerial session from 11–15 June in the Africa Hall of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, which is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting was historic: ten years had swiftly passed by since the World Food Conference met in Rome. What had been accomplished? The solemnly proclaimed resolution on the eradication of hunger had obviously not been fulfilled. In fact, the world's hungry and malnourished continue to prevail at around the half-billion number. Moreover, Africa was in the throes of a food crisis which had almost swept across that drougt-plagued continent, at least south of the Sahara.