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At the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome, it was unanimously resolved that all governments should strive to ensure that by 1984 ‘no child, woman, or man goes to bed hungry and that no human being’s physical or mental potential is stunted by malnutrition.’ Unfortunately, available statistics show that the number of people going to bed hungry in 1981 was higher than in 1974.
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Swaminathan, M.S. (1983). Relevance of Protein Improvement in Plant Breeding. In: Gottschalk, W., Müller, H.P. (eds) Seed Proteins. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6801-1_1
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