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Four important and influential policy statements on hunger that have served as national and international standards and guides for action have been reprinted here as a resource. They are (1) the Bellagio Declaration, which was produced by 24 international experts meeting to address the problem of world hunger in 1989 at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy; (2) the Medford Declaration to End Hunger in the U. S., which was designed to be a domestic equivalent of the Bellagio Declaration, was produced in April of 1990 at Tufts University by U. S. organizations concerned with domestic hunger; (3) the position statement of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) that was approved by the House of Delegates in 1990; and (4) the position statement of the Canadian Dietetic Association (CDA) that was approved by the executive of the CDA in 1991. Aiken's brief introduction to these four statements critically examines them to draw attention to some of their strengths and weaknesses and to help clarify some of their implicit normative assumptions and implications.
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William Aiken is Professor of Philosophy and the Interim Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham College (a liberal arts college for women in Pittsburgh). His research and writing has recently been focused on some of the value and ethical issues surrounding agricultural practice, human development, human population growth, and environment conservation.
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Aiken, W. Dignified food security for all. Agric Hum Values 11, 84–86 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530420
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530420