World food problems: A note on the World Food Conference, Rome, 5-16 November 1974
Barbero, G.
European Review of Agricultural Economics 2(2): 151-168
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0165-1587 DOI: 10.1093/erae/2.2.151Document Number: 519942
The scope of this note is twofold. Firstly, an attempt is made to appraise the overall significance of the Rome Conference and the possibilities and limitations of what appear to be its main conclusions. In so doing, and in view of the wide coverage by the press of the work of the Conference, it is assumed that the topics discussed in Rome and the large number of resolutions adopted are by now sufficiently known. Secondly, some of the issues raised and lines of action proposed in the article by A. Simantov (abstracted above) are briefly reviewed in the light of the information available by the Rome Conference. This approach seems justified, among other reasons, by the consideration that Simantov's article was written some time before the Conference.