POLITICS OF HUNGER AND RIGHT TO FOOD

At Rome last month, the World Food Summit's official plan of actionstr essed trade as the key element in achieving world food security and wa s based on three key assumptions: that increased trade results in high er national income and food security, trade-induced higher income will eventually trickle down and higher household incomes will automatical ly mean greater individual food security. The NGO Forum in Rome compri sing community representatives from various countries strove to challe nge these assumptions in its declaration and other documents.