After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again

31 Juli 2019

Guest Post

July 31, 2019

After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again


Jessica Fanzo


Derek Byerlee

The first UN Conference on Food and Agriculture, held in 1943, urged a focus on nutrition in the fight against hunger. Yet it took decades for the global community to take that message to heart, Jessica Fanzo and Derek Byerlee write.