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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: CORRESPONDENCE, WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF: Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: World Food Day
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THE OF the LINITED
to
SEAL
STATES
World Food Day, 1981
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The well-being of all people depends fundamentally upon an adequate and
reliable supply of food.
The United States is blessed with abundant land, fertile soil, adequate water,
and a favorable climate. Upon this natural base, Americans have erected a
sound system of agriculture, founded on the right of private property owner-
ship, the opportunity to earn rewards for honest toil and investment, the
freedom to exchange in the marketplace, the availability of essential credit,
the application of new scientific discoveries and technologies, and the prima-
cy of the independent family farm. The result has been an unparalleled
agricultural bounty, capable of feeding our own people and millions of people
around the world.
Today, many nations lack either the natural endowments or the system of
incentives to private enterprise that are critical to successful agriculture.
Many millions of people, particularly in the Third World, and where govern-
ment policies have denied land ownership and market incentives to their
farmers, are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Americans have traditionally been generous in sharing our agricultural abun-
dance and technology with those less fortunate than ourselves. Since the
beginning of the Food for Peace program in 1954, more than 387 million tons of
American food aid, valued at more than $30 billion, have been provided to the
hungry peoples of the world. American agricultural development assistance
programs have helped peoples all over the world to improve their food
production.
Our efforts to alleviate hunger have complemented those of other members of
the international community. We salute particularly the tireless efforts of the
Food and Agriculture Organization which, on World Food Day, celebrates
thirty-six years of service in the effort to alleviate hunger and malnutrition.
To focus worldwide public attention on the world's food problem, 147 member
nations of the Food and Agriculture Organization have unanimously urged
individual nations to commemorate October 16 as World Food Day. The
Congress of the United States has responded by adopting a Joint Resolution in
support of this objective.
On this occasion, let us rededicate ourselves to continuing and strengthening
our efforts to assist the people of other lands to work toward the elimination
of hunger, to develop strong agricultural bases built upon sound principles,
and to engage in mutually beneficial commercial trade between our countries.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim October 16, 1981, as "World Food Day", and do
call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate
ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of
October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixth.
Ronald Reagan