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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
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Folder Title: World Food Day
Box: 82 (1987)
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THE OF THE UNITED
10
SEAL
STATES
World Food Day, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
This is the seventh successive year in which people everywhere, including
Americans, have observed World Food Day in a spirit of rededication to the
continuing fight against world hunger. We Americans are a people with strong
ties to other nations and with a long record of humanitarian concern for the
hungry around the world. We are blessed with the wherewithal to help: a
bountiful land whose fertile soil, moderate climate, and economic and political
freedom provide the keys not only to abundance here at home but to a surplus
which can be shared with others in grave need around the globe.
Progress has been made in averting the threat of famine in many regions, but
widespread poverty and hunger, especially in developing countries, constantly
challenge us to ease the human suffering they cause and to preserve the
human potential they deplete. As hunger robs people of health and strength, it
also saps the economic systems to which they might otherwise contribute,
upsets the social order, frustrates progress at every level, and engenders
hopelessness and instability.
Our Nation has always been-and continues to be-deeply committed to
helping feed the hungry wherever they may be, and to accomplish this goal an
extensive network of private and public efforts has been established. But
additional steps are clearly necessary. Greater success in the fight against
hunger will require the implementation of worldwide agricultural and trade
policies designed to promote economic growth and stability for all nations,
developing and developed alike. Schemes of narrowly focused government
intervention must be replaced by systems that respond to the production and
trade decisions made by free individuals. Farmers must have ready access to
the international marketplace and the opportunity to compete freely and to
sell the goods they produce. Nations, if they are to move toward self-reliance
in agriculture, must install systems that promote private ownership, reward
effort and efficiency, and recognize the dignity of those who work the land.
The United States has established an initiative to End Hunger in Africa by the
end of the century through economic growth and private sector development.
All U.S. bilateral and multilateral economic programs and policies are orient-
ed toward this goal. But U.S. government programs cannot do it alone. The
participation and commitment of Africans, other donors, and the private
sector-volunteer and business, both American and international-are essen-
tial.
In recognition of the desire and commitment of the American people to end
world hunger, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 110, has designated
October 16, 1987, as "World Food Day" and authorized and requested the
President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim October 16, 1987, as World Food Day, and I call
upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate
activities to explore ways in which our Nation can contribute further to the
elimination of hunger in the world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of
October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.
Ronald Reagon