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‘Within a decade no child will go to bed hungry?’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2007

John B. Mason
John B. Mason
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United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN), World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva, 27, Switzerland
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The Lord Boyd Orr Memorial Lecture
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 55 , Issue 1B , March 1996 , pp. 621 - 640
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