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Vital to the Creation: Interview with Alan Berg

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Alan Berg, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, is internationally acknowledged as the person most responsible for placing nutrition on the international development agenda and for having it solidly ensconced in the programmes of the US government and the World Bank. His seminal 1973 book The Nutrition Factor, written while a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, was nominated for the National Book Award. Berg worked during the Kennedy and Johnson years at The White House where he co-chaired a White House Task Force on Nutrition, was active in expanding the scope of the US government’s Food for Peace programme, served in India where he headed the US government’s first international nutrition programme, and served from 1973 to 1995 as the senior nutrition officer of the World Bank, where he was called ‘the conscience of the Bank on hunger issues’. In 2008, Berg was honored as one of the first recipients of the UN Achievement Award for Lifelong Service to Nutrition, being introduced then as ‘a global giant in nutrition history’.

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  • James Levinson, 2013. "Vital to the Creation: Interview with Alan Berg," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 56(1), pages 24-36, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:56:y:2013:i:1:p:24-36
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