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'''Binay Ranjan Sen''', [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (1 January 1898, [[Dibrugarh]], India - 12 June 1993, [[Calcutta]], India), was an Indian diplomat and Indian Civil Service officer. He served as [[Director General]] (1956–1967) of the [[UN]]'s [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] (FAO). He drew on his experience as relief commissioner (1942–1943) during the [[Bengal famine of 1943]] to build the FAO from a data-gathering bureaucracy into a major force against world hunger.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}<br />
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==Biography==<br />
He studied at the [[Scottish Church College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]] and subsequently at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>Sen, Asit. ''Glimpses of College History: The Students and the Teachers'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 233.</ref> Sen joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in [[Bengal]] in 1922.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32763/pages/7802 London Gazette, 3 November 1922]</ref> His work as director general of food for all India (1943–1946), for which he was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1944,<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36309/supplements/7 London Gazette, 1 January 1944]</ref> convinced him that [[hunger]] and [[malnutrition]] were crucial issues in the modern world.<br />
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He took his concerns to the international stage as a member of India's first delegation to the [[UN]] (1947), as [[Indian Ambassador to the United States]], and several other countries including [[Italy]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Japan]], and [[Mexico]]. He worked on a variety of FAO projects before being named [[Director General]] in 1956. While he was the Relief Commissioner(1942–43)in Bengal during Bengal famine,his mission of preventing hunger was set. In 1960, saying half the world's population was malnourished,Sen announced the Freedom from Hunger campaign. "Hunger is neither inevitable nor irremediable," he added, "it is within our power to bring this old affliction under control."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/obituaries/binay-ranjan-sen-is-dead-at-94-led-un-drive-against-hunger.html|title=Binay Ranjan Sen is Dead at 94; Led U.N. Drive Against Hunger|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 June 1993|last1=Lambert|first1=Bruce}}</ref> This led to the 1963 World Food Congress in [[Washington, D.C.]], attended by representatives from more than 100 countries.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Freedom from Hunger]], US charity associated with the UN campaign<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* ''Towards a Newer World'' by B. R. Sen, published by Tycooly International Publishing Ltd, Dublin ({{ISBN|0907567274}})<br />
* ''The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965'' by Amy L. S. Staples. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2005 ({{ISBN|0873388496}})<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.fao.org/tc/awards/sen/ On the B.R.Sen Award - 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212024313/http://www.fao.org/tc/awards/sen/ |date=12 February 2018 }}<br />
*[http://www.fao.org/tc/awards/sen/procedure_en.htm On the B.R.Sen Award - 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222033410/http://www.fao.org/tc/awards/sen/procedure_en.htm |date=22 December 2019 }}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060107015121/http://www.womensgroup.org/WORLDFOO.html On the Second World Food Congress in The Hague, Netherlands 16-30 June 1970]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060712213540/http://www.welthungerhilfe.de/430.html Freedom from Hunger Campaign, Germany]<br />
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