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The Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Originally designated by the terms of its Constitution as an international agency for the collection and dissemination of information in the field of nutrition, food, and agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations developed a much wider field of activity during 1946, its first working year. Recognizing the need for an international agency with real administrative powers, the FAO assumed the task of helping to ameliorate the world food crisis, while at the same time setting up an organization for long-range planning and statistical work.

Type
International Organizations: Summary of Activities II. The Specialized Agencies
Information
International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1947 , pp. 121 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Article I.

2 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, First Annual Report of the Director-General to the FAO Conference, (Con 2/Gen 4), p. 15, Washington, July 5, 1946. Hereinafter cited as Report.

3 Ibid., p. 16.

4 Report, p. 2.

5 Ibid., p. 23. See also Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Special Meeting on Urgent Food Problems, Washington, June 6, 1946, report of Committee III.

6 For the agreement, see Documents section; this volume, p. 239.

7 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Director-General on the International Institute of Agriculture (Con 2/Org 4), Washington, p. 2.

8 Report, p. 2.

9 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Survey (Con 2/Gen 5), Washington, July 5, 1946.

10 Report, p. 3.

11 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Information Service Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 6, October 4, 1946, p. 5.

12 Ibid., p. 6.

13 Ibid., p. 2.

14 Ibid., pp. 8–9.

15 Report, pp. 3–4.

16 United Nations Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 6, September 9, 1946, p. 17.

17 Report, p. 4.

18 Ibid., p. 7.