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Historical Dictionary of the International Food Agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD (Hardcover)
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Historical Dictionary of the International Food Agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations
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Four world food organizations are based in Rome: FAO (Food and
Agriculture Organization); WFP (World Food Programme- British
spelling is used in Rome); WFC (World Food Council); and IFAD
(International Fund for Agricultural Development). For obvious
reasons, acronyms are widely used when discussing their functions
and activities. FAO came into being in 1945 even before the United
Nations was officially launched; its original and continuing
purposes are to aid agriculture worldwide so that "freedom from
hunger" might actually become a reality. WFP is an experimental,
now quasi-permanent institution of the early 1960's, using
agricultural surpluses of the industrial countries to assist the
development of agriculture in the newly created nations of Asia and
Africa. In November 1974, the UN held a World Food Conference in
Rome. It was the largest meeting of its type ever held, and out of
its deliberations were born the WFC and IFAD. The former was
designated the coordinating fuction of worldwide agricultural
activities; the latter was to assist agricultural development,
primarily in low-income Third World countries "the poorest of the
poor." For reasons elaborated in the book, the World Food Council
has been of marginal utility in the pursuit of its coordinating
function; IFAD has been quite successful even though greatly
underfunded. The production, distribution, and utilization of food
is largely a function of individual countries. These four world
organizations have as their principal purpose the improvement of
agriculture in Third World countries. Talbot describes what they do
to alleviate the continuing and often devastating problem of world
hunger and why they really are unable to do what they were created
for.
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