0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments

Historical Dictionary of the International Food Agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD (Hardcover): Ross B. Talbot Historical Dictionary of the International Food Agencies: FAO, WFP, WFC, IFAD (Hardcover)
Ross B. Talbot
R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Sixty Years of Boom and Bust - The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018 (Paperback): Brent L Willis, Ross B. Talbot, Samuel... Sixty Years of Boom and Bust - The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018 (Paperback)
Brent L Willis, Ross B. Talbot, Samuel C Kelley
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Cwe Missions: Short-Term Missions with…
Cwe Volunteers Paperback R338 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200
Metacognition and Its Interactions with…
Luke Carson Paperback R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040
Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom
Lisa Marie Tucker Paperback R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380
The Poetical Works of John and Charles…
John Wesley Paperback R675 Discovery Miles 6 750
University Park, Los Angeles
Charles Epting Paperback R486 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520
Resilient - Restoring Your Weary Soul In…
John Eldredge Paperback R329 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020
Art Deco Tulsa
Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis Paperback R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080
Gleanings from the Writings of…
Baha'U'Llah Paperback R412 Discovery Miles 4 120
Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the…
George Catlin Paperback R604 Discovery Miles 6 040
Native North American Shamanism - An…
Shelley Osterreich Hardcover R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520

 

Partners