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The State of Food and Agriculture
The State of Food and Agriculture, FAOs major annual flagship publication, aims at bringing to wider audience balanced science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture. Each edition of the report contains comprehensive, yet easily accessible, overview of selected topics of major relevance for rural and agriculture development and for global food security.
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2019
Moving Forward on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
This year's edition provides new estimates of the percentage of the world's food lost from production up to the retail level. It suggests that identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains – where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses – is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures. It also provides some guiding principles for interventions based on the objectives being pursued through food loss and waste reductions be they in improved economic efficiency food security and nutrition or environmental sustainability.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2018
Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development
Migration is an expanding global reality one that allows millions of people to seek new opportunities. But it also involves challenges for migrants and for societies both in areas of origin and of destination. This report analyses migratory flows – internal and international – and how they are linked to processes of economic development demographic change and natural-resource pressure. The focus is on rural migration the many forms it takes and the important role it plays in both developing and developed countries. The report investigates the drivers and impacts of rural migration and highlights how related policy priorities depend on country contexts that are in continuous evolution. These priorities will be different for countries in protracted crises countries where rural youth employment is a challenge countries in economic and demographic transition and developed countries in need of migrant workers not least to support agriculture and rural economies.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2017
Leveraging Food Systems for Inclusive Rural Transformation
One of the greatest challenges today is to end hunger and poverty while making agriculture and food systems sustainable. The challenge is daunting because of continued population growth profound changes in food demand and the threat of mass migration of rural youth in search of a better life. This report presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to become the engine of inclusive economic development and rural prosperity in low-income countries. It analyses the structural and rural transformations now under way and examines the opportunities and challenges they present to millions of small-scale food producers. It shows how an “agroterritorial” planning approach focused on connecting cities and towns and their surrounding rural areas combined with agro-industrial and infrastructure development can generate income opportunities throughout the food sector and underpin sustainable and inclusive rural transformation.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2016
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 represents a new beginning in the global effort to stabilize the climate before it is too late. It recognizes the importance of food security in the international response to climate change as reflected by many countries focusing prominently on the agriculture sector in their planned contributions to adaptation and mitigation. To help put those plans into action this report identifies strategies financing opportunities and data and information needs. It also describes transformative policies and institutions that can overcome barriers to implementation.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2015
Social Protection and Agriculture - Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries increasingly recognize that social protection measures are needed to relieve the immediate deprivation of people living in poverty and to prevent others from falling into poverty when a crisis strikes. This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 makes the case that social protection measures will help break the cycle of rural poverty and vulnerability when combined with broader agricultural and rural development measures.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014
Innovation in Family Farming
More than 500 million family farms manage the majority of the world’s agricultural land and produce most of the world’s food. We need family farms to ensure global food security to care for and protect the natural environment and to end poverty undernourishment and malnutrition. But these goals can be thoroughly achieved if public policies support family farms to become more productive and sustainable. This edition of the The State of Food and Agriculture analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods. Innovation is a process through which farmers improve their production and farm management practices.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2013
Food Systems for Better Nutrition
Malnutrition in all its forms -- undernutrition micronutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity -- imposes unacceptably high economic and social costs on countries at all income levels. This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture argues that improving nutrition and reducing these costs must begin with food and agriculture. The traditional role of agriculture in producing food and generating income is fundamental but agriculture and the entire food system -- from inputs and production through processing storage transport and retailing to consumption -- can contribute much more to the eradication of malnutrition.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2012
Investing in Agriculture for a Better Future
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture shows that farmers are the largest investors in developing country agriculture and argues therefore that farmers and their investment decisions must be central to any strategy aimed at improving agricultural investment. The report also presents evidence showing how public resources can be used more effectively to catalyse private investment especially by farmers themselves and to channel public and private resources towards more socially beneficial outcomes. The focus of this report is on the accumulation of capital by farmers in agriculture and the investments made by governments to facilitate this accumulation.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011
Women in Agriculture - Closing the Gender Gap for Development
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture makes the “business case” for addressing gender issues in agriculture and rural employment. The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries in part because women do not have equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. The gender gap imposes real costs on society in terms of lost agricultural output food security and economic growth. Promoting gender equality is not only good for women; it is also good for agricultural development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2009
Livestock in the Balance
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture is published at a crucial point in time. The world is going through a financial turbulence that has led to a serious economic setback. But this must not mask the global food crisis that has shaken the international agricultural economy and proven the fragility of the global agricultural system. This report discusses the most critical challenges and opportunities facing the sector. It highlights systemic risks and failures resulting from a process of growth and transformation that has outpaced the capacity and willingness of governments and societies to control and regulate. It tries to identify issues that require solutions at various levels to allow livestock sector to meet society’s expectations in the future in terms of provision of both private and public goods. The issue of governance is central. Identifying and defining the appropriate role of government in its broadest sense is the cornerstone on which future development of the livestock sector must build.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2008
Biofuels - Prospects, Risks and Opportunities
The publication surveys the current status of the biofuel debate exploring implications for food security the environment and agricultural development in developing countries. It addresses the biophysical and economic potential of 1st and 2nd generation biofuels and its implications on agricultural development poverty and hunger. The publication also explores policy options and contains an overview of the current global agricultural situation including data on agricultural production food consumption and agricultural trade.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007
Paying Farmers for Environmental Services
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 explores the potential for agriculture to provide enhanced levels of environmental services alongside the production of food and fibre. The report concludes that demand for environmental services from agriculture – including climate change mitigation improved watershed management and biodiversity preservation – will increase in the future but better incentives to farmers are needed if agriculture is to meet this demand.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2006
Food Aid for Food Security?
The State of Food and Agriculture 2006 examines the issues and controversies surrounding international food aid and seeks to find ways to preserve its essential humanitarian role while minimizing the possibility of harmful secondary impacts. Food aid has rightly been credited with saving millions of lives; indeed it is often the only thing standing between vulnerable people and death. Yet food aid is sharply criticized as a donor-driven response that creates dependency on the part of recipients and undermines local agricultural producers and traders upon whom sustainable food security depends. Reforms to the international food aid system are necessary but they should be undertaken carefully because lives are at risk.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2005
Agriculture Trade and Poverty - Can Trade Work for the Poor?
The report examines the many ways in which trade liberalization and agricultural trade affect the poor and food-insecure. Trade can be a catalyst for change promoting conditions that enable the poor to raise their incomes and live longer healthier and more productive lives but these positive results are not guaranteed. The poor are particularly vulnerable in any reform process especially in the short run as productive sectors and labour markets adjust. Complementary policy measures are needed to enable the poor to take advantage of the opportunities offered by trade and safety nets are required to protect the most vulnerable from trade-related shocks.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004
Agricultural Biotechnology - Meeting the Needs of the Poor?
The potential of agricultural biotechnology especially transgenic crops to meet the needs of the poor is explored in this report. An analysis of the socio-economic impacts of technological change in agriculture is discussed and the safety of transgenic crops for human health and the environment is examined.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2002
Agriculture and Global Public Goods Ten Years after the Earth Summit
In addition to the usual review of the recent food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on agriculture and global public goods ten years after the earth summit.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2001
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition features a review of the existing evidence on the link between nutrition and productivity and economic growth.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2000
Lessons from the Past 50 Years
The close of a millennium is an opportune time for studying the past with a view to seeking lessons for the future. So in addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation this year’s edition of The State of Food and Agriculture includes a special chapter that reflects on humankind’s achievements and failures in fighting poverty and hunger over the past half-century - a theme that stimulates both historic and prospective thought
The State of Food and Agriculture 1999
This year’s edition of The State of Food and Agriculture was not published in its traditional format. Instead a document (The State of Food and Agriculture C99/2) and a set of graphs and figures summarizing the main features of the current world food and agriculture situation were presented at the 30th session of the FAO Conference in November 1999.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1998
Rural Non-Farm Income in Developing Countries
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on rural non-farm income in developing countries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1997
The Agroprocessing Industry and Economic Development
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on the agroprocessing industry and economic development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1996
Food Security: Some Macroeconomic Dimensions
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on food security.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1995
Agricultural Trade - Entering a New Era?
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on agricultural trade.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1994
Forest Development and Policy Dilemmas
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on forest development and policy dilemmas.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1993
Water Policies and Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on water policies and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1992
Marine Fisheries and the Law of the Sea - A Decade of Change
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agricultural situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture since 1957 has included one or more special studies on problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on marine fisheries and the law of the sea.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1991
Agricultural Policies and Issues - Lessons from the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on agricultural policies and issues.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1990
World and Regional Reviews: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on structural adjustment and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1989
World and regional reviews: Sustainable Development and Natural Resources Management
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on sustainable development and natural resources management.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1987-1988
Changing Priorities for Agricultural Science and Technology in Developing Countries
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on changing priorities for agricultural science and technology in developing countries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1986
Financing Agricultural Development
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on financing agricultural development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1985
Mid-Decade Review of Food and Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition is the mid-decade review of food and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1984
Urbanization, Agriculture and Food Systems
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on urbanization agriculture and food systems.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1983
Women in Developing Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on women in developing agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1982
Livestock Production - A World Perspective
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on livestock production.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1981
The Least Developed Countries and World Review - Alleviating Rural Poverty
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on alleviating rural poverty.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1980
World Food Security - World Fisheries and the Law of the Sea
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on world food security particularly world fisheries and the law of the sea.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1979
Forestry and Rural Development
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on forestry and rural development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1978
Problems and Strategies in Developing Regions
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on problems and strategies in developing regions.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1977
The State of Natural Resources and the Human Environment for Food and Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on the state of natural resources and the human environment for food and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1976
Energy and Agriculture
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on energy and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1975
The Second United Nations Development Decade - Mid-Term Review and Appraisal
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on the second United Nations development decade.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1974
Review by Regions - Population, Food Supply and Agricultural Development
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on the review of population food supply and agricultural development by regions.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1973
Review by Regions - Agricultural Employment in Developing Countries
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on the review of agricultural employment in developing countries by region.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1972
Education and Training - Accelerating Agricultural Research in the Developing Countries
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year’s edition focuses on accelerating agricultural research in developing countries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1971
Water Pollution and its Effects on Living Aquatic Resources and Fisheries
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on water pollution and its effects on living aquatic resources and fisheries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1970
Agriculture at the Threshold of the Second Development Decade
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-tern interest. This year's edition focuses on agriculture at the threshold of the second depression
The State of Food and Agriculture 1969
Agricultural Marketing Improvement Programmes; Modernization of Institutions to Promote Development
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on both agricultural marketing improvement programmes and modernization of institutions to promote development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1968
Raising Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries through Technological Improvement; Improved Storage and its Contribution to World Food Supplies
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on raising agricultural productivity in developing countries as well as improved storage and its contribution to world food supplies.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1967
Incentives and Disincentives for Farmers in Developing Countries; The Management of Fishery Resources
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on both incentives and disincentives for farmers in developing countries as well as the management of fishery resources.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1966
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on agriculture and industrialization as well as rice in the world food economy.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1965
Review of the Second Postwar Decade
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on the second postwar decade.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1964
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on protein nutrition as well as synthetics and their effects on international trade.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1963
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on the basic factors affecting the growth of productivity in agriculture as well as the use of fertilizer.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1962
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on both the role of forest industries in the attack on economic underdevelopment as well as the livestock industry in less developed countries.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1961
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on land reform and institutional change as well as agricultural extension education and research in Africa Asia and Latin America.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1960
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on programming for agricultural development.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1959
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of The State of Food and Agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer-term interest. This year's edition focuses on agricultural incomes and levels of living in countries at different stages of economic development as well as general problems of agricultural development in less developed countries in the light of postwar experience.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1958
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation this year's edition of The State of Food and Agriculture also studies food and agricultural developments in Africa south of the Sahara as well as the growth of forest industries and their impact on the world's forests.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1957
In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation this edition of The State of Food and Agriculture also studies the factors influencing the trend of food consumption as well as postwar changes in some institutional factors affecting agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1956
This edition continues the annual publication by FAO of world agricultural statistics with a complete listing of data for 1954 the latest revisions of data for prewar and 1953 and for the first time data for the postwar average 1948-52. Coverage and quality of the statistics presented have been notably improved in this latest issue of the Yearbook. In addition there are these new features that contribute to its usefulness: (1) A new section on Wages and freight rates with a freight rate table presenting both historical series of maritime rates for selected commodities and leading freight rates and country index numbers of freight rates; (2) A new table for Miscellaneous feedstuffs included in the section on Prices along with a re-examination and necessary corrections of all price series; (3) Replanning of Food Supply tables so as to show long-term trends in food consumption by the inclusion of averages for a prewar period an early postwar period and a recent postwar period as well as individual figures for the latest years available; (4) New tables on Tomatoes and pineapples in the Crops section; and (5) Addition of new series to many of the tables in the section on Prices with notes to price tables rewritten for inclusion of useful information on the sources of the statistical series and the methods by which annual averages have been calculated.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1955
Review of a Decade and Outlook
The year 1955 marks the tenth anniversary of the foundation of FAO. It marks also the end of the first decade of agricultural recovery and expansion after the second world war. Unlike its predecessors this issue does not deal mainly with the current situation and short-term outlook but instead reviews the progress and experiences of the whole decade. The treatment of this theme has been analytic rather than purely descriptive. An attempt has been made to bring out the underlying causes of the main postwar developments and to make some appraisal of the results achieved.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1954
Review and Outlook
The present report reviews the more recent developments in the world food and agricultural situation and also the immediate outlook. In 1953/54 world production continued to expand. Surpluses especially of wheat became more burdensome in some areas and in these areas farm prices and farm incomes tended to decline. In other parts of the world however supplies Were not excessive and efforts to expand production were continued and in some cases intensified. The outlook- for 1954/55 suggests no essential change in this situation which is summarized in Chapter I of the report and reviewed more fully on a world basis in Chapter II.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1953
This year's edition of The State of Food ad Agriculture is split into two parts. The first part provides a world and regional review and outlook as well as an in depth review by commodities. The second part provides an overview of longer term prospects with a focus on general world and regional trends.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1952
Review and Outlook
This report presents the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation with statistical material available to FAO staff not later than 30 July 1952.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1951
Review and Outlook
This report which not only reviews the past but also appraises the outlook for the immediate future is as complete as can be done in the difficult circumstances of 1951. Neither crop forecasts nor economic forecasts can ever be completely right but the appraisals here based upon all the information available present the best considered view of the prospects possible to make in mid-August 1951. This report is not as complete as previous ones however it covers the general facts of the agricultural situation and outlook sufficiently well to be of service to member nations and the general public.
World Outlook and State of Food and Agriculture 1950
In line with recommendations of the Fifth Session of the FAO Conference this report brings together information on the general economic outlook; the outlook for individual farm forestry and fisheries commodities; the changing patterns of world trade; the changes in international investment; and the general state of food and agriculture.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1949
A Survey of World Conditions and Prospects
In this second report on the State of Food and Agriculture an attempt is made to appraise the current situation against the background of longer-term trends and to focus attention on a very few broad issues which will require consideration and action by governments.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1948
A Survey of World Conditions and Prospects
The present Report in spite of limitations and imperfections due to inadequate data delineates the central issues clearly enough to enable governments to consult together and decide what practical steps should be taken next. This over-all guide aims to have action initiated or intensified in a wide variety of fields to expand production improve national and international distribution and raise living standards throughout the world.
The State of Food and Agriculture 1947
At this first review of the state of food and agriculture discussion centers on activities which might be undertaken by the council during the coming year specifically taking over international allocation of foods and fertilizers from the International Emergency Food Council ensuring maximum mobilization of food for human use in 1947/1948 accelerating the supply of materials needed to expand the 1948 harvest in food-deficit countries promoting long-term agricultural development and nutritional programmes for countries and regions and reviewing commodity situations in agriculture forestry and fisheries and promoting joint activity among Governments including studies leading where necessary to commodity agreements.