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Food and Agriculture Organization

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The eighth session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was held in Rome from November 4 through 25, 1955 under the chairmanship of the Right Honorable K. J. Holyoake (New Zealand). The Conference had accepted the proposals submitted by the FAO Council on the organization of the eighth session, and consequently established various commissions to deal with agenda items pertaining to program trends and policy questions in food and agriculture, constitutional and legal questions, and administrative and financial questions. During its discussion of the world food and agricultural situation, the Conference noted that world per capita agricultural production, which had decreased by ten to fifteen percent at the end of World War II, had regained its pre-war level in spite of an increase of nearly 25 percent in population. However, agricultural production had increased more rapidly in advanced countries than in economically under-developed ones, so that per capita production in Asia and Latin America was still below pre-war levels, while surpluses had built up in the more advanced countries. The Conference felt that this situation was due to a failure to expand effective demand for farm products as rapidly as technical developments made it possible to expand production. Although the Conference noted that surplus agricultural commodities had increased more slowly in 1954–1955 than in the two preceding years, it felt that this had been due at least as much to poor crops in some countries as to increased consumption or to a planned reduction of output.

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  • Anonymous, 1956. "Food and Agriculture Organization," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(3), pages 472-476, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:10:y:1956:i:3:p:472-476_11
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    1. Stevens, Robert D., 1965. "Elasticity of Food Consumption Associated with Changes in Income in Developing Countries," Foreign Agricultural Economic Report (FAER) 144079, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. repec:mth:jas888:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:100-122 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Wei-Bin Zhang, 2014. "Population Change with Endogenous Birth and Mortality Rates, Wealth Accumulation, and Renewable Resource Change," International Journal of Economic Sciences, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2014(3), pages 103-129.

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