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FAO: 1945, a Hungry World Rolls Up Its Sleeves 
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FAO: 1945, a Hungry World Rolls Up Its Sleeves 
FAO 75 Anniversary - Episode 1

The extent of death by hunger and starvation in World War II rivals that of death in combat. By 1945, agriculture has been wrecked; hundreds of millions eke out a living on the equivalent of two potatoes a day. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is born as an agency of the newly founded United Nations. Spurred on by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s call to secure freedom from want, its mission is to help build a “world of plenty’’.

#FA0 #FAO75  #Hunger #Poverty #World Food Day


Producer and reporter: Andre Vornic
Post-production: Eric Deleu

Acknowledgements: Karel Callens, Anna Lartey and Truman F. Peebles (FAO); Lizzie Collingham, historian and writer, Cambridge, UK; Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Jane Howard, World Food Programme (WFP); Andrew Watson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Read the publication online: www.fao.org/3/cb1182en/online/cb1182en.html 
Asset date 12/02/2020 
Language English
Duration 14m32s 
File size 33.29 MB 
UNFAO Source FAO Audio
Unique identifier UF16G9O 
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