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Food and Agriculture Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization held its fifteenth session in Rome from June 9 to 14, 1952 under the chairmanship of Josu6 de Castro (Brazil); Sir Ralph Enfield (United Kingdom) and Dr. G. B. H. Barton (Canada) were elected vice chairmen of the session. Focusing its attention on questions discussed at the Sixth Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the council reviewed progress reports on the reform of agrarian structures, the Expanded Technical Assistance Programme, commodity problems, locust control and plans for increasing food and agricultural production; studied the problem of food shortages and famine; and considered matters of procedure, administration and finance.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1952

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References

1 For summaries of the sixth session of the conference of FAO, see International Organization, VI, p. 108, 430.

2 Food and Agriculture Organization, Report of the Council of FAO, Fifteenth Session, June 914, 1952, Rome, 07Google Scholar 1952.

3 Ibid.; United Nations, Bulletin, XIII, p. 176.

4 United Nations, Bulletin, XIII, p. 176Google Scholar.

5 Ibid., p. 60.

6 Department of State, Bulletin, XXVII, p. 271Google Scholar.

7 United Nations, Bulletin, XIII, p. 276Google Scholar.

8 Department of State, Bulletin, XXVII, p. 74Google Scholar.

9 Ibid., p. 378.