World Food Survey
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Early in 1946, several of these agencies loaned the services of some of their staff members to the Food and Agriculture Organization for the purpose of making a world food survey in which the best available figures and estimates would be brought together, critically examined, and reduced to a uniform basis. The objective was to obtain as clear a picture as possible of the world food situation as it was in the years just before the war. F AO needed these figures as a guide in working out proposals for future world food and agricultural policies.
This report gives the results of the survey. It covers 70 countries whose people makeup about 90 percent of the earth's population. It need scarcely be said that the figures for many countries are highly imperfect. Statistical services in most countries will have to be vastly improved before complete and accurate data are obtainable; it is one of FA O's functions to help bring about this improvement, which will take many years.