The second World Food Survey
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One of FAO's first major accomplishments was the World Food Survey, published in 1946. A few months earlier, FAO had been established as the agency through which governments could work together in the task of enabling people of all countries to have enough of the right kinds of food and to enjoy adequate standards of living. There was a general awareness that a large proportion of the world's population was insufficiently and improperly nourished, but the facts and figures needed to measure the size of the problem had never been systematically assembled. No broad statistical picture or map existed which could serve as a guide in the campaign against hunger and malnutrition which the Member States of FAO had pledged themselves to undertake.
Much has happened since 1946 and a new assessment, which will indicate what has happened in the postwar period, is now needed. It is also necessary to gauge the progress which has been made towards the objectives set up in the earlier Survey, and the prospects for the future. The Second World Food Survey is presented as a report on progress made thus far, and as a guide to future action. It is incomplete and, in many respects, provisional. But if to some degree it assists national governments, regional and international organizations to formulate plans and programs for more intense and comprehensive action in the future, it will have achieved its purpose.