Food and Agriculture Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-560
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Director General ◽  
Agricultural Expansion ◽  
World Production ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Essential Change ◽  
The World

In the foreword to the annual report on the state of food and agriculture, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (Cardon) noted that 1953 had marked a turning point in the postwar food and agriculture situation. The growth of world production had caught up with the world growth of population, and during 1953/54 production had oontinued to expand. No essential change in this line of development was predicted for the crop year 1954/55. Two major problems, Dr. Cardon stated, confronted FAO: 1) how to reduce existing agricultural surpluses without imbalancing world trade in agricultural commodities, and 2) how to ensure continued agricultural expansion in selected products and countries so as to raise the level of world nutrition as a whole.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-630
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Far East ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Director General ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World

The Acting Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Herbert Broadley, stated in his forward to the annual report for 1956 that the world food and agricultural situation had in recent years tended to change less rapidly than it had during the years of postwar recovery. It had therefore been decided to modify the form of the annual report, giving less emphasis to the current situation and short-term outlook and more to longer-term problems and to other special subjects. In reviewing the world situation and outlook, the report stated that during 1955/56 world production had continued to increase, reaching a level some 3 percent higher than in 1954/55. Increases had been greatest in North America and Oceania, the regions already most troubled by surpluses, but apart from a substantial gain in the Far East, production in the other regions had shown little change and in some cases had declined. Demand for agricultural products had been stimulated throughout the world during the period under review by the boom in industrialized countries; broadly speaking, there had been a tendency towards decreased prices for agricultural raw materials and some strengthening in the prices of foodstuffs. An increase of about 5 percent in the volume of world trade and agricultural commodities had occurred during 1955, with more than half of the increase due to larger western European imports. World trade in agricultural products was still, however, only 5 percent above the 1934–1938 level, in contrast to a rise of 70 percent in the volume of world trade as a whole. The total addition to stocks by the end of 1955/56 appeared to have been fairly modest, the report stated.

scholarly journals Analysis of the state and global trends in the cultivation and breeding of apple trees

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
E. V. Atazhanova ◽  
L. A. Lukicheva
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Federal State ◽  
World Production ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Apple Production

The objective of the research is to analyze scientific and technical literature, to identify trends in world production and trends in apple breeding. The article uses official data from the FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Statistics Division). In addition, the information from the websites of the Federal State Statistics Service and the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Gossortcommission" - the State Commission for Selection Achievements, Test and Protection - were used. Statistical reports for the period from 2000 to 2019 were taken for analysis. The volume of fruits produced in the world is increasing every year. Apple production is in third place in the world, second only to coffee and olives. The leading apple suppliers are China, USA, Turkey, Poland, Iran, Italy, India, France, Russia, Chile. In 2000-2019 the gross harvest of apples increased from 59 million tons. up to 87 million tons, while the number of cultivated areas decreased from 5.4 to 4.7 million hectares. The main producing regions of this crop are Asia (60.7%), Europe (22.1%), America (12.9%), Africa (3.2%) and Oceania (1.1%). At the same time, the world production of apple trees has significantly stepped towards intensification, thanks to new cultivars and new cultivation technologies. Over the past twenty years, global apple production has grown significantly due to the intensification of production and the introduction of new breeding cultivars.

Dynamics of gross harvest of nuts in the world and in the main producing countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Rafail R. Mukhametzyanov ◽  
◽  
Nikolay G. Platonovskiy ◽  
Natalia V. Arzamastseva ◽  
Natalia N. Ivantsova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Article ◽  
World Production ◽  
Total Group ◽  
Tree Nuts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Understanding

In most food classifications, nuts are usually included in the fruit and berry group. In this scientific article, we examined the issue of the production of tree nuts in the world as a whole, and in the countries that are the main producers of this type of plant products. This term was borrowed from the terminology of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, originally referred to as “Treenuts”. This group does not include all fruits that we, in our traditional understanding, classify as nuts. In particular, it does not include peanuts (groundnut) and coconuts. In the course of the study, we identified that during 1961-2019 the volume of world production of tree nuts increased by 6.68 times, while the “Fruit, Total” group increased by 4.34 times, and that of peanuts and coconut by 3.45 times and 2.63 times, respectively. However, the gross harvest of tree nuts is significantly inferior to most of the types of fresh fruit and berry products obtained. In the structure of their global production in 2019, walnuts were in the first position (25.75%), in the second - cashew nuts (22.67%), in the third - almonds (20.02%). In the context of the main countries-producers of tree nuts, the five leaders include such states as China (27.03%), USA (17.40%), Turkey (7.51%), Iran (4.90%), Cat- d’Ivoire (4.60%). In general, the importance of tree nuts in both production and consumption is increasing. For producing countries, their cultivation and supply to international trade is one of the sources of employment for part of the population and obtaining foreign exchange earnings, and in the countries importing them, the population gets the opportunity to diversify their diet with useful food products throughout the entire calendar year.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-540
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Director General ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

The State of Food and Agriculture, 1955In his annual report on the state of food and agriculture for 1955, the Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (Cardon) noted that 1955 marked the tenth year of the organization; unlike previous annual reports, which had dealt mainly with the current situation and short-term outlook, the 1955 report was to be devoted to a review of the progress and experience of the whole preceding decade.

Biofuels

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pimentel ◽  
Michael Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Director General ◽  
World Population ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Food Grain ◽  
Increasing Demand

A rapidly growing world population and an even more rapidly growing consumption of fossil fuels are increasing demand for both food and biofuels, which will exaggerate both the food and fuel shortages around the world. Producing biofuels requires huge amounts of both fossil energy and food resources, which will intensify conflicts over these resources. Using food crops to produce ethanol raises major nutritional and ethical concerns. More than 66% of the world human population is currently malnourished, so the need for grains and other basic foods is critical. Growing crops for fuel squanders land, water, and energy resources vital for the production of food for people. Using food and feed crops for ethanol production has brought increases in the prices of US beef, chicken, pork, eggs, breads, cereals, and milk of 10% to 20%. In addition, Jacques Diouf, Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that using food grains to produce biofuels is already causing food shortages for the poor of the world. Growing crops for biofuel ignores the need to reduce natural resource consumption and exacerbates the problem of malnourishment worldwide by turning food grain into biofuel.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-706
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Far East ◽  
Fats And Oils ◽  
Director General ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

The sixth session of the Council met in Paris from June 13 to 24, 1949. The Council heard a report by the Director-General (Dodd) on his visits to Europe and the Far East, and examined the world food situation and the problems which appeared to lie ahead. Available information indicated that although more than two-thirds of the world's population was still chronically undernourished, there had been several important changes in the world food situation in the past few months, particularly the emergence of surpluses in certain countries. Food consumption in 1948–49 in western and central Europe was ten per cent higher than in 1947–48, in terms of calories; this was due to the excellent 1948 harvest and the continuation of imports at a high level. In the Far East and parts of Africa and Latin America output remained at a low level, apart from improvement in a few crops and areas — such as rice in Thailand and oilseeds in West Africa. In the underdeveloped regions lack of capital and equipment, inadequate technical assistance and continued internal disturbances constituted major obstacles to expansion of production. World grain exports in 1948 were the highest since 1930–31, although increased consumption in exporting countries kept world exports of fats and oils still 33 per cent below prewar levels. Less than ten per cent of the world's food production was exchanged between countries, representing only three-quarters of the volume exchanged before the war. Standards of nutrition in the ill-fed areas of the world could be raised only by increasing production in those areas or by transferring to them supplies from countries producing more than they themselves needed and which were capable of still further increased output.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-649 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Director General ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Adequate Diet ◽  
The Third ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Total Food ◽  
The World ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Postwar Decade

Marking the twentieth anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the annual report on the state of food and agriculture reviewed the progress achieved during the second postwar decade, 1954/1955–1964/1965. In his foreword Director-General B. R. Sen noted three distinct phases of FAO's history. In the first, covering the postwar decade, FAO played a role in the task of reconstruction. The second phase, coinciding with the second postwar decade, had been marked by a number of significant developments in science and communications, in demography, and in national aspirations which influenced the outlook and work of FAO. Calling attention to the unprecedented rate of population growth and lagging food supply, FAO had warned that this trend implied a grave peril for the future peace and security of the world. The Freedom from Hunger Campaign launched by FAO in 1960 had represented a response to this new awareness of the dimensions of hunger and malnutrition in the world and of the responsibility of the world community to face the problem. The third phase of FAO's work, opening with the third postwar decade, would be a critical period. Mr. Sen referred to FAO studies, contained in the report, which indicated that the total food supplies of the developing countries would have to be increased fourfold in the next 35 years to give their rapidly expanding populations an adequate diet. The task of FAO, which would depend on the willingness of the leaders of the nations to devote a large share of the world's resources to meet the crisis, would be to assist in laying the foundation for this increase.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-260
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Annual Production ◽  
Director General ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Sixth Session

From November 18 to 20, 1953, the eighteenth session of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization was held in Rome under the chairmanship of Josue de Castro. At this session a final survey was made of arrangements for the seventh session of the FAO Conference, which was scheduled to open in Rome on November 23. Having decided at its seventeenth session to report to the Conference on the most recent developments in the world agricultural situation and outlook highlighting issues for the special attention of the Conference, the Council drafted a statement which supplemented the report of the Director-General (Dodd) entitled The State of Food and Agriculture, 1953. The Council reported that since the sixth session of the Conference in 1951 when continuing food shortages were the main concern, the situation had changed considerably; supplies of many commodities were now pressing hard against effective demand. While stocks of some agricultural commodities had accumulated and nations were finding their disposal difficult, supplies were still insufficient to provide adequate standards of nutrition in large parts of the world. The improvement in supplies in the last few years had not been matched by an in-crease in consumption levels, and one or two bad harvests could wipe out much of the increase in annual production which had been achieved and reduce substantially present levels of stocks, the Council stated. The following points were commended to the attention of the Conference: 1) problems involved in the selective expansion of production, especially in the less developed regions, 2) methods of maintaining the level of farm incomes, especially by increased efficiency, and 3) methods of increasing per caput consumption levels.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 674-675
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World

The 1957 annual report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that the main trends in the world food and agricultural situation in previous years had been continued during 1956/57. Agricultural production as a whole and food production had again increased by about three percent. In the less developed areas (the Far East, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America) food production since 1952 had risen slightly above that in the world as a whole; these areas had shown an increase of twenty percent in net food output in comparison with averages for 1948–52, while the developed regions (North America, western Europe, and Oceania) had shown an increase of fifteen percent. In 1957/58, the report predicted, world agricultural production would continue to increase at approximately the same rate as in the past.

Food and Agriculture Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-385
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Director General ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World

The seventh session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization was held in Rome from November 23 to December 11, 1253. The membership of FAO was increased to 71 at the seventh session by the admission of Libya, Iran, and Yemen. Dr. Philip V. Cardon (United States) was appointed Director-General of FAO for the following four years, to succeed Mr. Norris E. Dodd. The Conference appointed three commisions to deal, respectively, with agenda items pertaining to 1) the world situation and outlook in food and agriculture; 2) activites of the orgainzations; and 3) constitutional, legal, administrative, and financial questions.

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