WORLD FOOD BOARD

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 4

WORLD FOOD BOARD

UNO ORGANISATION’S PROPOSAL NEW YORK, August 7. A suggested programme oi’ international action to ensure that sufficient food is produced and distributed to bring the consumption of all people up to health standards, is contained in a report by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. The proposals for a long-range world policy include the establishment of a World Food Board which would stabilise the prices on world markets, establish a world food reserve adequate for any emergency that might arise through the failure of crops in any part of the world, provide funds for financing surplus agricultural products on special terms to countries where the„ need is most urgent, and co-operate with organisations concerned with international credits and agricultural development. A report’ from Trieste says that in a period of more than six weeks the supplies pilfered represented less than one-half of one per cent., considerably less than the total taken from some Mediterranean ports.