UN General Assembly
1952

If we take 100 as the pre-war index for the food products availably we find that North America in 1950 shows 125; Europe, 89; the Far East, 87; and Latin America, 70. This means that the countries of Latin America have in fifteen years experienced in the aggregate a decrease of one-third in their already inadequate diet. This is something to which our attention is called each year by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Secretary-General — the very grave problem of a population that is increasing while at the same time the production of food is decreasing.