UN General Assembly
1948

The Food and Agriculture Organization was proving not only that international bodies could collaborate with one another, but also that advances were being made in co-operation among Member States. The FAO was studying the continuing food crisis in close collaboration with the World Health Organization and, in its attempts to relieve that crisis, it was also collaborating with the regional economic commissions, with the Economic and Social Council and with the interested Governments. It was giving technical advice on agricultural methods, the distribution of food-stuffs and the promotion of activities for increasing the world’s food supply. The FAO was doing very useful work and proving that international action was a reality. Other organizations in existence before the United Nations, such as the International Labour Organization, the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunications Union, were carrying out international action in their respective fields which would have seemed impossible a few decades earlier.