International Trade International Agricultural Assistance MULTILATERAL INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Participation in International Organizations Hosting FAO Meetings Freedom From Hunger Campaign Voluntary Agencies 104 105 105 107 112 112 113 116 119 INFORMATION ACTIVITIES 121 PART II MANAGEMENT OF FISHERY RESOURCES PART III FOOD FOR FREEDOM PROGRAM Page 127 130 139 FOREWORD This report was prepared in accord with Article XI of the FAO Constitution, which provides that each member nation shall periodically report on progress made toward achieving the purpose of FAO. All agencies of the U.S. Government directly concerned with subjects covered in the report have contributed to it. The report was planned and prepared under the supervision of the U.S. FAO Interagency Committee. That Committee is composed of representatives of the Departments of Agriculture; Commerce; Defense; Health, Education, and Welfare; Interior; Labor; State; and Treasury; and the Agency for International Development and the Bureau of the Budget. An observer from the Peace Corps, and advisers from 10 nongovernmental organizations also participate. Officers of the U.S. FAO Interagency Committee are: Chairman-Mrs. Dorothy H. Jacobson The report presented herein represents the work of many persons. Those who were members of a working group established to plan the report or who were directly concerned with the preparation, assembling, and editing of the material included: INTRODUCTION The FAO Council at its Forty-seventh Session in October 1966, decided that the next reports in the series should cover the years 1964, 1965, and 1966, and that they could consist of three parts, namely: (I) A general section reviewing the main food and agricultural developments in the countries, which should be common to all such reports; (II) Specific sections, like those of the special chapters of SOFA, providing analytical information on one or more important subjects suggested by FAO which might be included in the next issues of SOFA or could form the subject of discussions by the next session of the Conference; (III) Finally, there should be another part containing information to be provided at the discretion of the Governments on particular problems faced by them. These might include, for example, the plan, policies and programs, priorities in planning, any change in the food/population relation, and the measures taken concerning this trend and the results or failures of these efforts, etc. The present report has been prepared in accord with the Council's decision. Part I follows the general guidelines laid down by the Council at its Twentyeighth Session in November 1957. At that time Member Nations were requested, when preparing their reports in accord with Article XI of the FAO Constitution, to deal with: (a) The most significant progress and developments during the period under review in the fields of FAO's activities in regard to the three basic objectives of FAO, as set out in the preamble of the Constitution: (i) raising levels of nutrition and living standards; (ii) securing improvements in the efficiency of production and distribution of food and agricultural products, and (iii) bettering the condition of rural populations, and (b) What they regard as the main problems still outstanding in such fields. These are the guidelines that were followed in the preparation of reports for the periods of 1955-57, 1958-60 and 1961-63. Part II includes chapters related to the two special topics which the Director General proposed and the Council (in its Forty-seventh Session) endorsed as special topics to be included in the State of Food and Agriculture 1967. Part III covers a special area to which the United States has been giving major attention, i.e., the Food for Freedom Program. A report such as this is, of necessity, broad rather than detailed. It cannot do more than present a general picture of progress made and indicate some of the more important actions aimed at bringing about these improvements. Such progress in the United States results from activities of the Federal, State, Commonwealth, and Territorial Governments; from the activities of many State and private institutions that conduct research, educational and/or exten vii sion work, and action programs; and from the activities of organizations of farmers and farm youth as well as from the efforts of the individual members of farming and other communities. Many important activities could not be included in this report. Also, it has not been feasible to include descriptions of the work of many nongovernmental organizations and groups which make important contributions every year to the improvement of agriculture and the well-being of rural peoples generally, and through these activities to the well-being of the United States. Neither could there be included even a brief summation of efforts of the individual farmers of the country and their families, and of those who process and distribute agricultural products; the people who, in the final analysis, bring the findings of agricultural science to bear upon the problems of agricultural production, processing, and distribution. |