This memo from the United Nations (Paris, Series No. 19) concerns farming and food production, with particular focus on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Deputy Director-General of the FAO, Sir Herbert Broadley, gives a general overview of its functions. These functions are illustrated through seven stories about problems that the FAO has helped solved. These are set in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka (formally Ceylon), Ethiopia, East Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Europe.
Speakers: Harry L. Spence, the chief of the FAO's mission in Afghanistan; D.B. Finn, director of FAO's fisheries division; Edward Nicholson, a cotton expert; John Hewitt, the chief field officer of the locust control organization for East Africa; Theodore Colson, a packaging and marketing specialist; R.N. Henry, head of the Rural Welfare Branch at the FAO; and Mr. Huberman of the forestry division of the FAO.