Reply to the 4th Biennal Report of the Food and Agriculture Organisation
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly Debate on 25th January 1967 (21st Sitting) (see Doc. 2171, report of the Committee on Agriculture). Text adopted by the Assembly on 25th January 1967 (21st Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Having taken note of the 4th report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to the Council of Europe ;
2. Trusting that the co-operation established between FAO and the Council of Europe will be continued and intensified in all fields of common interest ;
3. Noting that food production is not developing in step with the rapid growth of population in the world and that the world's food reserves are becoming exhausted, recognises that there is an urgent need for the developed countries to reconsider their policies of aid with a view to increasing the agricultural production of the developing countries ;
4. Recognises that the FAO Indicative World Plan takes account of this need by helping both developed and developing countries to pursue more rational policies aimed at satisfying the food requirements of the world's growing population, and welcomes the close co-operation established between FAO and OECD in this matter ;
5. Taking account of the need for striking a balance between agricultural and correlated industrial and commercial development, considers the establishment of the FAO-Industry Co-operation Programme and the Food Production Resources Programme to be useful, provided that these Programmes are co-ordinated with other aid programmes, calling attention at the same time to the need for closer co-ordination between bilateral donors and multilateral organisations in correlation with the efforts of the recipient countries themselves ;
6. Resolves to use its influence with national Parliaments and Governments for the purpose of further expanding the availability of facilities both for the younger generation of Europeans wishing to place their knowledge at the disposal of the developing countries and for students and trainees from these countries coming to Europe, on the understanding that the various courses and research programmes arranged should be patterned to suit the problems of tropical zone agriculture ;
7. Welcomes the work undertaken by FAO in Europe and the interest displayed by that Organisation in Europe's less developed areas ;
8. Resolves to take action at national level to establish, wherever necessary, better co-ordination both within and between member countries of plans and action in important fields of agriculture, such as the improvement of agrarian structures.
