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“To Keep Food Out of Politics”: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 1945–1965

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International Organizations and Development, 1945–1990

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“Food is now in the political arena and nothing will redress this very unfortunate development”, commented the former director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Binay Ranjan Sen, in the early 1970s.1 Sen had always proudly claimed to have kept “food out of politics” and would have been very pleased with a description of FAO as an archetype of a functional organization. Yet, there has always been a political struggle over what role FAO had to play in the field of international food production and distribution.2

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Jachertz, R. (2014). “To Keep Food Out of Politics”: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 1945–1965. In: Frey, M., Kunkel, S., Unger, C.R. (eds) International Organizations and Development, 1945–1990. The Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437549_4

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