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194570. Early Attempts: FAO's
Pioneering Work

And he gave it for his opinion, that
whoever could make two ears of corn
or two blades of grass to grow upon a
spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better of man-
kind, and do more essential service to
his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together.

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels.

Voyage to Brobdingnag, ch. 7

ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger

Preamble to FAO's Constitution

people ask for bread and we give them pamphlets

Sir John (later Lord) Boyd Orr,

FAO's first Director-General (194548)

hunger has a unique universal appeal. Nothing touches the
consciousness as much as hunger. It brings into man's
immediate consciousness the social injustices and inequalities,
the divisions between man and man that encrust social structures
everywhere

B. R. Sen, FAO Director-General (195767)

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