with the motto for FAO, Fiat Panis (`let there be bread'), which has remained to
this day. Driven by an intense desire to right wrongs and help make the world a
better place to live in, he thought in terms of a big plan, a bold idea, to solve the
world food security problem. When it did not work out that way, his interests and
energies turned increasingly to the cause of world government. In recognition of
his contributions to world peace through FAO and in other ways, he was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 (Boyd Orr, 1949) and was elevated to the British
peerage as Lord Boyd Orr in the same year.