{"id":1412,"date":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=135221"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","slug":"fao-podcast-a-hungry-world-rolls-up-its-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/08\/fao-podcast-a-hungry-world-rolls-up-its-sleeves\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO\u00a0Podcast:\u00a0A Hungry World Rolls Up Its Sleeves\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0death rate through\u00a0hunger and starvation in World War\u00a0Two,\u00a0rivals the number of those killed in combat. By 1945, agriculture had\u00a0effectively ground to a halt,\u00a0leaving\u00a0hundreds of millions\u00a0to survive on the equivalent\u00a0of two potatoes a day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was against this desperate backdrop that the Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/feed\/view\/en\/\" title=\"United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization\" class=\"word-link\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAO<\/a>)\u00a0was\u00a0born.\u00a0 Marking\u00a0the UN agency\u2019s 75th\u00a0anniversary, FAO\u2019s Andre\u00a0Vornic\u00a0has\u00a0produced a short podcast series on\u00a0the founding of the key UN agency.\u00a0In this first episode, \u2018a hungry world rolls up its sleeves\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/08\/fao-podcast-a-hungry-world-rolls-up-its-sleeves\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0death rate through\u00a0hunger and starvation in World War\u00a0Two,\u00a0rivals the number of those killed in combat. By 1945, agriculture had\u00a0effectively ground to a halt,\u00a0leaving\u00a0hundreds of millions\u00a0to survive on the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,4,509,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}