{"id":17999,"date":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/12\/1079492"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:30:05","slug":"fao-podcast-a-hungry-world-rolls-up-its-sleeves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/08\/fao-podcast-a-hungry-world-rolls-up-its-sleeves-2\/","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\" >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<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/12\/1079492\">UN News<\/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 equivalent\u00a0of two potatoes a day.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIt was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999"}],"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\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18000,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}