Because of the widespread fear in the postwar years of emerging global food shortages, the FAO, and the international community as a whole, focused mainly on food production – a focus that remained essentially the same in the following decades. Those investments yielded good returns: despite staggering global population growth, from 2.5 billion in 1945 to seven billion today, food availability per person has risen by more than 40%.
鉴于对战后几年出现的全球粮食短缺问题的普遍担忧，粮农组织和整个国际社会将重点主要放在粮食生产方面，而这一重点在接下来的几十年里基本上保持未变。所付出的努力取得了良好的回报：尽管世界人口增长速度惊人，从1945年的25亿增至今天的70亿，但是人均粮食供应量增加了40％以上。