6. The Council noted that during the period under review there
had been little change in the world food situation. While there
were some encouraging factors in the last two years, the
situation was still fragile and many unsatisfactory features
remained in respect both of longer-term trends and of the actual
results obtained in different developing countries. Little
progress had been made towards either the goals agreed at the
World Food Conference or the target of agricultural growth set
forth in the development strategy of the Second Development
Decade. There was therefore no cause for complacency or undue
optimism. 7. World food production had shown a good production
performance in both 1975 and 1976, including the developing
countries where, in these two years, the increase in food
produc- tion had averaged about 4 percent per year, although
this average covered considerable differences between countries
and regions. 8. The improvement in world food supplies begun in
1975 had continued. However, the Counc