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World Food Council
World Food Council (WFC) was a United Nations organization established in December 1974 by the UN General Assembly. The World Food Council was created by recommendation of the World Food Conference. The headquarters for WFC was located in Rome, Italy.

In the early 1970's there was seen to be an incline in food shortages throughout many developing countries in Africa along with parts of Southeast Asia. This food shortage resulted from a lack of progress in the world fight against hunger and malnutrition, and also by very slow progress in the creation of a system of internationally coordinated cereal reserves to meet crop shortfalls and other abnormal situations.

As a result of this incline in food shortages, the General Assembly made the decision in 1973 to hold a conference to address global food problems. This conference was labeled as "The UN World Food Conference", and took place in Rome, Italy in 1974 (Rome, Italy also became the WFC's headquarters location).From a result of this conference it was called for the creation of a 36 member ministerial level World Food Council. This council would come together annually to review major problems and policy issues affecting the world food situation and to bring its political influence to bear on governments and UN bodies and agencies alike.

WFC's goal was to serve as coordinating body for national ministries of agriculture to help reduce malnutrition and hunger.

The World Food Council met each year in plenary session at the invite of a member's state until 1992. WFC was officially suspended in 1993 and was one of the only few UN organization's to ever be suspended. WFC's functions were absorbed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme.

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