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111. Recommendations on Longer-term Machinery The Committee, convinced that present emergency action in the field of food and agriculture should be carried on further by providing at an early date for longer-term machinery to deal with certain practical international problems connected therewith, requests the Director-General of FAO—(1) To submit to the next Conference of FAO a survey of existing and proposed, intergovernmental organizations designed to meet long-term problems concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of food and agricultural products, including the risk of accumulating surpluses. (2) To make proposals to the Conference on any extension of the functions of existing organizations or on any new organizations which the survey may indicate asu necessary. (3) In preparing such proposals to bear in mind—(a) The necessity of securing the widest possible co-operation between nations and between the intergovernmental agencies concerned with increasing the production and consumption of food and agricultural products. (b) The need for effective measures to prevent a recurrence of shortages or the accumulation of surpluses of food and agricultural products and for dealing with such shortages or surpluses should they develop. (c) The proposals made by the representatives of Governments and organizations during the course of the special meeting. (4) In carrying out the above request, to maintain close contact with the other' intergovernmental organizations concerned, and especially the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Committee recommends — That any conclusions of the Conference of FAO concerning the extension of the functions of existing organizations or the establishment of new organizations should be referred to the United Nations in order that guidance may be obtained on the proper relations which should be established and maintained between the various existing or proposed bodies in this field.

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