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The Hot Springs Conference, also referred to as the Food and Agriculture Conference and officially known as the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture, was held from 18 May to 3 June 1943, in Hot Springs, Virginia, in the United States. Its primary function was the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the first functional organization of what would later become the United Nations.

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The primary mover of progress towards and at the conference was Frank L. McDougall, economic advisor to the Australian High Commission and previously a long-time activist for agricultural and nutritional issues at the League of Nations. The conference opened on 18 May 1943. All countries that were then members of the United Nations (established through the Declaration by United Nations, 1 January 1942), plus an observer from Denmark, were in attendance. The Hot Springs Conference stands in a greater context of Allied and United Nations conferences about the establishment of postwar infrastructure; other such meetings were held at Geneva in 1947 to establish the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and at Havana in 1948 to establish the Havana Charter. The Hot Springs Conference's focus on postwar humanitarian relief preparations is also reflected in the preparations, starting in 1943, for the establishment of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). == References ==
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