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Food and Agriculture Organization
specialized agency of the United Nations, publisher
Industry Edit
Year dem found am16 October 1945 Edit
Office held by head of the organizationDirector-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization Edit
Chief executive officerQu Dongyu Edit
Motto textfiat panis Edit
CountryItaly Edit
Member ofDigital Public Goods Alliance Edit
Parent organizationUnited Nations Economic and Social Council Edit
Get subsidiarySomalia Water and Land Information, FAO Representation in Ghana, FAO Representation in China, FAO representation in Kenya Edit
Owner ofFood and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database Edit
Partnership withInternational Civil Aviation Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development Edit
Demma headquarters locationRome Edit
Dey replaceInternational Institute of Agriculture Edit
IPv4 routing prefix168.202.0.0/16 Edit
Dema official websitehttps://www.fao.org Edit
Website account onToutiao Edit
Interested infood security Edit
Official observer status in organisationWorld Intellectual Property Organization, International Organization for Migration Edit

De Food den Agriculture Organization of de United Nations (FAO) be specialized agency of de United Nations wey dey lead international efforts say dem go defeat hunger den improve nutrition den food security. Ein Latin motto, fiat panis, dey mean "let there be bread". Dem form am for 16 October 1945 insyd.[1]

De FAO dey comprise 195 members, wey dey include 194 countries den de European Union. Ein headquarters dey for Rome, Italy insyd, wey edey maintain regional den field offices worldwide, wey dey operate for ova 130 countries insyd.[2] Edey help governments den development agencies dey coordinate dema activities make dem improve den develop agriculture, forestry, fisheries, den land den water resources. E sanso dey conduct research, dey provide technical assistance to projects, dey operate educational den training programs, den dey collect agricultural output, production, den development data.[2]

Structure den finance[edit | edit source]

Directors-General[edit | edit source]

  • John Boyd Orr, October 1945 – April 1948
  • Norris E. Dodd, April 1948 – December 1953
  • Philip V. Cardon, January 1954 – April 1956
  • Herbert Broadley, (acting) April 1956 – November 1956
  • Binay Ranjan Sen, November 1956 – December 1967
  • Addeke Hendrik Boerma, January 1968 – December 1975
  • Edouard Saouma, January 1976 – December 1993
  • Jacques Diouf, January 1994 – December 2011
  • José Graziano da Silva, January 2012 – July 2019
  • Qu Dongyu, August 2019[3] – present

Deputy Directors-General[edit | edit source]

  • William Nobel Clark: 1948
  • Sir Herbert Broadley: 1948–1958
  • Friedrich Traugott Wahlen: 1958–1959
  • Norman C. Wright: 1959–1963
  • Oris V. Wells: 1963–1971
  • Roy I. Jackson: 1971–1978
  • Ralph W. Phillips: 1978–1981
  • Edward M. West: 1981–1985
  • Declan J. Walton: 1986–1987
  • Howard Hjort: 1992–1997
  • Vikram J. Shah (ad personam): 1992–1995
  • David A. Harcharik: 1998–2007
  • James G. Butler: 2008–2010
  • He Changchui (Operations): 2009–2011
  • Ann Tutwiler (Knowledge): 2011–2012
  • Manoj Juneja (Operations): 2011–2012
  • Dan Gustafson (Programmes): 2012–2020
  • Maria Helena Semedo: 2013–present
  • Laurent Thomas: 2017–2023
  • Beth Bechdol: 2020–present
  • Maurizio Martina: 2023-present

Offices[edit | edit source]

FAO Headquarters[edit | edit source]

De world headquarters dey locate insyd Rome, for de former seat of de Department of Italian East Africa insyd. Na one of de most notable features of de building be de Axum Obelisk wich stand in front of de agency seat, although just outside de territory de Italian Government allocate to de FAO. Benito Mussolini ein troops take am from Ethiopia for 1937 insyd as war booty wey dem return am for 18 April 2005.

Regional Offices[edit | edit source]

  • Regional Office give Africa, insyd Accra, Ghana
  • Regional Office give Asia den de Pacific, insyd Bangkok, Thailand
  • Regional Office give Europe den Central Asia, insyd Budapest, Hungary
  • Regional Office give Latin America den de Caribbean, insyd Santiago de Chile, Chile
  • Regional Office give de Near East, insyd Cairo, Egypt

Sub-regional Offices[edit | edit source]

  • Sub-regional Office give Central Africa (SFC), insyd Libreville, Gabon
  • Sub-regional Office give Central Asia, insyd Ankara, Turkey
  • Sub-regional Office give Eastern Africa (SFE), insyd Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Sub-regional Office give Mesoamerica (SLM), insyd Panama City, Panama
  • Sub-regional Office give North Africa, insyd Tunis, Tunisia
  • Sub-regional Office give Southern Africa den East Africa, insyd Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Sub-regional Office give de Caribbean, insyd Bridgetown, Barbados
  • Sub-regional Office give de Gulf Cooperation Council States den Yemen, insyd Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Sub-regional Office give de Pacific Islands, insyd Apia, Samoa

Liaison Offices[edit | edit source]

  • Liaison Office give North America, insyd Washington, D.C., United States
  • Liaison Office plus Japan, insyd Yokohama
  • Liaison Office plus de European Union den Belgium, insyd Brussels
  • Liaison Office plus de Russian Federation, insyd Moscow
  • Liaison Office plus de United Nations, insyd Geneva, Switzerland
  • Liaison Office plus de United Nations, insyd New York City, United States

Partnership den Liaison Offices[edit | edit source]

Partnership den Liaison Offices dey provide for stronger country participation insyd de FAO ein work den programmes at national, sub-regional, regional, den inter-regional levels, wey dem enhance cooperation thru unilateral trust fund projects den South–South cooperation.

Membership[edit | edit source]

As of 1 May 2020, de Organization get 194 Member Nations, one Member Organization, den two Associate Members.

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Albania
  3. Algeria
  4. Andorra
  5. Angola
  6. Antigua and Barbuda
  7. Argentina
  8. Armenia
  9. Australia
  10. Austria
  11. Azerbaijan
  12. Bahamas, The
  13. Bahrain
  14. Bangladesh
  15. Barbados
  16. Belarus
  17. Belgium
  18. Belize
  19. Benin
  20. Bhutan
  21. Bolivia
  22. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  23. Botswana
  24. Brazil
  25. Brunei
  26. Bulgaria
  27. Burkina Faso
  28. Burundi
  29. Cambodia
  30. Cameroon
  31. Canada
  32. Cape Verde
  33. Central African Republic
  34. Chad
  35. Chile
  36. China
  37. Colombia
  38. Comoros
  39. Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  40. Congo, Republic of the
  41. Cook Islands
  42. Costa Rica
  43. Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  44. Croatia
  45. Cuba
  46. Cyprus
  47. Czech Republic (Czechia)
  48. Denmark
  49. Djibouti
  50. Dominica
  51. Dominican Republic
  52. Ecuador
  53. Egypt
  54. El Salvador
  55. Equatorial Guinea
  56. Eritrea
  57. Estonia
  58. Eswatini (Swaziland)
  59. Ethiopia
  60. European Union
  61. Faroe Islands
  62. Fiji
  63. Finland
  64. France (French Republic)
  65. Gabon
  66. Gambia, The
  67. Georgia
  68. Germany
  69. Ghana
  70. Greece
  71. Grenada
  72. Guatemala
  73. Guinea
  74. Guinea-Bissau
  75. Guyana
  76. Haiti
  77. Honduras
  78. Hungary
  79. Iceland
  80. India
  81. Indonesia
  82. Iran
  83. Iraq
  84. Ireland
  85. Israel
  86. Italy
  87. Jamaica
  88. Japan
  89. Jordan
  90. Kazakhstan
  91. Kenya
  92. Kiribati
  93. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
  94. Korea, Republic of
  95. Kuwait
  96. Kyrgyzstan
  97. Laos
  98. Latvia
  99. Lebanon
  100. Lesotho
  101. Liberia
  102. Libya
  103. Lithuania
  104. Luxembourg
  105. Madagascar
  106. Malawi
  107. Malaysia
  108. Maldives
  109. Mali
  110. Malta
  111. Marshall Islands
  112. Mauritania
  113. Mauritius
  114. Mexico
  115. Micronesia, Federated States of
  116. Moldova
  117. Monaco
  118. Mongolia
  119. Montenegro
  120. Morocco
  121. Mozambique
  122. Myanmar (Burma)
  123. Namibia
  124. Nauru
  125. Nepal
  126. Netherlands
  127. New Zealand
  128. Nicaragua
  129. Niger
  130. Nigeria
  131. Niue
  132. North Macedonia
  133. Norway
  134. Oman
  135. Pakistan
  136. Palau
  137. Panama
  138. Papua New Guinea
  139. Paraguay
  140. Peru
  141. Philippines
  142. Poland
  143. Portugal
  144. Qatar
  145. Romania
  146. Russian Federation
  147. Rwanda
  148. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  149. Saint Lucia
  150. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  151. Samoa
  152. San Marino
  153. São Tomé and Príncipe
  154. Saudi Arabia
  155. Senegal
  156. Serbia
  157. Seychelles
  158. Sierra Leone
  159. Singapore
  160. Slovakia
  161. Slovenia
  162. Solomon Islands
  163. Somalia
  164. South Africa
  165. South Sudan
  166. Spain
  167. Sri Lanka
  168. Sudan
  169. Suriname
  170. Sweden
  171. Switzerland
  172. Syria
  173. Tajikistan
  174. Tanzania
  175. Thailand
  176. Timor-Leste (East Timor)
  177. Togo
  178. Tokelau
  179. Tonga
  180. Trinidad and Tobago
  181. Tunisia
  182. Turkey
  183. Turkmenistan
  184. Tuvalu
  185. Uganda
  186. Ukraine
  187. United Arab Emirates
  188. United Kingdom
  189. United States
  190. Uruguay
  191. Uzbekistan
  192. Vanuatu
  193. Venezuela
  194. Vietnam
  195. Yemen
  196. Zambia
  197. Zimbabwe

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Food and Agriculture Organization | United Nations organization". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About FAO". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Qu Dongyu of China elected FAO Director-General". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAO. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

Read further[edit | edit source]

  • Story of the FAO Library: 65th Anniversary, 1952–2017 (Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization, 2017).
  • "Confronting a Hungry World: The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in a Historical Perspective". Special Issue of International History Review 41:2 (2019): 345–458. DOI: Revisiting the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): International Histories of Agriculture, Nutrition,and Development online review Archived 31 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  • Abbott, John Cave. Politics and Poverty: A Critique of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Routledge, 1992).
  • Hambidge, Gove. The Story of FAO (1955)
  • Jachertz, Ruth. "'To Keep Food Out of Politics': The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 1945–1965", in International Organizations and Development, 1945–1990, eds. Marc Frey, Sönke Kunkel and Corinna R. Unger (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 75–100.
  • Pernet, Corinne A., and Amalia Ribi Forclaz. "Revisiting the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): International Histories of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development", International History Review 41:2 (2019): 345–350, historiography.
  • Pernet, Corinne A. "FAO from the Field and from Below: Emma Reh and the Challenges of Doing Nutrition Work in Central America." International History Review 41.2 (2019): 391–406.
  • Ribi Forclaz, Amalia. "From Reconstruction to Development: The Early Years of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Conceptualization of Rural Welfare, 1945–1955." International History Review 41.2 (2019): 351–371.
  • Siegel, Benjamin. "'The Claims of Asia and the Far East': India and the FAO in the Age of Ambivalent Internationalism." International History Review 41.2 (2019): 427–450.
  • Staples, Amy L.S. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945–1965 (Kent State University Press, 2006).
  • Tracy, Sarah W. "A global journey–Ancel Keys, the FAO, and the rise of transnational heart disease epidemiology, 1949–1958." International History Review 41.2 (2019): 372–390.
  • Maunder, Mike. "Plant Conservation". Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, vol. 6, 2013, pp. 76–89.
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