The United Nations agency for food and agriculture, founded in 1945 with the mandate of freedom from hunger. From its Rome headquarters the FAO runs the world's agricultural statistics, sets food standards through the Codex Alimentarius, and coordinates responses to locusts, animal disease and famine. Its yearbooks are the baseline numbers nearly every claim about world farming rests on. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year Headquarters Classification
KindIntergovernmental or UN Agricultural Body 1 Connections
Associated With
Food Security, Concepts Food security is the core mandate of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Has Member
Source Binay Ranjan Sen (Wikipedia)
Source Jacques Diouf (Wikipedia)
Source Jose Graziano da Silva (Wikipedia)
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Food and Agriculture Organization
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The United Nations agency for food and agriculture, founded in 1945 with the mandate of freedom from hunger.
Jacques Diouf (Wikipedia)
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Jacques Diouf (1 August 1938-17 August 2019) was a Senegalese diplomat and the Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 1994 to 31 December 2011.
Binay Ranjan Sen (Wikipedia)
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He served as director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from 1956 to 1967.
Jose Graziano da Silva (Wikipedia)
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On June 26, 2011, Graziano was elected director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), becoming the first Latin American ever to hold the position.
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