What is FAO and how does it work ?
Established in 1945, FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, is the UN’s largest technical agency and is among the world’s leading international agriculture, forestry and fishery technical development organisations. Today FAO has 174 member governments, a comprehensive regional representation structure (e.g. a Regional Office for Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Near East and North America; and with sub-regional offices for Southern and Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe, Pacific, Caribbean and Mahreb countries), a physical presence in more than 100 countries and, at its headquarters in Rome, a cadre of specialists in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related disciplines. The fact that FAO houses under the same roof, so to speak, all the major disciplines related to overall agriculture development puts it in a unique position with respect to the pursuit of holistic agricultural and agro-industrial development programmes, including those related to the susta
