Institutions

Food and Agriculture Organization

Also Known As FAO

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General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Food and Agriculture Organization." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/institutions/food-and-agriculture-organization.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Food and Agriculture Organization. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/institutions/food-and-agriculture-organization

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-food-and-agriculture-organization,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Food and Agriculture Organization},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/institutions/food-and-agriculture-organization},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Founding Year

1945 1

Headquarters

Rome, Italy 1

Sources

1. Food and Agriculture Organization (Wikipedia)

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