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History of creation. Decision on the need to create an intergovernmental organization for coordination and implementation international solutions and action plans aimed at solving food problems in the world, regional and national levels were adopted at the 1943 held in May 1943 in G.Hot Springs (USA) of the International Conference on Food and Agriculture. Representatives of 44 states took part in her work, incl. The USSR, who spoke as founders of the Food and Agriculture United Nations / FAO (Cut from "FAO" - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.). In the spring of 1945, the Conference Established at the Conference Commission completed its work on the preparation of the FAO Charter's draft.

Official institution FAO took place on October 16, 1945 at its first conference in Quebec (Canada) after receiving the temporary commission of notifications from 20 states on the adoption of the Charter of the Organization. This day is celebrated annually as World Food Day.

As of March 1, 2005, members of FAO were 187 states and the European Union (EU).

In 1946, an agreement was concluded between FAO and the United Nations, according to which FAO received the status of the UN specialized institution on nutrition, food and agriculture.

FAO main objectives: Improving the quality of food and the standard of living of people, ensuring the increase in the efficiency of production and distribution of all food and agricultural products, the improvement of the situation of the rural population and the promotion of the growth of the global economy and the deliverance of humanity from hunger and malnutrition.

The main directions of FAO activities. FAO activities contain, in addition to a professional, important political component, since the agri-food sector of the economy plays important role In the internal I. foreign Policy Each country.

Within the framework of the statutory functions and areas of FAO activities, it acts specifically such work as:

Advising Member States in developing effective agrarian policies, including land and other reforms;

Assistance in the development of national legislation on agrarian and other sections of the agro-industrial complex;

Development of effective systems for using land, water, forestry and fish resources and ensuring ambient;

Provision of information on the provision of information and direct transmission to Member States of advanced technologies;

Creating a global gene pool of genetic resources of plants and animals;

Developing international standards Quality different species commercial products of agriculture used in world trade, taking into account the requirements of the World Trade Organization (WTO);

Assistance in improving efficiency plant protection By developing relevant international standards and rules, compliance with the requirements International Convention Plant protection, the depositary of which is FAO;

Development and implementation of measures to combat economically especially dangerous diseases animals (lush, African pig plague, etc.);

Creation to use organization member states automated systems scientific and technical information on agriculture and food;

Creation of a global system of space observation and transmission of information on agroclimatic conditions, a state of crops, biomass, expected crop, as well as about soil erosion processes, etc.;

Providing FAO Investment Center for Member States to prepare and implement technical projects at the expense of their own and attracted by funds;

Preparation of analytical materials on the state of production and trade in agricultural and other goods in the world and individual countries; Collection, generalization and regular publication of statistical data on this subject;

FAO of international forums, technical meetings and meetings in accordance with the Programs approved by the Conference or the FAO Council (such as the World Food Conference, 1974; World Conference on agrarian reform, 1978; World Food Summit, 1996; World Food Summit: Five years later, 2002; Regional conferences conducted on a regular basis and other such activities).

FAO strategy and regular programs are attracted to other intergovernmental and non-governmental agricultural organizations. Among them are the plants and plant protection organizations; on animal husbandry and veterinary medicine; in mechanization and land reclamation; according to the food and food processing industry; on forestry and woodworking industry; fish farming; Trade in agro-industrial products, etc. Total FAO attracts more than 100 such organizations.

FAO established and carries out business connections with many international organizations, primarily with such specialized UN agencies as the UN World Food Program (WFP), an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Children's Foundation UN (UNICEF), International Labor Organization (ILO), World Trade Organization (WTO), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Bank Reconstruction and development (IBRD), International Monetary Fund (IMF). Representatives of international organizations with which FAO has concluded cooperation agreements, are usually present as observers at the sessions of the Organization Conference and on their meetings and meetings held through FAO.

In the system of international organizations, the UN system FAO is a headed intergovernmental organization for the implementation of decisions taken international community In the field of food and agriculture, as well as other industries of the agro-industrial complex, including decisions on sustainable development, environmental protection, the development of world trade.

FAO special programs help Member States prepare for the emergence of a state of emergency with food, and if this provision is created, then in these programs they are provided with special assistance. The Global FAO Information and Early Warning System provides current information on the state of food in the world and allocates countries that threaten the lack of it, as a guide for potential donors. Its food security facilitation system is aimed at assisting Member States, primarily developing, in the creation of national food reserves.

FAO activities are carried out in accordance with the long-term strategy and on its basis regular biennial work programs.

Organizational structure FAO. The Higher FAO authority is the conference of representatives of all Member States of the Organization, convened once every two years. The charter provides for the possibility of convening extraordinary (special) sessions of the Conference.

The conference defines the general policy of the organization, approves its program and budget for a subsequent biennium; adopts the rules of procedure and financial regulations; gives recommendations on food and agriculture for their practical use; Can make recommendations of any international organization on any issue relating to the competence of FAO.

In addition to Member States in the work of the Conference session, associated members may take part (without the right to decisive voice); There may be observers from non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on it.

The substantive issues and policies of the Organization in the field of food and agriculture, as well as the FAO Program and Budget, are discussed in the two commissions created for the period session - respectively, in Commission I and Commission II. All other issues (including procedural, legal and administrative) are discussed at the plenary sessions of the Conference, at which, during the general debate, the delegations set out the positions of their countries on food and agricultural issues.

In addition, for the period of operation of the conference, three subsidiary bodies are being created - the General Committee, the Committee on Powers and the Committee on Resolutions.

In the period between the sessions of the Conference, the management body of the Organization is the Council as part of 49 Member States elected by the Conference for a period of three years. At the same time, the composition of the Council is annually updated by one third. The sessions of the Council are carried out as often as it will consider it necessary. As a rule, they convene twice a year. The independent Chairman of the Council is appointed by a conference for a period of two years.

According to the Charter, FAO has workers in the form of commissions, committees, working groups, etc., which are formed from representatives of Member States in accordance with the Conference approved for them or the FAO procedures, a circle of maintenance and validity period. Expert and maintenance of the work of these bodies provide the relevant units of the FAO secretariat.

On its first after the conference session, the Council elects the Program Committee. Financial Committee and the Committee on Constitutional and legal issuesAll members of which are elected to the listed committees for a period of two years.

In addition to them, at the Council, there are also permanent open-ended committees, in which any Member State of the Organization can take part in which any member state can take part. These include: Committee on Commodity Products, Fisheries Committee, Forest Committee, Agriculture Committee and Committee for World Food Security (CFS).

To ensure the current activities of the organization, the conference elects a period of 6 years (with the right of re-election) of the Director General of FAO, the accountable conference and the Council. From 1994 to the present, they are Jacques Diouf (Senegal), whose credentials expire on December 31, 2005 (in 2000 he was re-elected for a second term). The Director-General is headed by the FAO Secretariat, consisting of 8 departments.

The Department of Agriculture consists of a plant of plant growing and plant protection, land and water development department, livestock and veterinary department, a joint department of FAO / IAEA on the use of atomic technologies in the field of agriculture and food (located in Vienna, Austria), a rural support department farms (issues of economics, financing, mechanization of production, post-harvest processing of harvest, marketing, etc.).

Forestry Department consists of a forestry and planning department, department forest resources, Forestry products department, as well as separation of coordination of forestry programs and information separation and communication.

Department fisheries consists of a department of fisheries and planning and planning with the service of international institutions and connections and development planning service; Fish resource department with resource service inland waters and aquaculture and the service of marine fish resources; Department of the Fish industry with technology, fisheries and services of fish and marketing services; as well as information separation, documentation and statistics and coordination branches.

The Department of Economics and Social Affairs consists of an analysis of the development of agriculture and the economy; Department of Commodity and Trade; Food and nutrition and statistics department. The Department provides assistance to FAO Member States in the development of policies, strategies and the main activities based on issues enshrined after it; Provides advisory and technical services; Collects, analyzes and distributes information within its competence.

The Sustainable Development Department consists of a rural development department with the land lease service and rural institutes service and participation in them; Research department, propaganda and training with propaganda, education and communications service, the development of science and technology services, the natural resource and environmental service and the secretariat of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Joint Group of Agricultural Scientific Research; Department of Population and Gender Affairs with the Development Service and Population and Gender Service and Development.

The Department is designed to promote sustainable development of agriculture and other industries of APK, as well as rural areas of Member States, including issues rational use Natural resources and environmental protection.

The Technical Cooperation Department consists of FAO Policy Promotion Department with the Field Program Development Service, Technical Assistance Policy Coordination Service and Agricultural Policy Support Service; Department for emergency operations and recovery; Department of operations "in the field" and the investment department (including the investment center established in 1964).

The Department of Administration and Finance consists of a financial department, a human resource management department, Department information systems and technology and administrative services department.

The Department of General Affairs and Information consists of a department for servicing the conference and council and protocol issues, the information department and the department of documentation and library affairs.

FAO staff. In 1994 - 2002 FAO was carried out a program for the decentralization of the organization's activities. Over 1330 different posts were transferred to the place (mainly in the Member States). At the same time, the number of FAO secretariat from 5561 people was reduced by 30%. In 1994 to 3950 in 2002 (-1611 people).

As of January 1, 2005, the FAO secretariat consisted of over 3450 people, incl. Over 1450 employees of the category of specialists and 2000 employees of the general service category. Work on further reform and restructuring of the FAO secretariat continues.

Regional offices and a bureau for communication. FAO has representative offices in more than 100 countries, as well as the following regional offices and subregional departments with them:

Regional Office for Africa (Accra, Ghana) and subregional separation for South and East Africa (Harare, Zimbabwe);

Regional Representation for Asia and Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand) and subregional branch for the Pacific Islands (Apia, Samoa);

Regional Representative Office for Europe (Rome, Italy) and subregional branch for countries in Eastern and Central Europe (Budapest, Hungary);

Regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, Chile) and the subregional office for the Caribbean countries (Bridgetown, Barbados);

Regional Office for the Middle East (Cairo, Egypt) and subregional branch for North Africa. (Tunisia, Tunisia).

In addition, FAO has a bureau for communication - in Brussels, Belgium; Washington, USA; Geneva, Switzerland; Yokohama, Japan and New York, USA.

In many states are formed national Committees FAO.

Sources of financing. FAO's software activities are funded both from its own budget and at the expense of funds involved in the organization external sources (Voluntary contributions of Member States and other International Organizations). The revenue part of the FAO's own budget consists of the annual membership contributions from the member states of the organization. FAO budget for 2004-2005 Approved in the amount of 749.1 million US dollars.

Official and working languages. FAO official and working languages \u200b\u200bare English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and French.

FAO editions. FAO editions are numerous and very diverse - from small popular brochures to extensive special research and monographs, various birthdays, quarterly and monthly bulletins, magazines, materials on the results of the meetings, etc.

Since 1947, FAO annually publishes reviews "Position with Food and Agriculture". Big factic material contains "Statistical Yearbook for Food and Agriculture." This publication consists of two volumes: in the first, data on the world's production of the main types of agricultural products, the second is devoted to the review of world trade of agricultural products. In addition, FAO publishes the quarterly magazine "Food and Agriculture Legislation", which publishes the texts of legislation acts different states on food and agriculture, and the "Monthly Bulletin for Economics and Agricultural Statistics", in which, in addition to statistical materials, publishes articles on the situation in agriculture and notes on individual groups of agricultural goods.

FAO publishes consisting of two parts of the "yearbook of forestry products", which analyzes the state of production and market of forest products and provide detailed statistics on production and trade in the main types of forest industry. In addition, FAO produces a quarterly magazine on forestry and forest industry "Unasilva". The FAO Bulletin for Plant Protection is published annually.

FAO publishes "Statistical Fisheries Yearbook", which is also available in two volumes: the first - contains statistics of fish catch, production and distribution of fish products; Second - data, import and export fish products. In addition to the Yearbook, the FAO Bulletin on Fisheries Affairs is published quarterly.

FAO headquarters Located in Rome (Italy) since 1951, it was located in Washington (USA). Postal address: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vialle Delle Terme di Caracalla, 1 - 00100 - Roma - Italia. Phone: (39 06) 570 512. Fax: (39 06) 570 531 52.

FAO has its own website on the Internet (www.fao.org).

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Today we suggest you talk a little about agriculture, which you need us. Our main task is to decipher FAO, a description of this organization, its activities. If it is extremely clear, the organization performs in the form of a forum. At this event, the country can coordinate decisions relating to the theme of food security. Please note that representatives of developed and developing countries can participate on this forum.

So what is FAO? Abbreviation is deciphered as follows: the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. Why then the FAO is reduced? The fact is that the organization refers to the UN, therefore, the language is English. On the this language It sounds like this: Food and Agriculture Organization, or just Fao.

Creature

FAO organization (deciphering the abbreviation was given earlier) has long history creating. We suggest you briefly meet her dates.


	g. Hot Springs, Congress of forty-six countries, discussion of the issue of food collateral.
	FAO establishment, adoption of the Charter of the Organization. Headquarters - Washington.
	Moving an office in Rome.
	The campaign "world is free from hunger."
	Education Commission for Food Compliance Standards.
	Conclusion of contracts with 56 countries and approval of delegates.
10/16/1981	Food day.
	The start of the database.
	Conference where discussed global problems With food, drinking water and unsanitary living conditions.
	The program to ensure food products of countries that need it.
	Code of Fisheries.
	Forum (more than 150 countries) on food lack.
	Convention, controlling trade in hazardous substances.
	Development of measures to eliminate hunger in Africa.
	Year of rice.
	Education of the anti-crisis center.
	Help residents of Pakistan.
	Roman declaration (availability, quality and safety of products for all people).

Objectives of the organization

The tasks of the organization are very severe, but not least for successful and healthy Life each of us. The main ones are:

reducing poverty;
elimination of hunger;
assistance to countries in the development of agriculture, forestry and fisheries;
informing citizens on poverty and hunger.

What ways of FAO reaches the goals? Of course, they develop agriculture, thereby improving food. In principle, the problem of food security is solved and solved. As it was already noted earlier, the organization not only develops these directions, but also monitors the quality of the used products. This is all carried out by this Association (the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO decryption). Corn and other grain crops are subject to classification. If we take, for example, corn, then all existing varieties have a FAO number from 100 to 999.

Activity

FAO (the decoding of the organization's abbreviation was already given repeatedly) develops programs that not only warn countries on possible crises regarding food, but also has required help. These programs and projects collect about two billion dollars every year. Please note that these are all voluntary donations for the development of agriculture.

Once every two years, a conference is convened, where the Council is elected (forty-nine members of the organization), which is the governing body. Highly significant event It happened at a similar conference in 1979, after which for the first time people were able to celebrate World Food Day.

Structure of the organization

FAO (Decoding - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) has the following structure:

CEO	This unit consists of the same one: the UN Coordination Department, the Office, the Division of Legal Questions, budget management and evaluation.
Department of Agriculture	Livestock, veterinary medicine, nuclear methods, power supply, consumer protection, crop production, plant protection, agribusiness.
Department of Development	Economy of agriculture, statistics, trade, markets, employment in rural areas.
Department of Fisheries	Politics, economics, fisheries management.
Department of Forestry	Politics, Economics, Forest Management.
Information and communications	IT department, communication department.
Environmental protection	Climate, bioenergy, land departments and water resources.
Department of Technical Cooperation	Departments: emergency situationsPolicy development.
Resource Department (Human, Financial and Physical)	Departments: Financial, Administrative Services, Managing Human Resources.

Priority areas

The main activity is forest, water and agriculture. FAO, the decoding of which was already given earlier, chose the following main activities:

fighting hunger;
increasing the sustainability of agriculture;
elimination of poverty;
warning and disaster assistance.

Preservation of resources

Another type of activity is the preservation of the biological diversity of animals and plants that people use for their own purposes. FAO organization (decoding - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) believes that this is the most biological diversity - This is the first condition for food production.

Which is so necessary for us. Our main task is to decipher FAO, a description of this organization, its activities. If it is extremely clear, the organization performs in the form of a forum. At this event, the country can coordinate decisions relating to the theme of food security. Please note that representatives of developed and developing countries can participate on this forum.

So what is FAO? The abbreviation is deciphered as follows: why then FAO is reduced? The fact is that the organization refers to the UN, therefore, the language is English. In this language, it sounds like this: Food and Agriculture Organization, or just FAO.

Creature

FAO organization (deciphering the abbreviation was previously given) has a long history of creation. We suggest you briefly meet her dates.


	g. Hot Springs, Congress of forty-six countries, discussion of the issue of food collateral.
	FAO establishment, adoption of the Charter of the Organization. Headquarters - Washington.
	Moving an office in Rome.
	The campaign "world is free from hunger."
	Education Commission for Food Compliance Standards.
	Conclusion of contracts with 56 countries and approval of delegates.
10/16/1981	Food day.
	The start of the database.
	The conference, where global food problems, drinking water and unsanitary living conditions were discussed.
	The program to ensure food products of countries that need it.
	Code of Fisheries.
	Forum (more than 150 countries) on food lack.
	Convention, controlling trade in hazardous substances.
	Development of measures to eliminate hunger in Africa.
	Year of rice.
	Education of the anti-crisis center.
	Help residents of Pakistan.
	Roman declaration (availability, quality and safety of products for all people).

Objectives of the organization

The tasks of the organization are very severe, but not least for the successful and healthy life of each of us. The main ones are:

reducing poverty;
elimination of hunger;
assistance to countries in the development of agriculture, forestry and fisheries;
informing citizens on poverty and hunger.

Activity

FAO (the decoding was already given repeatedly) develops programs that not only warn countries about possible crises regarding food, but also provides the necessary assistance. These programs and projects collect about two billion dollars every year. Please note that these are all voluntary donations for the development of agriculture.

Once every two years, a conference is convened, where the Council is elected (forty-nine members of the organization), which is the governing body. A very important event occurred at a similar conference in 1979, after which for the first time people were able to celebrate World Food Day.

Structure of the organization

FAO (Decoding - Food and Agriculture has the following structure:

CEO	This unit consists of the same one: the UN Coordination Department, the Office, the Division of Legal Questions, budget management and evaluation.
Department of Agriculture	Livestock, veterinary medicine, nuclear methods, power supply, consumer protection, crop production, plant protection, agribusiness.
Department of Development	Economy of agriculture, statistics, trade, markets, employment in rural areas.
Department of Fisheries	Politics, economics, fisheries management.
Department of Forestry	Politics, Economics, Forest Management.
Information and communications	IT department, communication department.
Environmental protection	Climate, bioenergy, land and water resources.
Department of Technical Cooperation	Departments: Emergencies, Policy Development.
Resource Department (Human, Financial and Physical)	Departments: Financial, Administrative Services, Managing Human Resources.

Priority areas

The main activity is forest, water and agriculture. FAO, the decoding of which was already given earlier, chose the following main activities:

fighting hunger;
increasing the sustainability of agriculture;
elimination of poverty;
warning and disaster assistance.

Preservation of resources

Another type of activity is animals and plants that people use for their own purposes. FAO organization (Decoding - Food and Agriculture believes that this is the most biological diversity - this is the first condition for the production of food.

A source: Ministry of Economic Development of Russia

Organization Des Nations-Unies Pour L'Alimentation ET L'Agriculture (FAO)

Location: Rome, Italy
Founded: October 16, 1945
Created: decision General Assembly UN
Membership:191 Country and 2 Associate Members
CEO: Jose Graziana da Silva (Brazil) from January 1, 2012
Working languages:english, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized UN agency, founded on October 16, 1945 in Quebec (Canada). FAO acts as a leading institution engaged in the problems of the development of rural regions and agricultural production. The motto of the organization: "We help build a world without hunger."

As main tasks Organizations are defined:

collection of information and statistical data on nutrition in different countries;
development of hungry assistance programs;
development veterinary medicine and the struggle against epidemics among farm animals;
distribution of education among farmers, fishermen, culinary and foodstuffs of different countries;
development of food standards and recommendations for their implementation worldwide.

FAO activities are aimed at reducing the sharpness of the problem of poverty and hunger in the world by promoting the development of agriculture, improving nutrition and solving the problem of food security - accessibility to all and always the nutrition needed for active and healthy life. FAO acts as a neutral forum, as well as as a source of knowledge and information. It helps developing countries and countries in the transition period to modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

Governing bodies Organizations are:

Authorized bodies in industry subject:

The highest governing body is Conference of Member States The convened every two years to consider global political issues and international framework structures, as well as to summarize and approval budget for the next two years. For the general management of the program and budget activities of the organization, the conference participants elect Council consisting of 49 members and acting as governing body between the sessions of the conference. Conference participants also elect General Director For a four-year term of office with the right one re-election. The current Director General Jose Graziana da Silva took office on January 1, 2012, his term of office expires on July 31, 2015.

General Director FAO manages the activities of the Office for Legal Affairs, the Bureau of Coordination and Decentralization and Management for Program, Budget and Evaluation. In addition to these divisions, eight sectoral departments apply as part of the General Directorate: agriculture and consumer protection; Economic I. social Development; Fisheries and fish farming; forestry; information and communication; Office natural resources and environmental protection; technical cooperation; human, financial and physical resources.

FAO representatives work in more than 130 states in the world. Decentralized representative offices of FAO form a network consisting of five regional, eleven subregional departments, two multidisciplinary groups of specialists, 74 departments in the states (except those that are in regional and subregional offices), eight offices with technical experts or representatives of FAO, as well as representative offices with multiple accreditation in 36 countries. In addition, the FAO structure includes five bonds on relationships and four information offices in developed countries.

FAO headquarters

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO)
VIALE DELLE TERME DI CARACALLA, 00153 ROMA, ITALIA
Tel: (8-10-39-06) 570-51; Fax: (8-10-39-06) 570-53152
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Permanent Representation of the Russian Federation in FAO and other international organizations in Rome (Italy):

(Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO) is an intergovernmental international organization dealing with food resources and the development of agriculture of various countries.

FAO was founded on October 16, 1945 in Quebec (Canada), where, at the invitation of the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, representatives of states were gathered for the signing of the Charter of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

FAO plays a leading role in international activitiesaimed at combating hunger. Working both with developed and developing countries, it acts as a neutral forum, where all states are found on an equal basis in order to discuss agreements and conducting discussions on food policy issues.

FAO also helps developing countries and countries with economies in transition to modernize and improve the methods of rural, forestry and fisheries and ensure proper nutrition for the entire population.

The central direction of FAO is the achievement of food security for all countries: ensuring such a situation in which people will regularly have access to the respondents of high quality food standards in sufficient quantities for conducting active, healthy life.

The main objectives of FAO are to increase nutrition quality, an increase in labor productivity in agriculture, improving the living conditions of the rural population and promoting the growth of the global economy.

Suitable cEO Jose Grazian da Silva took office on January 1, 2012, his term of office would last until July 31, 2015.

FAO headquarters is located in Rome (Italy). In addition to her, the organization has a representative office in 130 states at its disposal.

The decentralized representative offices of FAO form a network consisting of five regional bureaus, eleven subregional bureaus, two multidisciplinary groups of specialists, 74 representative offices in the states (except those that are in regional and subregional bureaus), eight representative offices with technical experts or FAO representatives, as well as Representative offices with multiple accreditation in 36 countries. In addition, the FAO structure includes five bonds and four information representations in developed countries.

FAO activities are funded by authorized and voluntary contributions. Statutory contributions are contributions from Member States, the size of which is established at the FAO conference. The FAO regular budget for 2012-2013 is one billion dollars.

Voluntary contributions from Member States and other partners are used to provide technical and emergency governments, as well as to directly promote the main activities of FAO. In 2012-2013, voluntary contributions are expected to exceed 1.4 billion dollars.

Material prepared on the basis of RIA news and open sources