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    The FAO is a specialized UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. It has 194 member countries and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The FAO works to eliminate hunger and malnutrition, increase agricultural productivity, reduce rural poverty, and ensure sustainable use of natural resources. It aims to create food-secure worlds and eradicate poverty. Some of its key achievements include eliminating the disease Rinderpest, establishing the Codex Alimentarius food standards, contributing to the Green Revolution in Asia, and helping reduce hunger in Latin America.

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    The FAO is a specialized UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. It has 194 member countries and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The FAO works to eliminate hunger and malnutrition, increase agricultural productivity, reduce rural poverty, and ensure sustainable use of natural resources. It aims to create food-secure worlds and eradicate poverty. Some of its key achievements include eliminating the disease Rinderpest, establishing the Codex Alimentarius food standards, contributing to the Green Revolution in Asia, and helping reduce hunger in Latin America.

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    FAO

    Food and Agriculture


    Organization
    GROUP NO 2
    Group Members
    01 02 03
    Kinza Maryam Bisma Sajid Huzaifa Sadiq
    Introduction FAO Members FAO Global Goals

    04 05 06
    Hanzala Abbas Tooba Majeed Mamoona Ahmed
    FAO Tasks FAO Departments FAO Acheivements
    01
    Introduction
    Kinza Maryam 16
    What is FAO?
    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
    is a specialized agency of the United Nations
    that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
     Oldest permanent specialized agency of
    the United Nations, established in October
    1945 
     Its Headquartered in Rome Italy and
    maintain offices throughout the world
     The organization has more than 194
    members
     The Motto of FAO is “let there be bread”
    02
    FAO Members
    Bisma Sajid 08
    FAO Members?
    Albania
     Matching FAO’s expertise to Albania’s development priorities,
    FAO assistance in Albania is shaped by the 2019 ‑2021 FAO
    Country Programming Framework (CPF), which is center on
    two priority areas. Increasing rural income and improving
    support to smallholders and family farms.
     Strengthening legal and institutional frameworks for agrifood
    production.
    Spain
     For many years Spain has been an important partner and worked
    closely with FAO.
     Focusing on the fisheries sector and the promotion of policies
    that guarantee the right to food.
     Protect plant genetic resources and food security.
    FAO Members?
    France
    Strategic partnership:
    Framework Agreement (2018-2021s) renews the partnership
    between FAO and France, including the following priority
    areas:
    ➨ Improving food security and nutrition governance and policy
    .
    ➨ Strengthening the economic, social and environmental
    performance of agriculture food systems.
    Belgium
    ➨ Strengthening health safety in the plant, animal and food
    sectors . Food security as a catalyst for achieving the SDGs.
    Promoting the role and rights of women as a key to thriving rural
    economies.
     Placing farmers at the center of agriculture development.
    FAO Members?
    Germany
    Partnership between Germany and FAO have certain Priority
    areas,
    ➨ Food and nutrition security.
    ➨ Famine prevention.
    ➨ Innovation in the agricultural and food sectors.
    ➨ Structural transformation in rural areas.
    ➨ Natural resource protection.
    03
    FAO Global Goals
    Huzaifa Sajid 34
    Global Goals
     Reduction of number of people suffering from hunger.
     Eliminate of poverty.
     Sustainable management and utilization of natural resources.
     Leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
     Act as a neutral forum.
     It is a source of knowledge and information.
     Helps developing countries improve agriculture, forestry, fisheries,
    and ensure good nutrition for all.
     Public –private partnership.
    04
    FAO Tasks
    Hanzla Abbas 49
    FAO Tasks
    ● Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity, and ● Providing a meeting place for nations neutral
    malnutrition. forum FAO provides the setting where rich and
    poor nations can come together to build common
    ● Make agriculture, forestry, and fisheries more understanding.
    productive and sustainable.
    ● Bringing knowledge to the field thousands of field
    ● Reduce rural poverty. projects throughout the world.
    ● Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food ● FAO mobilizes and manages millions of dollars
    systems. provided by industrialized countries, development
    ● Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and banks and other sources.
    crises. ● FAO provides the technical know-how and in a
    ● Creating national strategies to achieve rural few cases is a limited source of funds.
    development and hunger alleviation goal.
    05
    FAO Departments
    Tooba Majeed 21
    FAO Departments
    There are seven department of FAO. These are
    ● The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department
    It promotes agriculture to eradicate human poverty while also protecting the
    environment and ensuring safe food practices and standards .

    ● The Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department


    The Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department promotes sustainable
    management practices for land, soils, energy, water, biodiversity, and genetic
    resources.
    FAO Departments
    • The corporate service department
    The Corporate Services Department supports the entire FAO
    organization.
    To promote a safe and healthy working environment for all
    employees

    • The Economic and Social Development


    The Economic and Social Development Department
    promotes economic development through internal production
    and trade
    Provide partnerships through which vulnerable individuals,
    groups and communities become capable and active
    participants in the development of society.
    FAO Departments
    ● Technical cooperation and program management department
    ● Supports member countries in their programs and helps in solving food-
    and agriculture-related threats and crises.
    Technical Cooperation Programme aims to help countries improve food security
    and alleviate poverty in a lasting
    ● The Forestry Department
    ● Promotes the management of resources through forestry.
    Halting deforestation and forest degradation
    ● Fisheries and aquaculture department
    ● Promotes the management of aquaculture and fishing.
    Enhance preparedness and response to emergencies affecting
    aquaculture
    06
    FAO Achievements
    Mamoona Ahmed 53
    FAO Achievments
    ● Eradicated Rinderpest:
    lt was declared eradicated in 2011, through a program coordinated by FAO
    making it the first animal disease to be eliminated in the history of humankind.
    For centuries, Rinderpest caused the death of millions of cattle, buffalo, yak and
    wild animals, leading to famine and starvation

    ● Codex Alimentarious:
    Also called Food Code
    Aim: contribution to the protection of public health and fair practices in the food
    trade.
    FAO Achievments
    ● The Green Revolution in Asia:

    ● The Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s


    helped end hunger for hundreds of millions of
    people, particularly in Asia. This was achieved
    thanks to the unprecedented increase in food
    production resulting from the mass cultivation
    of improved cereal varieties, especially wheat
    and rice, and the adoption of modern crop
    production practices.
    FAO Achievments
    ● Fight against hunger in Latin America and the
    Caribbean

    ● The political mobilisation of Latin American


    countries to end undernourishment has produced
    benchmark initiatives such as the “Zero Hunger”
    project in Brazil or the CELAC‘s (Community of
    Latin American and Caribbean States) Plan for
    Food and Nutrition Security and the Eradication
    of Hunger. It is the region that has made the most
    progress in recent years.

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