Founded in 1943; headquarters in Rome. Its goal is to achieve freedom from hunger worldwide. According to its constitution the specific objectives are ‘raising the levels of nutrition and standards of living and securing improvements in the efficiency of production and distribution of all food and agricultural products’; website http://www.fao.org.
Established in 1945, the main purpose of is to raise the levels of nutrition and the standards of living of the people of the United Nations’ member states. Periodic estimates are made of the food available to each member nation in an attempt to improve food production and distribution is headquartered in Rome, Italy.