UN System Documentation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Constitution (1945)
  • Functions and assets of former International Institute of Agriculture in Rome transferred to FAO
• Relationship Agreement with UN (1946)
  • 1 UNTS 207
• Governing Bodies
  • FAO Conference: all members, meets every other year
  • FAO Council: 49 members elected for 3 years, acts as the Conference's executive organ between sessions
• Legal texts
  • Basic texts of the Food and Agriculture Organization, 2017
  • FAO Treaties Database
• Flagship publications
  • State of Food and Agriculture
  • State of World's Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • State of the World’s Forests
  • State of Agricultural Commodity Markets
  • State of Food Security and Nutrition (State of Food Insecurity)
• Data
  • Statistics databases
  • FAOLEX
    • national legislation and international agreements concerning food and agriculture
  • FAO Term Portal
• David Lubin Memorial Library

FAO Directors-General

• 2019- : Qu Dongyu (China)
• 2012-2019 : José Graziano da Silva (Brazil) 
• 1994-2011: Jacques Diouf (Senegal) (Press release FAO/3587 [1994], SAG/65 [1999])
• 1976-1993: Edouard Saouma (Lebanon) (Press release FAO/3422 [1987])
• 1968-1975: Addeke Hendrick Boerma (Netherlands)
• 1956-1967: Binay Ranjan Sen (India)
• 1956: Sir Herbert Broadley (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) [Acting Director-General]
• 1954-1956: Philip V. Cardon (United States of America)
• 1948-1953: Norris E. Dodd (United States of America)
• 1945-1948: Sir John Boyd Orr (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)