With its headquarters in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations programs seek to raise levels of nutrition and standard of living; to improve the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of food and agricultural products; to promote rural development; and, by these means, to eliminate hunger. FAO's efforts to eliminate the Mediterranean fruit fly from the Caribbean Basin benefit the U.S. citrus industry. Likewise, U.S. cattle raisers have a direct stake in FAO efforts to eliminate a tick found in the Caribbean that carries a threatening cattle disease. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Nutrition is the study of the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. ... The Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people. ... Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. ... Hunger is applied literally to the need or craving for food; it can also be applied metaphorically to cravings of other sorts. ... Fruit fly can refer to any animal of the family Tephritidae (large fruit flies) or Drosophilidae (small fruit flies or vinegar flies) the species Drosophila melanogaster, an important model organism in modern biology; this species is also sometimes simply called Drosophila. ... ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called simply cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Families Ixodidae - Hard ticks Argasidae - Soft ticks Tick is the common name for the small wingless arachnids that, along with mites, constitute the order Acarina. ...

The FAO was founded in 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 the headquarters were moved from Washington,_D.C., United States to Rome, Italy. As of December 3, 2003, it had 188 members (187 states and the European Community, List of FAO members). 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (Gift of God shall make prosper) Area: 547. ... Beginning in 1963, a terrorist group that became known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices and at least two murders by FLQ gunfire and three violent deaths by bombings. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

The main activities concentrate on four areas:

1. Developing assistance to developing countries.
2. Information about nutrition, food, agriculture, forestry and fishery.
3. Advice to governments.
4. Neutral forum to discuss and formulate policy on major food and agriculture issues.

A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ... A policy is a plan of action for tackling issues. ...

External links

• Website of the FAO