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Food and Agriculture Organization

Specialized agency of the United Nations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Canada.

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“Food and Agriculture Organization” enters the record as specialized agency of the United Nations. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Food, Agriculture and Organization can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Food and Agriculture Organization” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.