{"id":12206,"date":"2026-09-05T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:04:34","slug":"food-and-agriculture-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/food-and-agriculture-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Agriculture Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Food and Agriculture Organization Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the United Nations&#8217; Food and Agriculture Organization said that world \u200bfood prices rose in August to their highest since late 2022, as adverse weather and \u200cwar disruption in the Black Sea heightened concern over supply of staples.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Food and Agriculture Organization<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a specialized agency of the <\/span><b>United Nations (UN)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>oldest permanent specialized<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> agency of the UN, <\/span><b>established in October 1945.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Mandate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To improve nutrition, increase agricultural productivity, raise the standard of living in rural populations, and contribute to global economic growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Functions<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FAO coordinates the <\/span><b>efforts of governments and technical agencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and water resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It leads international efforts to fight hunger.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>both a forum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for negotiating agreements between developing and developed countries and a source of technical knowledge and information to aid development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Members:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It currently has <\/span><b>195 members \u2013 194 countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>European Union<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (India is a founding member of FAO)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Funding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> FAO receives its <\/span><b>funding from its member countries.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reports published by the FAO:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The State of the World\u2019s Forests (SOFO), The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA), The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO), The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rome, Italy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/health\/fao-evaluates-potential-and-challenges-of-traditional-herbal-medicines-for-wider-usage-in-livestock#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":122996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3326,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-food-and-agriculture-organization","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123007,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/123007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}