GK
WORLD ORGANISATIONS
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Paris
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Rome
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Madrid
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Washington
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Detailed explanation-1: -Originally built under the Fascist government of Italy in the 1930s to be the seat of the Ministry of Italian Africa, the building was repurposed after World War II to be the headquarters of the then-new United Nations’ agricultural agency, the FAO.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rome is the seat of the FAO, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, of the World Food Programme (WFP) and of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Detailed explanation-3: -On 16 October 1945, 42 countries assembled in Quebec, Canada, to create the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Their goal was to free humanity from hunger and malnutrition, and to effectively manage the global food system – more information on FAO’s origin is available here.