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Food and Agriculture Organization

Food and Agriculture Organization

1 3.2
A United Nations agency that works to reduce hunger and improve farming worldwide
  • proper noun
  • Formal
translation icon : Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura
  • Supplies are now very tight across the world, and reserves are at a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year," said Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization
  • United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Examples

  • According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1996), in many African countries, women represent 70% of the field labor, are responsible for supplying 90% of the domestic water supply, and are responsible for between 60% and 80% of the production of food consumed and sold by the family.

    Blog text (4)

  • The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) aims to improve food security worldwide by collaborating with various countries.

  • The expression has been defined and used for years, perhaps most succinctly by the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): "Food security means access by all people at all times to the food needed for a healthy life."

    Academic text (2010)

  • According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, sustainable farming practices are essential for future food production.

  • The Food and Agriculture Organization recently launched a campaign to promote healthier diets in developing nations.

Synonyms

FAO
vsFood and Agriculture Organization
5 4.1

An international organization that works to stop hunger and improve farming in many countries

uses the full formal name instead of an abbreviation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
vsFood and Agriculture Organization
  • Formal
1 3.9

A United Nations group that works to end hunger and help farming and food supply worldwide

is the shorter name omitting explicit United Nations mention

Surface Forms

Food and Agriculture Organization main

Morphology

food + and + agriculture + organization

The phrase is transparently compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'food', 'agriculture', 'and', and 'organization' can infer it denotes an organization concerned with food and agriculture. Although it is the proper name of a UN agency (specific institutional status requires extra knowledge), the basic meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and is cross-linguistically transparent.

Etymology

Food and Agriculture Organization was named very plainly: it brings together work on Food and Agriculture so countries can plan how to 'feed people' and help 'farmers' around the world.