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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO
Leading international efforts to defeat hunger through agricultural standards, data, and knowledge sharing.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized UN agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. FAO develops and maintains important metadata standards and controlled vocabularies for agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and food, including AGROVOC, the AGRIS metadata schema, and the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System.
