Offices




FAO headquartersedit

The world headquarters are located in Rome, in the former seat of the Department of Italian East Africa. One of the most notable features of the building was the Axum Obelisk which stood in front of the agency seat, although just outside the territory allocated to FAO by the Italian Government. It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini's troops in 1937 as a war chest, and returned on 18 April 2005.

Regional officesedit

  • Regional Office for Africa, in Accra, Ghana
  • Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, in Budapest, Hungary
  • Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago, Chile
  • Regional Office for the Near East, in Cairo, Egypt

Sub-regional officesedit

  • Sub-regional Office for Central Africa (SFC), in Libreville, Gabon
  • Sub-regional Office for Central Asia, in Ankara, Turkey
  • Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (SFE), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Sub-regional Office for Mesoamerica (SLM), in Panama City, Panama
  • Sub-regional Office for North Africa, in Tunis, Tunisia
  • Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa and East Africa, in Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean, in Bridgetown, Barbados
  • Sub-regional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council States and Yemen, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Sub-regional Office for the Pacific Islands, in Apia, Samoa

Liaison officesedit

  • Liaison Office for North America, in Washington, DC
  • Liaison Office with Japan, in Yokohama
  • Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium, in Brussels
  • Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, in Moscow
  • Liaison Office with the United Nations, in Geneva
  • Liaison Office with the United Nations, in New York

Partnership and Liaison Officesedit

Partnership and Liaison Offices provide for stronger country participation in FAO's work and programmes at national, subregional, regional and interregional levels as well as enhanced cooperation through unilateral trust fund projects and South-South Cooperation.

  • Azerbaijan
  • Cameroon
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Kazakhstan
  • Mexico
  • Republic of Korea

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