PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - Here, at the Experimental Station set up in Guinobatan (Albay) to combat the dreaded ?adang-kadang", FAO plant virologist, Dr. Karl Maramorosch (2nd from left), demonstrates to...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - An Experimental Station has been set up in Guinobatan (Albay), eastern Philippines, the heart of the disease-infested area. Extensive research is being conducted by the staff o...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - An Experimental Station set up in Guinobatan (Albay), serves as the principal centre for the anti-kadang campaign. An expert from FAO is cooperating in the campaign and in an e...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - A plant virologist from the Food and Agriculture Organization is cooperating with the staff of an Experimental Station set up in Guinobatan (Albay) to combat ?adang-kadang". He...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - Here, a mobile sprayer is being used to spray trees in the Guinobatan (Albay) area, heart of the ?adang-kadang" infested zone, where an Experimental Station has been set up to...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - Here, at the Guinobatan Experimental Station located in the heart of the ?adang-kadan" infested area, Dr. R. Baltazar, a Philippine plant virologist, inspects one of the inocul...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - Here is the view of a section of the ?adang-kadang" infested area, with the Mt. Mayon volcano in the background. An Experimental Station has been set up in Guinobatan (Albay) t...

PhilippinesThe Philippines, 1960 - Using a sharpened end of a steel plough to husk coconuts. Skilled huskers can handle 20 coconuts per minute. The Philippine coconut industry is one of the country's most im...

NIGERIAFORESTRY FACULTY AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN IBADAN, Nigeria, February 1967. Due to a limited supply of timber, and increasing demands for firewood and lumber for construction, Nigeria has felt it im...

ECUADORFORESTRY TRAINING CENTRE IN ECUADOR. Conocoto, 1968 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), serving as Executing Agency for the UN Development Programme (UNDP), is assisting the Government of...

United States of America24 November 2015, New York, United States - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva poses for a group photo with a members of the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) 2nd r...

United States of America30 January 1947, United Nations (Lake Success), New York - FAO's Preparatory Commission on World Food Proposals Australia's Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, chairman of the Preparatory Commission of Worl...

United States of America08 December 1961, United Nations, New York, USA - Plan for Establishment of World Food Program by UN and FAO Outlined to Economic Committee. A plan for provision of food surpluses to food-deficient pe...

NETHERLANDS6 to 30 June, 1970, The Hague, The Netherlands - Second World Food Congress (WFC). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations held its Second World Food Congress (WFC) at the Hague fr...

ITALYSir John Boyd Orr, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from 1945-1948, (R) and Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary-General, signing the protocol bringing F...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA01 April 1948, Washington D.C. - Norris E. Dodd acclaimed for his appointment as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization at a special session.

POLANDYear 1947, Poland - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sent a mission to Poland to study the economic and technical problems involved in the rehabilitation and improvement of t...

ITALYYear 1947, Italy - New ways of solving old problems are shown to experts and governments in dozens of countries through technical assistance programs of United Nations and its affiliated specialized a...

VENEZUELAYear 1948, Venezuela - In search of new sources of food and fats, FAO has sent a scientific mission to Venezuela, to study the possibilities of utilizing the wild oil-bearing palm nuts. In the rich, a...

Year 1949 - FAO Chief of Plant Industry Branch Dr. L. E. Kirk and Elsie Markley of the FAO Agriculture Division fill the five-pound canvas sacks with seed of Wisconsin-developed hybrids purchased by F...

Year 1949 - Eradication of rinderpest, the cattle disease which kills some 2,000,000 farm animals every year is now a practical possibility, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICAYear 1948, Brookville, Maryland - FAO Director-General Norris E. Dodd talking to a farmer in Brookville, Maryland in the United States.

THAILANDYear 1947 - Members of the Mission for Siam of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) observe the method of extracting cooking salt from the soil with the use of filters ma...

ITALYYear 1949, Bergamo - Sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), an experimental program with hybrid maize began in Europe in 1948, and since then has been continue...

EGYPT14 February 1948, Cairo - A group of delegates to the Near-Eastern Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) pictured outside the Agricultural Museum, Ca...

GREECEYear 1948, Athens - Children taking breakfast in a school provided by a joint UNICEF - FAO project.

SWITZERLANDYear 1949, Genolier - Members of the European Commission on Forestry and Forest Products visiting a tree nursery at Genolier (Vaud) are, left to right: Mr. Albert Herbignat, Belgium; Mr. Folke C.H. Jo...

SWITZERLANDYear 1949, Genolier - Members of the European Commission on Forestry and Forest Products visiting a tree nursery at Genolier (Vaud) during field trip in the Commune of Bassins. The Commission is compo...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA04 February 1947, New York - Sir John Boyd-Orr, right, Director-General of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary-General, signing the p...

SWITZERLANDYear 1949, Geneva - The leading forestry authorities of Europe recently concluded a series of discussions at Geneva to coordinate Europe's forestry policies and increase production of timber on an ove...