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Food Aid
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The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food distribution agency of
the United Nations system and the largest food aid provider in the world.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) works to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living and productivity in regard to agriculture and living conditions in rural areas of the world. It promotes international food standards and fair practices in food trade in the struggle to eradicate hunger worldwide.
Documentation
Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the food aid delivered by the United Nations with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
For documentation from the World Food Programme: see DagDok WFP.
For documentation from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: see DagDok, section FAO.
Databases and Indexes
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links to
full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Subject search can be performed through the UN official web site, section Economic and Social Development, Index to Programmes.
A web portal for information on the United Nations activities in the field of food aid and hunger with links to UN main bodies and focal points and full text documents and reports is posted at the Official web site of the United Nations, section Global Issues, Food.
Printed Indexes