FAO DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE PROJECTS TO BOOST THE AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL MANY international organisations have an impact on the fish farming sector, although with quite a narrow remit, drawing up specialist health and environmental standards for the industry, for instance. However, the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has a broader role, with freedom to pursue a wide variety of imaginative schemes. Based in Rome, it was established in 1945 as a forum to negotiate food agreements, debate policy and disseminate knowledge and information, through research, expert papers, staging conferences and symposiums. ...
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