The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations.

Today, FAO is one of the largest specialized agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development.

A specific priority of the Organization is to encourage sustainable agriculture and rural development, draw up a long-term strategy for increasing food production and food security while at the same time conserving and managing natural resources.

  

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The Department for International Development (DFID) is a department of the UK Government responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty in developing countries.

The central focus of the Government’s policy, set out in the 1997 White Paper on International Development, is a commitment to the International Development Targets, to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.

DFID seeks to work in partnership with governments, private sector, civil society and the research community. DFID works with multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, United Nations agencies like the FAO, and the European Community.

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oneFish is an internet portal that provides access to information on fisheries, aquatic research and development activities.  

oneFish provides a conductive environment for the documentation and publication of the results of studies conducted by individual researchers, research institutes and organisations, on the web.

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Livelihoods Connect is a web site providing information relevant on DFID’s work on sustainable livelihoods (SL). The site proposes guidance, experience and lessons learnt, tools and materials on SL to people interesting to use the SL approach in rural development activities or for personal development.

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The mission of the FAO Fisheries Department (FI) is to facilitate and secure the sustainable development and utilization of the world’s fisheries and aquaculture in the long term.

FAO is acutely aware of the fundamental social and economic role played by the fisheries sector in meeting global and national sustainable food security, providing employment for fishing communities as a means of alleviating poverty and stemming rural/urban drift, contributing to national and international trade, and generating national income. 

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