UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Farmers selling conservation agriculture goods, including onions, in Meru County, Kenya. Conservation agriculture projects, supported partly by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, strive to maximize crop production while minimizing ecological disturbances. ©FAO/LUIS TATO 
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has existed at the periphery of UN agencies and been a focus of critics almost since its founding in 1945, as the vehicle for ending hunger and achieving food security.

 UN: Four million Syrians could starve as aid delivery lags
A volunteer shares out food to the people in the Bab al-Salam refugee camp for displaced Syrians near the border with Turkey on 2 July 2013. (Photo: AFP – JM Lopez)
 
 Four million Syrians, a fifth of the population, are unable to produce or buy enough food to survive, the United Nations said on Friday.