Glossary



  • FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization
    • United Nations organisation set up on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City in Canada to direct the international drives to overcome world hunger. The FAO, which serves both the industrialised and the developing countries, acts as a neutral forum in which all the nations meet on an equal footing to negotiate agreements and discuss lines of conduct. It constitutes a source of knowledge and information; it helps the developing countries and the countries in the process of transition to modernise and improve agriculture, forestry and fishing and to ensure that everyone is adequately fed. Its headquarters moved from Washington to Rome in 1951. The organisation has 191 member states in addition to the members of the European Community. 

  • FSB, Financial Stability Board
    • Set up in 1999, the FSB is designed to promote financial stability at the international level, to improve the functioning of the world's markets, and to reduce systemic risk.  Its regular meetings are attended by representatives of governments, of central banks and national financial institution and market oversight authorities, of international financial institutions and international regulatory and oversight authorities, and of committees of experts from central banks.  FSB's headquarters are in Switzerland.