FAO - Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy

FAO - Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy.

HLTF - The UN High Level Task Force on Global Food Security (HLTF) is a coordination mechanism bringing together 23 international entities chaired by the UN Secretary General with the Director General of FAO as Vice Chair. Its remit is to ensure coherence and coordination of support provided by the international system to countries and regions, and to global initiatives. The strategy for this support is based on a comprehensive twin-track approach to food and nutrition security.

IFAD - The International Fund for Agricultural Development works with poor rural people to enable them to grow and sell more food, increase their incomes and determine the direction of their own lives. Since 1978, IFAD has invested about US$13.2 billion in grants and low-interest loans to developing countries through projects empowering about 400 million people to break out of poverty, thereby helping to create vibrant rural communities. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized UN agency based in Rome.

IFPRI - The International Food Policy Research Institute seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI’s vision is a world free of Hunger and malnutrition and IFPRI’s mission is to provide policy solutions that reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.

IGC - The International Grains Council, established by the Grains Trade Convention, 1995 (GTC), seeks to further international cooperation in grains trade, to promote expansion, openness and fairness in the grains sector and to contribute to grain market stability and to enhance world food security. These objectives are sought by improving market transparency through information-sharing, analysis and consultation on grain market and policy developments.

OECD - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. It provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems, it measures, analyses, and compares policy performance, and sets international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.

UNCTAD is the United Nations focal point for trade and development, and for interrelated issued in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development. UNCTAD's objective is to assist developing countries, especially the least developed countries, and countries with economies in transition, to integrate beneficially into the global economy. UNCTAD also seeks to help the international community promote a global partnership for development, increase coherence in global economic policymaking, and assure development gains for all from trade.

World Bank - Reduction of global poverty is the World Bank's challenge. The Bank focuses on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals that call for the elimination of poverty and sustained development. The Bank's mission is to help developing countries and their people reach these goals by working with our partners to alleviate poverty. The Bank addresses global challenges in ways that advance an inclusive and sustainable globalization that overcome poverty, enhance growth with care of the environment, and create individual opportunity and hope.

WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations. The five Strategic Objectives that govern WFP activities are to provide food assistance to: save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies; prevent acute hunger and invest in disaster preparedness and mitigation measures; restore and rebuild lives and livelihoods in post conflict, post-disaster or transition situations; reduce chronic hunger and under-nutrition; strengthen the capacities of countries to reduce hunger, including through hand-over strategies and local purchase.

WTO - The World Trade Organization deals with the global rules of trade between nations. The WTO is member-driven organization — all decisions are made by the member governments, and the rules are the outcome of negotiations among Members. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.