Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: FAO Department: Registered Files, United Nations Food and Health Programmes (FAO Series)

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Details of OD 64
Reference: OD 64
Title: Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: FAO Department: Registered Files, United Nations Food and Health Programmes (FAO Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the FAO Department dealing with the development of UK aid policy in the fields with which the department was concerned.
Date: 1969-1978
Related material:

For earlier records on these subjects see OD 25
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FAO file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Overseas Development, FAO Department, 1970-1970

Ministry of Overseas Development, FAO Department, 1974-1979

Overseas Development Administration, FAO Department, 1970-1974
Physical description: 117 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: Series ran 1970-1979
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The FAO Department handled UK policy towards, and relations with, the various agencies of the United Nations which dealt with matters of food supply and nutrition, principally the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Food Programme and UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) and the related health agencies.

The department also dealt with general questions of renewable natural resources, food and fertiliser aid, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and, following the UK's accession to the European Communities, EEC relations with the above organisations. FAO Department was renamed United Nations Department B in 1979.

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