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The FAO Historical Archives are maintained by the Records and Archives Unit, AFSI (Administrative Services Division) established in 1957, responsible for establishing the methods, standards and procedures for the maintenance and the disposition of Organization's records and archives.
The FAO Historical Archives are composed of: - 2,000 linear meters of hard copy records (paper);
- More than 2,500 microfilm reels on 16-mm size, 24:1 reduction ratio (few records have been microfilmed on 35-mm format);
- 500,000 scanned documents, in compressed TIFF format (black & white), consisting of the most important or more frequently accessed documents of the paper historical archives. Over the next decade, funds permitting, the Organization intends to digitize the entire historical archives paper and microfilm collection.
- audio-visual materials and commemorative items.
The FAO Historical Archives preserve non-current records of Headquarters, Regional Offices and FAO Representations, and reflect the organization’s development and administrative history, its policies and major working programs and methods.
The organization's acts, proceedings, and agreements of significant legal, administrative or financial value are also preserved in the archives, as well as records of several predecessor bodies of FAO (e.g. the International Institute of Agriculture, IIA or the Centre International de Sylviculture, CIS), Organizations or UN Agencies, whose functions or assets have been transferred to FAO.
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