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AN UNRIVALLED BODY OF EXPERTISE

The Investment Centre draws on FAO's extensive knowledge and experience in agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries, nutrition, rural development, commodities, trade, policy analysis, natural resources management and statistics.

It is comprised of some 80 professional staff with high levels of technical skill who deliver projects that tackle complex issues on time and on budget.

Staff members include agronomists, economists, and irrigation and drainage engineers, together with professionals trained in rural sociology, the environment, rural finance, agribusiness, marketing, forestry and livestock.

Global reach

Teams and services are grouped by geographical area:

Europe, Near East, North Africa and Central Asia
Asia and the Pacific
West and Central Africa
Southern and Eastern Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean

In addition, the Investment Centre annually engages more than 400 specialized consultants to complement its mission teams.

A credit scheme is explained to villagers in Bangladesh. The Investment Centre’s rural credit specialists and agricultural economists help design projects to improve the supply of rural credit, and work regularly on this issue with FAO’s Rural Finance Group.

Consultants

If you are interested in working with the Investment Centre, and have a minimum of five years of professional and international experience in the pertinent disciplines, please submit your CV, together with a completed FAO Personal History Form to Investment-Centre@fao.org.