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Regional Conference
The FAO Regional Conference for Africa is held once every two years, in the years in which the FAO General Conference does not meet in regular session. The attendance of the Regional Conference is usually, at Ministers of Agriculture level. Observers from countries outside the Region, international, regional and Arab Organizations, are also invited to the Conference.
The functions of the Regional Conference are to hold consultations at a high level, to indicate the special problems of the Region and the priority areas which should be taken into account in preparing the Programme of Work and Budget for the next biennium, as well as in relation to longer term programme objectives of the Organization to the needs of the Region; to undertake consultations on the means by which the countries of the Region can solve their own problems through the use of their own resources; and on the volume and nature of the external aid required to implement their food and agricultural development plans.
The Regional Conference may make recommendations to Member Nations in the Region, the Conference, the Council, the Director-General and, through the Director General, to the United Nations Regional Economic and Social Commission for Africa
The Regional Conference has held, until now, twenty-two sessions.
Date and Place of FAO
Regional Conferences for Africa
Session | Place | Date
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First | Lagos,
Nigeria | 3 - 12 November 1960
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Second
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Tunis,
Tunisia | 1 - 10 November 1962
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Third
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Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia | 3 - 15 September 1964
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Fourth
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Abidjan,
Côte d'Ivoire | 9 - 19 November 1966
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Fifth
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Kampala,
Uganda | 18 - 29 November 1968
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Sixth
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Algiers,
Algeria | 17 September - 3 October 1970
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Seventh
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Libreville,
Gabon | 14 - 30 September 1972
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Eighth
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Rose
Hill, Mauritius | 1 - 17 August 1974
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Ninth
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Freetown,
Sierra Leone | 2 - 12 November 1976
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Tenth
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Arusha,
Tanzania | 18 - 28 September 1978
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Eleventh
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Algiers,
Algeria | 22 September - 2 October 1982
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Twelfth
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Algiers,
Algeria | 22 September - 2 October 1982
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Thirteenth
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Harare,
Zimbabwe | 16 - 25 July 1984
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Fourteenth
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Yamoussoukro,
Côte d'Ivoire | 2 - 11 September 1986
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Fifteenth
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Moka,
Mauritius | 26 April - 4 May 1988
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Sixteenth
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Marrakech,
Morocco | 11 - 15 June 1990
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Seventeenth
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Accra,
Ghana | 20 - 24 July 1992
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Eighteenth
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IGaborone,
Botswana | 24 - 28 October 1994
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Nineteenth
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Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso | 16 - 20 April 1996
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Twentieth
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Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia | 16 - 20 February 1998
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Twenty-first
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Yaoundé, Cameroon | 21 - 25 February 2000
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Twenty-second
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Cairo,
Egypt
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4 - 8 February 2002
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Twenty-third
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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1 - 5 March 2004 |
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