This paper has tried to present an assortment of some of the many activities taking place to support the goals put forward by the World Food Summit and the Millennium Declaration. The WAICENT framework is aimed at facilitating the search for and access to FAO's collection of information and to establish and implement more effective policies and programmes aimed at food security and sustainable agricultural production. It aims to benefit the Member Nations by providing timely access to vast multilingual repositories of information on food and agriculture. FAO’s work on development of standards and guidelines for agricultural information management is aimed at improving the efficiency of FAO’s own information management systems as well as those in use in the international community. The development of the Information Management Clearinghouse is meant to ensure wide-scale participation in the development and adoption of those standards. In FAO, participation can be ensured by involving the key stakeholders represented in the WAICENT Committee and Advisory Group, respectively the policy-making and technical advice bodies of the WAICENT Framework.
