In November 2023, the IFADTERM collection migrated to the United Nations Terminology Database (https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/). The collection is therefore no longer maintained in the FAO Term Portal. For further information, please contact: [email protected]

We are pleased to announce that a User's Manual for the FAO Term Portal is now available. You can retrieve the English version from the Help tab or click here.

This thematic collection contains the FAO's structure and staff titles in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish (some records also contain Italian), plus the iRecruitment terms used in the vacancy announcements issued by FAO.

A multilingual listing of relevant terms and definitions associated with the phytosanitary systems worldwide has been developed to provide a harmonized internationally agreed vocabulary on implementation of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs).  

Due to the need to adapt our terminological database to the new FAO template, we have released a new version of the FAO Term Portal, with FAOTERM, our historical database, the Names of Countries and Territories database (NOCS), as well as the thematic glossaries developed with interested partners all on...

The idea of the new Term Portal is to offer a container or one-stop system for searching all terminology databases and glossaries. We include here the first terminology database (FAOTERM), the Names of Countries and Territories database  (NOCS), as well as the thematic glossaries jointly developed by the Meeting Programming...

This database consists of names of countries and territories, as well as adjectives of nationality, capital cities and currency units in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The designations used in this database follow or are based on UN practice.