FAO Library provides staff, visiting researchers, and representatives from member countries with research support and information services on food security topics in support of the basic human right to adequate food. The library is also the custodian of a vast physical collection of 1.5 million volumes covering over 500 years of documentary heritage of agricultural knowledge. This includes the Institutional Memory of FAO, the David Lubin Archive, the original collections of the International Institute of Agriculture, the Centre International de Sylviculture, and a collection of 400 rare books and incunabula dating back to the 15th century.

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