Azerbaijan has been a member of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) since 1995. The office of the organization has been operating in the country since 2007.
The main goal of the FAO in Azerbaijan is to ensure the country's food security, reduce dependence on imports of agricultural products, stimulate exports, as well as more efficient use of natural resources.
Programma includes both agriculture, food security, fisheries and the sustainable use of natural resources. In addition, FAO will continue to work on projects launched in previous years in these areas.
Summing up the results of the five-year projects of the current Partnership Program, which ends in 2020, that within the framework of this program, most of the goals were achieved.
In November 2016, the FAO and the government of Azerbaijan signed the Partnership Program for 2016-2020.