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Community Organizations United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Acronym
ECOSOC
United Nations Agency

Location

New York
United States
Working languages
inglés
Affiliated Organization
UN
United Nations Agency

United Nations


The United Nation

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; French: Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, CESNU) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organisation, specifically in regards to the 15 specialised agencies, the eight functional commissions and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

The Council serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues and formulating policy recommendations addressed to member states and the United Nations system. A number of non-governmental organisations have been granted consultative status to the Council to participate in the work of the United Nations.

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Transnational Corporations in the Banana Industry in Cameroon

Reports & Research
Agosto, 1984
Cameroon

Prior to tho advent of colonialism, the banana industry in Cameroon was essentially

a traditional cottage industry producing for domestic consumption. When the country become a German colony towards the end of the nineteenth century, tho industry "began to develop into what is today, an export oriented activity based on colonial plantations

Indicators for agricultural development

Conference Papers & Reports
Enero, 1984
Africa

This paper concentrates more on the indicators that deal more or less directly with the increase of agricultural productivity and production. There is the fundamental constraint then that because of the imprecise nature of some of the factors to be measured, the indicators themselves may not in fact be measuring what they were meant to measure. However, this does not relieve the user of constructor of indicators from the obligation to offer a hypothesis as a start and then work to the final “theorem” for that is what all indicators at the start are hypothesis.

Summary report of main activities of the FAO/ECA advisory group on Food and Agricultural Industries Development in Africa (AGFI) 1980-81

Reports & Research
Octubre, 1981
Africa

With the goal of stimulating the production and utilisation of indigenous cereals, rootss tubers and legumes in particular sorghum in composite flours for bakery products in traditional, new and modified food products it will have the following objectives^

a) ensure better understanding of the importance and potential

for industrial application of sorghums etc. and the technologies

available for milling and baking coarse grains'

b) ascertain the status and plans of existing 'national composite

flour programmes or the possibilities of establishing such

Transformation et utilisation des matières premières minérales dans les pays Africains

Conference Papers & Reports
Enero, 1981
Africa

Le gouvernement d’un pays africain peut adopter une politique de promotion de la transformation en aval de façon à augmenter sa part dans la capacité mondiale de transformation en vue d'accroitre les recettes d’exportation. Pour atteindre ces objectifs il peut décider de créer de nouvelles capacités de production ou de développer la capacité de transformation en aval des matières premières produites dans le pays.