Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23647
Notes:
In the online book: E. Gelb and A. Offer (eds.), ICTin agriculture: perspectives of technological innovation. European Federation for Information Technologies in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA). 12 pages., By the 15-year coordinator of the International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS), created in 1974 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Santiago, Chile: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives.
In June 1951, the Commission established the ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico City, which serves the needs of the Central American subregion, and in December 1966, the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean was founded in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, ECLAC maintains country offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogotá, as well as a liaison office in Washington, D.C.
