Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded on the 16th of October 1945 in Quebec City, Canada. Its first conference session opened the same day at the Château Frontenac hotel and ran until the 1st of November 1945.
The FAO's Latin motto fiat panis translates to "let there be bread". It expresses the organization's core mission of defeating hunger and improving global food security.
Sir John Boyd Orr served as the first Director-General of the FAO from October 1945 through April 1948. His work on ending world hunger earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949.
As of the 1st of May 2020, the FAO has 194 member nations and one member organization, the European Union, for a total of 195 members. The only UN member state that is not a member of the FAO is Liechtenstein.
The FAO's total planned Regular Programme budget for 2018-2019 was 1,005.6 million US dollars. Voluntary contributions from members and partners were projected to reach approximately 1.6 billion US dollars in 2016-2017.
The 1996 World Food Summit, attended by 112 heads or deputy heads of state and government, concluded with the signing of the Rome Declaration. The declaration established the goal of halving the number of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Alongside the official summit, 1,200 civil society organizations from 80 countries participated in a parallel NGO forum.