FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

Early efforts at codifying the Acts of Congress were undertaken by private publishers ; these were useful shortcuts for research purposes, but had no official status.

Early accounts of martyrs include Christian witnesses making great efforts to obtain the remains of the martyrs and the Romans sometimes trying to prevent this.

Early efforts in analysing the stability included both theoretical analysis and practical measurements.

Early efforts to mimic snow involved laying extruded plastic tiles with upward spikes in an attempt to provide grip.

Early efforts to halt the gradual deterioration of downtown began with the saving and restoration of the Springer Opera House in 1965.

Early efforts in the USA involved the hybridization of the Siberian elm U. pumila with American red elm U. rubra to produce resistant trees.

Early research efforts toward transport layer security included the Secure Network Programming ( SNP ) application programming interface ( API ), which in 1993 explored the approach of having a secure transport layer API closely resembling Berkeley sockets, to facilitate retrofitting preexisting network applications with security measures.

Early goals of ASPCA focused on efforts for horses and livestock, since at the time they were used for a number of activities.

" Early episodes frequently detailed the efforts of the United States government to secure Airwolf from Hawke who is officially charged with having stolen it.

Early efforts of publishing the Bible in Romanian started with the 1582 printing in the small town of Orăştie of the so-called Palia de la Orăştie-a translation of the first books of the Old Testament-by Deacon Şerban ( a son of the above-mentioned Deacon Coresi ) and Marien Diacul ( Marien the Scribe ).

Early efforts by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory produced the XCJ jamming transmitter installed aboard the destroyer escorts USS Herbert C. Jones and Frederick C. Davis in late September 1943, too late for Salerno.

Early jamming efforts by the United States Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) produced the XCJ jamming transmitter installed aboard the destroyer escorts USS Herbert C. Jones and Frederick C. Davis in late September 1943.

Early efforts to remote control substations used dedicated communication wires, often run along side power circuits.

Early British efforts to create a boundary in this sector were triggered by their discovery in the mid-19th century that Tawang, an important trading town, was Tibetan territory.

Early in 1818, both men met to discuss better coordination of their efforts.

Early efforts at fixed-wing aircraft design succeeded in generating sufficient lift to get the aircraft off the ground, but once aloft, the aircraft proved uncontrollable, often with disastrous results.

Early efforts at agriculture were fraught and supplies from overseas were few and far between.

Early in the mission's planning there was suggestion of combining efforts with the Russian space agency and including Zond probes to study the Plutonian atmosphere.

Early stocking efforts in the United States used fish taken from Scotland and Germany.

Early post-invasion efforts to keep alive the spirit of the Prague Spring were quashed through a series of subversion trials in 1972 that led to jail sentences ranging from nine months to six and one-half years for the opposition leaders.

Early Comecon efforts to facilitate trade among members concentrated on development of uniform technical, legal, and statistical standards and on encouragement of long-term trade agreements.

Early efforts to identify the homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language speakers focused on the presence or absence of geographical indicator words.

Early in 1940, Greiser is on record challenging Hermann Göring over efforts to delay the expulsion of Łódź Jews to Poland.

Early dirigible developments included machine-powered propulsion ( Henri Giffard, 1852 ), rigid frames ( David Schwarz, 1896 ), and improved speed and maneuverability ( Alberto Santos-Dumont, 1901 )

Early video chipsets featuring AGP support included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX / 2.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

Early street railways on Broadway included the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad's Broadway and University Place Line ( 1864?

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

Early copies included a bonus CD of live material.

Early forms of cartography of India included the locations of the Pole star and other constellations of use.

Early labels, most now-defunct, included Blonde Vinyl, Frontline, Exit, and Refuge.

Early researchers of clairvoyance included William Gregory ( chemist ), Gustav Pagenstecher, and Rudolf Tischner.

Early bassists for the group included Ron Crotty, Bob Bates, and Bob's brother Norman Bates ; Lloyd Davis and Joe Dodge held the drum chair.

Early projects in this vein included Everything2 and Open Site.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Early American grind practitioners included Terrorizer and Assück.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

Early uses for sulphuric acid included pickling ( removing rust ) iron and steel, and for bleaching cloth.

Early pesticide development included Gramoxone ( 1962, a herbicide ), the insecticides pirimiphos-methyl in 1967 and pirimicarb in 1970, brodifacoum ( a rodenticide ) was developed in 1974 ; in the late 1970s, ICI was involved in the early development of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides such as lambda-cyhalothrin.

Early makers of jazz guitars included Gibson, Epiphone, D ' Angelico and Stromberg.

Early personal computers such as the Apple II or IBM PC included only this minimal peripheral support on the motherboard.

Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

Early commercial products included Gemstone ( Servio Logic, name changed to GemStone Systems ), Gbase ( Graphael ), and Vbase ( Ontologic ).

Early Ontario punk bands included The Diodes, The Viletones, The Battered Wives, The Demics, Forgotten Rebels, Teenage Head, The Poles, and The Ugly.