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'''FAO Goodwill Ambassador''' be official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status den job description wey dem assign say ego goodwill ambassadors den advocate menners wey United Nations designate dem. FAO goodwill ambassadors be celebrity advocates give de Food den Agriculture Organization of de United Nations wey dey use dema talent den fame advocate give de organization.

De Goodwill Ambassador Programme of de Food den Agriculture Organization of de United Nations dey in place since 1999. De main purpose of de programme be make e increase public awareness den make e disseminate information for issues wey relate to food security den hunger top.

FAO dey encourage ein goodwill ambassadors make dem actively use dema talents den influence, den make dem commit dema bodies personally den professionally, make dem assist de organization make dem dey raise public awareness of de urgent need make dem eradicate hunger, malnutrition den food insecurity, wey make dem dey achieve de 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/3/a1513e/a1513e00.htm "The Goodwill Ambassadors of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Retrieved 2021-03-02.</ref>

Past FAO ambassadors dey include Celine Dion, Carl Lewis, Evo Morales, Youssou N'Dour den Susan Sarandon.

== Types of FAO Goodwill Ambassadors ==
FAO get three types of Goodwill Ambassadors:

* De FAO Global Goodwill Ambassador, wey be worldwide known celebrities from de worlds of arts, sports, literature, sciences den oda fields of public importance.
* De FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador, wey be high-level personalities usually from de field of research anaa science, wey dem excel for area insyd relevant to de one for wich dem cam turn special Ambassadors.
* De FAO National Goodwill Ambassador, wey be personalities plus local appeal, de work of wich dem dey support mainly within de country of dema nomination.

== Current FAO Goodwill Ambassadors ==
Current goodwill ambassadors, den de year na dem appoint dem:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Location
!References
!Notes
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|Her Majesty Queen Letizia of Spain
|Spain
|2015
|Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
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|His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho
|Lesotho
|2016
|Special Goodwill Ambassador for Nutrition
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|Darine El-Khatib
|Lebanon
|2017
|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for de Near East den North Africa
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|Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Ali of Jordan
|Jordan
|2016
|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for de Near East den North Africa
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|Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand
|Thailand
|2016
|Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Asia den de Pacific
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|Katsuhiro Nakamura
|Japan
|2017
|National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia den de Pacific
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|Hiroko Kuniya
|Japan
|2017
|National Goodwill Ambassador for Asia den de Pacific
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|Diarmuid Gavin
|Ireland
|2022
|National Goodwill Ambassador for Europe
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|Rodrigo Pacheco
|Ecuador
|2022
|National Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America den de Caribbean
|}

== Former FAO Goodwill Ambassadors ==
Former goodwill ambassadors, den de year na dem appoint dem:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name
!Location
!References
!Notes
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|Thomas Pesquet
|France
|2021<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210509175222/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1393472/icode/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1393472/icode/ the original] on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2021-04-12.</ref>
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|Miriam Makeba
|[[South Africa]]
|1999<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/makeba_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Dee Dee Bridgewater
|United States
|1999<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/bridgewater_en.htm < "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Gina Lollobrigida
|Italy
|1999<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/lollobrigida_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Rita Levi-Montalcini
|Italy
|1999<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/montalcini_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Gong Li
|Singapore
|2000<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/li_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Youssou N'Dour
|[[Senegal]]
|2000<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/nDour_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Gilberto Gil
|Brazil
|2001<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/gil_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Majida El Roumi
|Lebanon
|2001<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/alRoumi_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Albano Carrisi
|Italy
|2001<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/carrisi_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Mory Kanté
|[[Guinea]]
|2001<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/kante_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie
|Bahamas
|2002<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/ferguson_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Roberto Baggio
|Italy
|2002<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/baggio_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Massimo Ranieri
|Italy
|2002<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/ranieri_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Dionne Warwick
|United States
|2002<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/warwick_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Italian Singers’ Soccer Team
|Italy
|2002<ref>[http://www.fao.org/tempref/GI/Reserved/ambassadors/finalVersion/amb/TIS_SoccerTeam_en.htm "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Khaled
|[[Algeria]]
|2003<ref name=":0">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040203225736/http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/23719-en.html "FAO : Five more international celebrities named as FAO goodwill ambassadors"]. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/23719-en.html/ the original] on 2004-02-03.</ref>
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|Maná
|Mexico
|2003<ref name=":0" />
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|Noa
|Israel
|2003<ref name=":0" />
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|Justine Pasek
|Panama,  Poland
|2003<ref name=":0" />
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|Oumou Sangaré
|[[Mali]]
|2003<ref name=":0" />
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|Raúl
|Spain
|2004<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200124021809/http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2004/51279/index.html "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''.</ref>
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|Carla Fracci
|Italy
|2004<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233206/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-carlafracci/en/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-carlafracci/en/ the original] on 2009-11-10.</ref>
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|Ronan Keating
|Ireland
|2005<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091110232833/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ronankeating/en/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ronankeating/en/ the original] on 2009-11-10.</ref>
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|Beatrice Faumuina
|New Zealand
|2005<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233519/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-beatricefaumuina/en/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-beatricefaumuina/en/ the original] on 2009-11-10.</ref>
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|Chucho Valdés
|Cuba
|2006<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233548/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-chuchovaldes/en/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-chuchovaldes/en/ the original] on 2009-11-10.</ref>
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|María Gloria Penayo De Duarte
|Paraguay
|2006<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091110233316/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-mariagloriapenayo/en/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-mariagloriapenayo/en/ the original] on 2009-11-10.</ref>
|Extraordinary Ambassador
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|Suzanne Mubarak
|[[Egypt]]
|2008<ref>Warnock, Caroline (25 February 2020). [https://web.archive.org/web/20200310112859/https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/suzanne-mubarek-hosni-mubarek-wife/ "Suzanne Mubarak, Hosni Mubarek's Wife: 5 Fast Facts"]. ''Heavy.com''. Archived from [https://heavy.com/news/2020/02/suzanne-mubarek-hosni-mubarek-wife/ the original] on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.</ref>
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|-
|Carl Lewis
|United States
|2009<ref name=":1">[https://news.un.org/en/story/2009/09/312832-five-new-un-goodwill-ambassadors-named-help-combat-hunger "Five new UN Goodwill Ambassadors named to help combat hunger"]. 17 September 2009.</ref>
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|-
|Anggun
|Indonesia,  France
|2009<ref name=":1" />
|
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|Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
|Dominican Republic
|2009<ref name=":1" />
|
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|Pierre Cardin
|France
|2009<ref name=":1" />
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|Fanny Lu
|Colombia
|2009<ref name=":1" />
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|Raoul Bova
|Italy
|2010<ref name=":2">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210126214056/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/46432/icode/ "FAO - News Article: FAO appoints four new Goodwill Ambassadors"]. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/46432/icode/ the original] on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2017-02-10.</ref>
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|Susan Sarandon
|United States
|2010<ref name=":2" />
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|Celine Dion
|[[Canada]]
|2010<ref name=":2" />
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|Lea Salonga
|Philippines
|2010<ref name=":2" />
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|Patrick Vieira
|France
|2010<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180614200156/http://www.fao.org/news/story/pt/item/42341/icode/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/news/story/pt/item/42341/icode/ the original] on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-04-10.</ref>
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|Jeremy Irons
|United Kingdom
|2011<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-15344164/jeremy-irons-takes-on-un-world-food-ambassador-role "Irons accepts food ambassador role"]. ''BBC News''.</ref>
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|Evo Morales
|Bolivia
|2012<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200808071505/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/148887/icode/ "FAO Website"]. ''Food and Agriculture Organization''. Archived from [http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/148887/icode/ the original] on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2018-04-10.</ref>
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Quinoa
|-
|Prince Laurent of Belgium
|Belgium
|2014 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for Forests den de Environment
|-
|Leyla Aliyeva
|Azerbaijan
|2015 
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|Abdelouahab Zaid
|United Arab Emirates
|2015 
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|Bharrat Jagdeo
|Guyana
|2015 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for Forests den de Environment
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|Joyce Boye
|Canada
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
|-
|Kadambot Siddique
|India
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
|-
|Maggie Habib
|Egypt
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
|-
|Jenny Chandler
|United Kingdom
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
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|Patricia Juárez Arango
|Mexico
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
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|Elizabeth Mpofu
|[[Zimbabwe]]
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for de International Year of Pulses
|-
|Carlo Petrini
|Italy
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for Zero Hunger
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|Guadalupe Valdez
|Dominican Republic
|2016 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for Zero Hunger
|-
|Kanayo F. Nwanze
|[[Nigeria]]
|2017 
|Special Ambassador to de FAO for Zero Hunger
|}

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Food and Agriculture Organization]]
[[Category:Goodwill ambassador programmes]]
[[Category:United Nations goodwill ambassadors]]