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Boosting mitigation through sustainable agrifood systems: part of the solution to climate change
06/04/2022
Agricultural production statistics (2000–2020)
01/04/2022

FAOSTAT's agricultural production domain covers data on crops and livestock commodities as well as harvested areas, yields, and live and slaughtered animal numbers for 199 countries. FAO's Statistics Division recently released data up to 2020.  For each time series, data are analysed...

Temperature change statistics 1961–2021 (Global, regional and country trends)
01/04/2022

The FAOSTAT Temperature Change domain disseminates statistics of land surface air temperature change by country, with annual updates. The current dissemination covers the period 1961–2021. Statistics are available for monthly...

Global capture production (1950–2020)
28/03/2022

New FishStat data release

FAO/INTAKE Global report on the state of dietary data
16/03/2022
Using small area estimation for data disaggregation of SDG indicators
14/03/2022
A case study based on SDG Indicator 5.a.1
The importance of Ukraine and the Russian Federation for global agricultural markets and the risks associated with the current conflict
11/03/2022
Classification of forest products 2022
10/03/2022
This statistical classification system for forest products enables the collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of high-quality global data on forest products, including production, trade, and production capacity.
Credit to agriculture. Global and regional trends (2012–2020)
09/03/2022
New FAOSTAT data release
Accelerating support on SDG monitoring at country level
08/03/2022
New FAO Toolkit
FAO at the 53rd Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
25/02/2022
The 53rd UN Statistical Commission will take place virtually from 28 February-4 March 2022. The annual Commission provides an opportunity for FAO to inform the wider statistical community of the progress it has made over the past year and what lies ahead.
Foreign direct investment flows to agriculture (2010–2019)
25/02/2022
New FAOSTAT data release
An indirect estimation approach for disaggregating SDG indicators using survey data
21/02/2022
Case study based on SDG Indicator 2.1.2 "Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale"
Employment indicators 2000–2019 (Global and regional trends)
24/01/2022

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agriculture and rural areas. The data provides information on the status in employment, divisions of agriculture and hours worked of the people employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing and in rural are...

Government expenditures in agriculture 2001–2020 (Global and regional trends)
24/01/2022
New FAOSTAT data release
Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index
24/01/2022
The report, jointly developed by FAO and the Oxford Poverty and Rural Development Initiative (OPHI), articulates a conceptual framework for measuring multidimensional poverty in rural areas, and develops a rural Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). 
What do you want to know?
18/01/2022
FAO’s new open data policy makes fact-finding and information-sharing easier
Number of hungry in Asia-Pacific swells by more than 50 million since the arrival of COVID-19
07/01/2022
According to the 2021 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition by FAO and UNICEF
Though still low in Europe and Central Asia, hunger rates worsened by pandemic impacts
07/01/2022
FAO releases new data and analysis on the region’s hunger and malnutrition situation in a shorter, more compact format
Hunger in the Arab region continues to worsen
07/01/2022
New report calls for radical changes to the Arab region’s agrifood systems to deliver food security and nutrition for all