Training and events
21/ 9
2020
23/9
2020
Awareness Raising/Training Workshop on SDG Indicators under FAO Custodianship (Equatorial Guinea)
Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), 21/09/2020 - 23/09/2020
On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 aspirational objectives to guide actions of governments, international agencies, civil society and other institutions over the next 15 years (2016-2030). The SDGs aim at ending poverty and hunger while restoring and sustainably managing natural resources, integratin...
15/ 9
2020
Report's launch: "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020”
Roma (Italy), Hybrid Event, 15/09/2020
FAO's report “Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators” offers detailed analysis and trends on 22 indicators under its custodianship across 6 SDGs (2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15). Available in a digital format, this year’s edition has also bee...
8/ 9
2020
15/10
2020
Virtual Training on SDG Indicator 2.4.1. “Proportion of Agricultural Area under Productive and Sustainable Agriculture”
Virtual Event, 08/09/2020 - 15/10/2020
13/ 7
2020
Report's launch: SOFI 2020
Roma (Italy), Hybrid Event, 13/07/2020
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) report presents the most recent and authoritative estimates of the extent of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition around the world. This year, the report includes a special focus on transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets. It analyses the cost and affordability of healthy diet...
11/ 5
2020
Information Seminar for Permanent Representatives "Challenges and opportunities for reporting on SDG indicators"
Roma (Italy), 11/05/2020
The Office of Chief Statistician organized a Seminar on Statistics to provide Members with the first comprehensive briefing on FAO’s work on the 21 SDG indicators under its custodianship, since the last Seminar of its kind that took place in March 2017.
The Seminar aimed to bring together Permanent Representatives in order to:
- Receive an update on FAO’s work on SDG indic...
25/ 3
2020
Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition: Food post-harvest losses
(Italy), 25/03/2020
This series of technical webinars, organized by Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France), UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific), and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), was an opportunity to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models....
16/ 12
2019
Statistical Capacity Assessment and Capacity Development Programmes for the FAO-SDG indicators
Roma (Italy), 16/12/2019
Organized by the Office of the Chief Statistician (OCS) and the Statistics Technical Network, this webinar discussed the results of the Statistical Capacity Assessment for the FAO-SDG indicators, together with OCS’s capacity development strategy. The event aimed to assist FAO-HQ and decentralized offices in designing targeted interventions and mobilizing resources to support countries in col...
1/ 12
2019
5/12
2019
Introduction to the 2030 Agenda: Experiences and lessons learned on integration and implementation
Muscat (Oman), 01/12/2019 - 05/12/2019
The goal of this workshop organized by FAO was to bring together technical experts and statisticians to help with the methodology work for SDG Indicator 2.4.1 "Sustainable agriculture".
This indicator measures progress in achieving more productive and sustainable agriculture. It is made up of relevant sub-indicators that will provide governments with strategic information for evidence ...
29/ 11
2019
Resource Partners Consultation Meeting
Roma (Italy), 29/11/2019
On Friday, 29 November 2019, the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) held its second Resource Partner Consultation meeting of the year at FAO Headquarters in Rome.
19/ 11
2019
21/11
2019
Regional Workshop on Data Disaggregation for SDG Indicators
19/11/2019 - 21/11/2019
The workshop built on the work of the Inter-agency and expert group on SDG indicators, which focuses on ensuring that the Global Indicator Framework adequately incorporates data disaggregation.
The goal of this workshop was to strengthen national statistical offices' capacity to meet the most vulnerable's data and indicator needs by facilitating the exchange of good pra...