FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System

The Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations and its 190 members highlight information as one of the priority areas in fighting hunger and achieving food security. The FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System is a pioneering information retrieval tool which groups the organization's vast archive of information on its global activities in agriculture and development in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country.

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 News

11 Jul 2008

FAO launches a project to upgrade its Country Profiles Mapping Information System

In May 2008, FAO approved a project that will provide an upgrade to the FAO Country Profiles Mapping Information System (FCPMIS) launched in 2002. The project aims to enhance users' access to country information on FAO's expertise and increase collaboration among FAO's technical divisions and decentralized offices as well as partners in other organizations.

FAO is involved in the development and dissemination of international standards and procedures for agricultural information management.   [more...]


19 May 2006

A link to FAO-GeoNetwork is now available on the country profiles site

Users can now access FAO-GeoNetwork on the FAO country profiles. FAO-GeoNetwork is a web based Geographic Data and Information Management System which enables easy access to local and distributed geospatial information catalogues and makes available data, graphics, documents (and any other content type) for immediate download. FAO-GeoNetwork holds approximately 5000 standardized metadata records for digital and paper maps, most of them at the global, continent and national level.   [more...]


21 Mar 2006

Statistics on Food Security are now available on the FAO Country Profiles site

16 Feb 2006

Now available – FAO Statistical Country Profiles

13 Feb 2006

Updated compendium of 2005 food and agriculture indicators by country now available on the country profiles site

21 Nov 2005

Now online updated list of low income food-deficit countries

 Highlights - October 2008
Briefing paper: Hunger on the rise Briefing paper: Hunger on the rise
Meeting Right to Food Forum
[1-3 October 2008]
Web site World Food Day
World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
[16 October 2008]
Fact sheet Cereal Supply/Demand Balances for Sub-Saharan Africa
Publication Estimated Cereal Import Requirements of LIFDCs


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