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6/10/2009-- Volunteer in the FAO Country Profiles team

Louis Ickx, from the École Supérieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest (Angers, France), spent six weeks at FAO during the summer. His background is in electronics and informatics. Volunteering for the FAO Country profiles team made him see how it can serve a humanitarian mandate.
A bit of a cosmopolitan traveller himself, Louis argues that his experience gave him a unique perspective. Watch the video (803 MB) and find out why!

8/9/2009-- Discover the data sources that make up the FAO Country Profiles site

10/8/2009-- Learn about the updated geopolitical ontology and the new module maker service

15/6/2009-- Now online updated list of low income food-deficit countries

Highlights

World Summit on Food Security [Rome, 16-18 Nov 2009]

XIII World Forestry Congress 2009 [18-23 Oct 2009]
Videos

Hunger at a glance

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2009

Quick links


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The Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations and its 192 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. [more...]

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To find out Top Commodities production by country, select a country and when next page appears click on 'Agriculture sector'.