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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

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

Users can now access food security statistics with data on, for example;

  • food deprivation;

  • inequality in access to food and income;

  • diet composition;

  • child nutritional status; and

  • health and poverty.


  • To view statistics on Food Security, choose a country and then select 'Economic situation' or 'Agriculture sector'.


    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

    8 Jul 2005

    Country progress reports on achieving the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals now linked to country profiles

     Highlights
    SOFI 2006 SOFI 2006 - The State of Food Insecurity in the World
    Web site Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
    News story - Climate change will affect future food availability
    Adapting agriculture, forestry and fisheries policies and practices to climate variability


    - Can the forest products industry be part of a bio-solution to climate change?


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