Data for measuring and monitoring food insecurity and vulnerability is gathered to better understand the issues. It is used to support appropriately targeted hunger-reduction interventions.

Rural Income Generating Activities
The Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) project aims at promoting the understanding of the role of economic activities by rural households for poverty reduction and development through an innnovative database on sources of income and research papers investigating key policy research issues based on the RIGA data.

Other resources

Key Indicator Data System (KIDS)

FAOSTAT
Free and easy access to data for 245 countries and 35 regional areas from 1961 through the most recent year available. Enhanced features include browsing and analysis of data, an advanced interactive data download, and enhanced data exchange through web services.