News
Big campaign needed to combat locust upsurge in East Africa
FAO warns that unprecedented swarms threaten food security across the entire subregion and calls for funding for an international response...
Story
A reading list for the new year
Brush up with FAO publications on biodiversity, food safety, youth engagement and an array of other crucial themes.
Website
Finance Committee, 6-7 February 2020
The Finance Committee's 179th Session runs from 6-7 February 2020. See the agenda to find out more.
News
Making trade work for global food security
FAO Director-General, addressing ministers in Berlin emphasizes the need for efficiency gains and finding the right balance between agriculture and...
Highlights
In focus
Key facts on locusts
Learn more about FAO’s efforts to prevent invasions of an ancient pest that can travel fast and eat crops equal to their own weight every day.
Video
Make not wasting a way of life
Reducing food waste saves natural resources, lowers our carbon footprint, saves money and means less trash in general.
Podcast
Blue innovators: Plastic made from fish
Meet Lucy Hughes, the inventor of a bioplastic made from fish waste.
Publication
FAO’s Early Warning Early Action Report
12 countries face high food security risks in early 2020, while the Desert Locust and African Swine Fever outbreaks pose further threats.
Director-General
From the DG
Agriculture ministers meeting in Berlin agree to establish FAO-designed International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture
Director-General hails agreement to establish the international body to promote digital technologies for a more prosperous world with accessible, affordable and healthy food for all.
Data
FAOSTAT
Food and agriculture data
SDG Indicators
FAO’s Sustainable Development Goals Indicators Portal
AMIS
Agricultural Market Information System
FAM
Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalogue
FishStat
Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics
AQUASTAT
FAO's Global Information System on Water and Agriculture
FPMA
Food Price Monitoring and Analysis
DAD-IS
Domestic Animal Diversity Information System
WIEWS
World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
FAO/WHO GIFT
FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool
AIDmonitor
Official Development Assistance
INFOODS
International Network of Food Data Systems
Food Loss and Waste Database
Take an in-depth look at what food is being lost and wasted, and where
GLRD
Gender and Land Rights Database
RuLIS
Rural Livelihoods Information System
FRA
Global Forest Resources Assessments
Publications
FAO-Japan: A growing partnership towards sustainable development
Learn how Japan's financial contributions, expertise and human capital support FAO’s work on a broad range of topics.
Digital Agriculture
Innovating for our future of food and agriculture
Examples of how rural smallholders can scale up successful techniques in areas such as forecasting, pest control, farm credit and new marketable crops, underscoring how...
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