A national statistical information system for food and agriculture. CountrySTAT harmonizes and integrates data on food and agriculture coming from different sources. Through a core database, policy makers and researchers can group data across thematic areas - such as production, trade and consumption - in order to study relationships and processes.

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. The system offers decision-makers around the world a fast and... [read more]

FAO mediabase is the online digital photo archive of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations agency leading international efforts to defeat hunger. Our photographs document the people we serve, the problems they face, the global issues that touch their lives, and the ways in which our technical... [read more]

We define participation in development as a process of equitable and active involvement of all stakeholders in the formulation of development policies and strategies and in the analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development activities.

Newsletter: http://www.fao.org/Participation/Web%20Newsletter/No21/Newsletter21En.htm

FAO, as a multilingual organization dealing with hundreds of subjects, has created a TERM PORTAL to create, store, manage and maintain concepts, terms and definitions.    

The idea is to offer a container or one-stop-portal for searching all systems and glossaries.

Technical Divisions often need to create glossaries specific to... [read more]