From the field

A new FAO reporting process will enable countries to update key forest data more frequently, strengthening the information needed to guide climate, biodiversity and sustainable forest management policies across Latin America.

$9.5 million for FAO’s SEPAL to strengthen forest data and unlock climate finance

The report, produced by INEI with technical assistance from FAO, incorporates the FIES methodology and reveals that moderate or severe food insecurity affected 30.5% of the Peruvian population in 2025.

South Sudan has taken a significant step toward strengthening its national agricultural statistics system with the successful completion of an FAO technical support mission conducted from 20 April to 1 May 2026 in Juba. Implemented under the TCP/SSD/4001 project, the mission supported the Government of South Sudan in advancing preparations for the country’s first-ever Census of Agriculture- a critical milestone for evidence‑based agricultural planning, food security monitoring, and rural development.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is strengthening countries’ capacity to monitor and report on primary forests through a regional workshop taking place this week in Thailand, bringing together experts from across Southeast Asia and the Pacific to improve the quality, consistency, and comparability of data on primary forest extent and trends including the use of national forest inventories, geospatial data, and satellite imagery for their mapping.

Without reliable, complete and up‑to‑date National Agriculture Census framework, strengthening agrifood systems transformation risk being guided by partial signals rather than a full national picture. Recognizing this, the Government of Zimbabwe, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is accelerating preparations for the first National Agricultural Census.

The Government of Samoa and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are integrating Earth Observation and geospatial technologies into national agricultural data systems to improve resilience and support evidence-based policymaking.

Agriculture remains the backbone of Rwanda’s Economy and the foundation of rural livelihoods. As the country is on the trajectory towards the vision 2050 ambition of becoming a high-income and climate-resilient nation, the sector continues to play a central role in food and nutrition security, employment, and broad-based social-economic development.

Papua New Guinea has reached a significant milestone in improving forest data transparency and governance with the publication of its national forest inventory (NFI) in the Food and Agriculture Microdata (...

In an exclusive AgroSpectrum interview, Jairo Castano of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations explains how the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2030 will modernize agricultural censuses, strengthen data-driven policymaking, and support progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.