WAICENT Fighting Hunger with Information

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its 180 Members highlight information as one of the priority areas in fighting hunger and achieving food security. As a result, FAO established the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) for agricultural information management and dissemination, in an effort to fight hunger with information. WAICENT is FAO's strategic programme for improving access to essential documents, statistics, maps and multimedia resources to millions of users around the globe.

WAICENT's vast information includes:

• Thousands of full-text publications and technical documents on agriculture, fisheries, nutrition and forestry, available through the Internet, on specific subjects such as trends in trade, country-specific information, food safety and deforestation.
• Codes of conduct, interactive tools for use at the national level, and early warning and disaster prevention systems.
• Data, including maps and charts, obtained through the FAO online statistical databases, containing over one million time-series records, covering international statistics in the area of agricultural production, trade indices, food supply, land and food aid.
• Thousands of other multimedia resources available on the FAO Web site.

Today, WAICENT is one of the world's most comprehensive sources of agricultural information, providing access to the accumulated knowledge and expertise of FAO, improving the capacities of decision-makers, professionals and the public-at-large to obtain and use information essential for achieving sustainable agriculture development and helping to combat hunger.

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