ESTELLA workshop | ARYA online training: From satellite to crop yield forecasts – hands on

09/11/2026 - 10/11/2026

A two-day online course: build the full ARYA satellite-based yield forecasting pipeline from scratch, in Python, guided by the University of Valencia team that created it.

Understanding contract farming: Lessons and knowledge-sharing for inclusive agribusiness and value chain development

28/09/2026

Contract farming remains a widely used institutional arrangement—particularly in the private sector—for linking smallholder producers with agribusiness firms through pre-agreed terms governing production, quality, delivery, services and marketing. 

Webinar on the living income approach

28/09/2026

The Living Income concept is increasingly used as a practical and measurable target for improving smallholder livelihoods in global agricultural value chains. 

Launch of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 – Understanding and addressing the high cost of a healthy diet

Hybrid Event, 21/07/2026

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has the pleasure to inform its Members that the launch of the 2026 edition of the flagship report “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World” will be held on 21 July 2026 during a special event at the

GeoField 2026 Convening

Hybrid Event, 19/06/2026

A hands-on training session designed for economists to explore practical approaches to geospatial data visualization.

Workshop on leveraging evidence for effective anticipatory action

Hybrid Event, 20/04/2026 - 21/04/2026

A two-day workshop on leveraging evidence for effective anticipatory action will be held at FAO headquarters in Rome and online from 20–21 April 2026.

FAO Statistics supports Kenya on the operational use of Earth Observation for agriculture

09/02/2026 - 13/02/2026

FAO and the ESA WorldCereal consortium, in partnership with UNECA and the European Space Agency (ESA), jointly delivered a national training in Nairobi on the operational use of Earth Observation for agriculture – with a clear objective: strengthening the evidence base that supports more resilient, inclusive and sustainable agrifood systems.

The workshop brought together key Kenyan in...

Launch of The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 – Addressing land degradation across landholding scales

Hybrid Event, 03/11/2025

The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report, “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”, underscores the critical role of land in global agrifood systems. It highlights mounting pressures from land degradation, deforestation, and unsustainable management and presents new evidence on how land degradation increasingly threatens agricultural productivity and ...