Did you know that only 8 percent of the global population live more than one hour away from an urban centre? This number can be far higher at the country level – well beyond 50 percent in countries like Madagascar, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe. 

On June 3, over 100 participants from a...

On a recent mission to Guatemala, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reinforced its commitment to strengthening the country’s agrifood systems through the FAO Globa...

The Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (THINK-PA) hosted an engaging webinar titled Beyond the data gap: Unlocking insights to identify and analyse hard-to-survey rural and vulnerable populations. The event brought together leading experts to examine challenges and innovations in data colle...

FAO’s Agrifood Economics and Policy team has just returned from Cameroon, where it delivered capacity-building training on climate action and greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting using the Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT) for the 

On Friday 22 November 2024 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, an important validation workshop was held to present the preliminary findings from a survey on the income of cocoa producers to key stakeholders in the cocoa sector. The session took place as part of the