Resources
FAO develops methodological guidelines and handbooks, technical documents and communication and outreach material related to food and agriculture statistics. FAO is the custodian of international and regional meetings organized regularly to discuss the development of food and agricultural statistics.
Inorganic fertilizers 1961-2018. FAOSTAT analytical brief 13
10/09/2020
FAOSTAT provides statistics at country, regional and global levels on the production, trade and agricultural use of inorganic fertilizers. This brief provides a summary of...
Call for a united front as global health takes a stake in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit
10/09/2020
Geneva, 9 September 2021 Food systems are interconnected with regards to global challenges such as hunger, climate change, poverty, and inequality. The response from food systems...
Call for a united front as global health takes a stake in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit
10/09/2020
Geneva, 9 September 2021 Food systems are interconnected with regards to global challenges such as hunger, climate change, poverty, and inequality. The response from food systems...
FAOSTAT: the world's largest database of food and agriculture statistics
08/09/2020
FAOSTAT is the world’s largest database of food and agriculture statistics, with free access to data for 245 countries and territories from 1961 to the...
FAO releases the Big Data tool on food chains under the COVID-19 pandemic
07/09/2020
The platform provides: real-time facts and information on the pandemic's impact on food supply chains, from production to consumption; countries' policy responses to mitigate the...
Forest land emissions and removals. Global, regional and country trends 1990–2020. FAOSTAT analytical brief 12
21/07/2020
This analysis focuses on new trends in forest emissions in terms of deforestation, carbon storage on remianing forest land, and overall net impact of forests...
Methodological note on new estimates of the prevalence of undernourishment in China. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 20-18
10/07/2020
This paper presents new estimates of the extent of food consumption inequality in mainland China and discusses their implications for the estimated prevalence ofundernourishment (PoU)....
Pesticides trade. Global, regional and country trends 1990–2018. FAOSTAT analytical brief 11
11/06/2020
This analysis focuses on international trade flows of pesticides for the period 1990–2018 and in particular of total pesticides, for which both monetary and physical...
Employment indicators. FAOSTAT analytical brief 10
09/06/2020
The FAOSTAT Employment indicators module contains data on:- Agriculture value added per worker;- Employment in agriculture (absolute numbers and shares, by sex);- Share of Employees...
Development flows to agriculture. FAOSTAT analytical brief 9
01/06/2020
The Development Flows to Agriculture (DFA) database is to provide readily available data to enable analysis on aid flows and the purposes they serve, with an...
