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.
The new FAO global database on agriculture investment and capital stock. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 19-16
02/09/2019
This paper presents the new FAO analytical database on aggregate physical investment flows and capital stock in agriculture, forestry and fishing for 206 countries and...
Regional Workshop on the Operational Guidelines of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)
17/06/2019
The meeting is the first in the series of regional workshop planned to present the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020 to the FAO...
Global Trends in GDP, Agriculture Value Added, and Food-Processing Value Added (1970-2017) - June 2019
03/06/2019
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macroeconomic indicators relating to total economy; agriculture,...
Development flows to agriculture - June 2019
03/06/2019
The Development Flows to Agriculture (DFA) dataset is an important component of Agricultural Investment Financing Statistics which also includes Government Expenditures on Agriculture (GEA), Foreign...
Natural Capital Accounting: FAO and UNECA organize training on environmental and economic statistics in Rabat
23/04/2019
Rabat, 25 April 2019. FAO and the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) conducted a joint training workshop on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting...
Regional Workshop on the Operational Guidelines of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)
22/04/2019
The meeting is the first in the series of regional workshop planned to present the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020 to the FAO member countries in different...
Methodology for Computing and Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 18-14
01/04/2019
The purpose of this note is to inform on the statistical methodology for computing and monitoring target 2.3 and measure progress in SDG indicators 2.3.1...
The Food Loss Index Design, Data Collection Methods and Challenges. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 18-13
01/04/2019
This document describes the steps for calculating the Food Loss Index along with a method to aggregate data from subnational stages of the supply chain...
Analytical Report on Inflation in Consumer Price Index for Food - March 2019
01/03/2019
Global and Regional Food Consumer Price Indices (CPI) measure food inflation for a group of countries at different geographical scales: sub-regional (e.g. South America), regional...
Government expenditure on agriculture - February 2019
01/02/2019
Since 2012 FAO collects Government Expenditure on Agriculture (GEA) data through a questionnaire annually sent in May to more than 150 countries. The questionnaire was...
