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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.
Credit to agriculture. Global and regional trends 2012–2020. FAOSTAT analytical brief 38
01/03/2022
Access to formal credit is critical to farmers for purchasing inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, plant protection materials or animal feed. In the absence of...
Foreign direct investment flows to agriculture 2010–2019. FAOSTAT analytical brief 34
23/02/2022
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is defined as an investment which aims to acquire a lasting management influence (10 percent or more of voting power) in...
UNSC 53 Side Event: The second phase of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics: a fit-for-purpose approach of capacity strengthening in Africa
10/02/2022
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 11:00am-12:30pm (New York Time) Zoom registration link This side event, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
FAO unveils improved method of measuring rural poverty
04/02/2022
FAO developed a new tool for measuring multidimensional poverty in rural areas: the Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index (R-MPI), in collaboration with the Oxford Poverty and...
Empowering countries to monitor food security
26/01/2022
The conference will present the importance and the main achievements of 10 years...
Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index
25/01/2022
This report presents the results of a collaboration between FAO and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), at the University of Oxford. The...
Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index
25/01/2022
The report jointly developed by FAO and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), articulates a conceptual framework for measuring multidimensional poverty in rural areas, and...
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21/01/2022
FAO’s new open data policy makes fact-finding and information-sharing easier
Government expenditures in agriculture 2001–2020 Global and regional trends. FAOSTAT analytical brief 35
21/01/2022
Since 2012 FAO collects Government Expenditure on Agriculture (GEA) data through a questionnaire sent annually in May to more than 190 countries. The questionnaire was...
Employment indicators 2000–2019 Global and regional trends. FAOSTAT analytical brief 36
21/01/2022
FAOSTAT updates the employment indicators yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide...
