Food and Agriculture Statistics

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.

Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part VI: fluorinated gas emissions. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 23-35

This paper is part of a series detailing new methodologies for estimating key components of agrifood systems emissions, with a view to disseminate the information...

Gross domestic product and agriculture value added 2012–2021. Global and regional trends. FAOSTAT analytical brief 64

The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides macroeconomic indicators at the country and regional levels relating to total economy; agriculture, forestry and fishing; manufacturing; agriculture sub-industry...

FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA working group on agricultural and livestock statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean. 31st session

31st Session | 28-30 March 2023. To be held virtually via Zoom, and in person in Santiago, Chile, hosted by INE Chile Documents Provisional agenda...

RuLIS country brief: West African and Monetary Union countries 2018/19 living standards and conditions survey

The Rural Livelihoods Information System (RuLIS) is a set of harmonized household- and individual-level data and indicators on different aspects of livelihoods, including crops and...

Agriculture producer prices indices 2017–2022. FAOSTAT analytical brief 62

The FAO indices of agricultural producer prices measure the average annual change over time in the selling prices received by farmers (prices at the farm-gate...

Producing agricultural population estimates using an area frame. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 23-31

Estimating with a high precision the number of agricultural holdings and other population-related indicators is one of the main targets of the agricultural surveys. Achieving...

Global indicators on the costs of healthy diets and how many people can’t afford them

FAO’s FAOSTAT data portal shows that Latin America and the Caribbean has the highest cost of a healthy diet compared to other regions

Estimating global and country-level employment in agrifood systems. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 23-34

Global and national policy discourse and agendas are moving beyond traditional silos of agriculture, nutrition, health, and climate change to address the challenges facing agrifood...

Structural data from agricultural censuses. February 2023 update. FAOSTAT analytical brief 61

The FAOSTAT domain Structural data from agricultural censuses was launched in 2022 to disseminate data collected in national censuses of agriculture at the agricultural holding...