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New data tool explores where the “food dollar” goes

FAOSTAT’s new Food Value Chain domain analyzes resource flows beyond the farm sector and across agrifood systems

New data to measure cropland nutrient budgets

FAOSTAT, the International Fertilizer Association and leading research universities offer new reference point for assessing agricultural, environment and sustainability priorities.

FAO provides a wide range of information on prices

The updated webpage summarizes the wide range of price data available in FAO

UN Report: Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021

The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition report shows the world is moving backwards in efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.    

FAO unveils new public tool based on agricultural census data

New FAOSTAT domain allows for easier assessment of trends in agriculture sectors around the world

Wealth is in the eye of the beholder

A new way of measuring rural poverty yields unexpected results in Malawi

Boosting mitigation through sustainable agrifood systems: part of the solution to climate change

Described as “the most highly anticipated piece of information on the subject of climate change mitigation”, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its...

FAO unveils improved method of measuring rural poverty

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...

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