Tools and Approaches
Dimitra Community Listeners’ Clubs
2017
The FAO Dimitra Community Listeners’ Clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – working together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make decisions and take action to resolve their problems....
Global Farmer Field Schools Platform
2017
The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach is based on people-centred learning. Participants can exchange knowledge and experiences in a risk-free setting.
Climate Smart Agriculture
2017
Climate smart agriculture is an approach that helps guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate.
AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture
2017
AQUASTAT is FAO's global water information system, developed by the Land and Water Division. It is the most quoted source on global water statistics.
Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
2017
This tool addresses the need to better understand and incorporate the situations, concerns and interests of family farmers and pastoralists relating to climate resilience.
EX-Ante Carbon balance Tool (EX-ACT)
2017
The Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) is an appraisal system developed by FAO to provide estimates of the impact of agriculture and forestry development projects, programmes and policies on the carbon-balance.
Source-to-Sea
2017
The Action Platform for Source-to-Sea Management (S2S Platform) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that helps freshwater, coastal and marine experts contribute to global knowledge generation on source-to-sea interconnections; connect and engage in collaborative projects; promote best practices; and take collaborative action to improve the management of land, water, coastal and marine...
Collect Earth
2017
Collect Earth is a Google Earth plugin developed in FAO for forest sampling analysis in synchronism with Google Earth Engine and Open Foris Collect. The tool enables data collection through Google Earth. In conjunction with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine, users can analyse high and very high-resolution...
FAOSTAT
2017
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.
Global Land Degradation Information System
2017
The Global Land Degradation Information System (GLADIS) is a global tool that contains low resolution information on the status of land and ecosystem resources and the processes acting on them. The main instrument of GLADIS is the analytical tool that can be used to identify the main ecosystem properties in...