Two manuscripts presenting an overview of the FAO/WHO GIFT environmental infographics and their underlying methods have been published!

14th International Food Data Conference (IFDC) — 1-3 September 2025, FAO Headquarters.

Access more than 60 datasets from over 30 countries.

Access more than 50 datasets from over 30 countries.

Visualise more information with new infographics on dietary diversity, micronutrient usual intakes and environmental impact of diets.

Мы рады объявить о публикации статьи «Открытый обмен данными для диетологических обследований» в UN Nutrition Journal - Volume 1: Transforming Nutrition, global innovations section (pp.99). Эта статья иллюстрирует Глобальный инструмент ФАО/ВОЗ для сбора данных об индивидуальном потреблении продуктов питания (FAO/WHO GIFT) и то, как он позволяет широкому кругу заинтересованных сторон получать доступ к данным о рационе питания и использовать их.

Мы рады объявить о публикации статьи «Глобальные тенденции в доступности данных о рационе питания в странах с низким и средним уровнем дохода» в журнале «Nutrients», специальный выпуск «Эволюция, текущая реальность и будущее оценки рациона питания».  

In November 2015, several webinars will be conducted to illustrate the FAO/WHO GIFT prototype platform to potential end users with the objective of developing this tool in a participatory manner.

FAO and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (the Friedman School) at Tufts University have entered into a collaboration aiming to increase our understanding of what foods and nutrients people are actually consuming around the world.

Another round of webinars will be conducted this year with the aim of presenting the new prototype of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform to potential end-users and collect their feedback. The webinars will also provide an update on the status of collection, collation and dissemination of dietary data.

The Accelerated Reduction Effort on Anaemia (AREA) Community of Practice held a webinar in December 2017 on how the FAO/WHO GIFT platform may strengthen food-based approaches to reduce iron deficiency.

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform was presented to a wider audience in the UN Network for SUN webinar series in March 2018.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) held two webinars on the use of the FoodEx2 classification system in September and October 2018. FoodEx2 is a comprehensive food classification and description system aimed at covering the need to describe foods in a harmonised way. 

A new round of participatory webinars will take place in March 2019 to walk users through the new features of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.

An open access article on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform has been published in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 

A webinar session in Spanish will take place on the 6th of August 2019 to walk users through the new features of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform is funded in part by a four-year grant (2018–2022) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at transforming the platform into a robust global tool. 

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform now has 10 datasets available. You can now access ready-to-use infographics and download the full microdata of 3 nationwide surveys and 7 sub-national surveys from different countries.