FAO and the Intake Center for Dietary Assessment have jointly convened a meeting about “Dietary Data Collection, Analysis and Use: Taking Stock of Country Experiences and Promising Practices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” on 11–13 December 2019 at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform now has 22 datasets available. You can now access ready-to-use infographics and download the full microdata of 7 nationwide surveys and 15 sub-national surveys from different countries. 

This Call for Expression of Interest, issued by FAO, is to identify institutions from low- and middle-income countries, with access to Individual Quantitative Food Consumption (IQFC) data that could be shared through the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.

The Food and Nutrition Division at FAO led a 3-week training course with 25 participants gathered in Vientiane, Lao PDR and others on Zoom to explain how to use dietary data. 

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform now has 32 datasets available. You can now access ready-to-use infographics and download the full microdata of 10 nationwide surveys and 22 sub-national surveys from different countries. 

A stakeholder workshop was provided to raise awareness and promote the use of dietary data in various domains and nutrition-related sectors in Lao People's Democratic Republic. 

Do you see the world in numbers? Do you study charts like an art lover studies Renoir? Do you love statistics in all its forms? Well, FAO does too! FAO’s new open data policy makes fact-finding and information-sharing easier. 

We are pleased to announce the publication of the "Global report on the state of dietary data", prepared as a joint collaboration between the Food and Nutrition Division of FAO and the Intake Center for Dietary Assessment at FHI Solutions. 

FAO/WHO GIFT will be presented at a Side Event of the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum on 6 May 2022, 7:30-9:00 EDT/13.30-15.00 CEST, following a Mapping of Digital-Related Initiatives Across the UN System, where 489 inputs from 39 UN entities were received.