Launch of the 2023 Report "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security"

Virtual Event, 13/10/2023

Join FAO for the launch of the flagship report "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security: Avoiding and Reducing Losses through Investment in Resilience", which will be held on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. 

Rome Water Dialogue | Launch of the WaPOR database version 3.0

Hybrid Event, 04/10/2023

WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).  

Developing a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems

Hybrid Event, 20/09/2023

The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) event is the soft launch of a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, which is suitable for use by national statistical...

Launch of the "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023" report

Hybrid Event, 15/09/2023

On 15 September, the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva and FAO Office of Chief Statistician (OCS) launched the "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023" report in Geneva.

The 64th World Statistics Congress 2023 (WSC 2023)

Hybrid Event, 16/07/2023 - 20/07/2023

From 16 to 20 July, join FAO at the World Statistics Congress, the leading international scientific congress on statistics and data science.

Launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

Virtual Event, 12/07/2023

On 12 July 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM (New York Time), FAO and its co-publishing partners will be launching, for the fifth time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report at a Special...

CWP intersessional meetings of Aquaculture and Fisheries subject groups

28/06/2023 - 30/06/2023

The Intersessional Meeting (CWP-IS) reviewed progress and provided guidance on work conducted since the Twenty-Seventh Session of CWP in 2022 including revisions to the CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistics and CWP website and the work of seven ad hoc to the CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistics and CWP website and the work of seven ad hoc Task Groups which is related to: catch and fishing effort con...

FAO Webinar Series on Forests Data and Climate Transparency

Virtual Event, 19/06/2023 - 13/07/2023

The FAO Sub-Commission of the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA), in collaboration with the FAO Forestry Division (NFO), has organized the “Forests and Climate Transparency” webinar series. 

GEO Open Data & Open Knowledge Workshop

Virtual Event, 15/06/2023 - 16/06/2023

The Data Working Group, together with the GEOSS Platform and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams are organizing a two-day Open Data and Open Knowledge workshop that will take place in Geneva from 15-16 June 2023.

Data production component of the 50x2030 Initiative: producing more and better data for policy making

Virtual Event, 13/06/2023

On Tuesday 13 June, FAO's 50x2030 team organized a webinar titled "Data production component of the 50x2030 Initiative: producing more and better data for policy making". 

[FAO x UNSD Brown Bag webinar] Essence - an integrated framework for documents retrieving and analysis

Virtual Event, 13/06/2023

For this Joint FAO and Global Network Webinar, FAO and UNSD experts presented Essence which is an integrated framework for documents retrieving and analysis developed by FAO.

Ninth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS IX)

Hybrid Event, 17/05/2023 - 19/05/2023

The International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) focuses on fostering and leveraging best practices and research in response to the changing needs and opportunities for agricultural statistics. ICAS brings together experts from around the world to share research and operational accomplishments, and to explore the latest methodological innovations by countries and development pa...

"Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture", Lecture within the framework of the Diploma in Sustainability in the Food Industry

Virtual Event, 10/05/2023

The virtual lecture with Arbab Asfandiyar Khan, co-coordinator of SDG indicator 2.4.1, FAO Statistics Division, will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.

WHEN | Wednesday 10 May 2023 (15:00 - 17:00, Rome time)

UN World Data Forum 2023

24/04/2023 - 27/04/2023

The United Nations World Data Forum 2023 (UNWDF 2023) will take place from 24 to 27 April 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The Forum’s purpose is to create a space for...

Launch of report: The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems

Virtual Event, 13/04/2023

The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems will be launched during an event that will highlight the relevance of the report’s findings for policy and decision makers, development actors, the...

17th IAOS Conference and 3rd ISI Regional Statistics Conference

Hybrid Event, 04/04/2023 - 06/04/2023

The 17th International Association for Official Statistics Conference and 3rd International Statistical Institute Regional Statistics Conference will be held in Livingstone, Zambia from 4 -6 April 2023. It is jointly organized by...

InfoPoint conference: Agricultural data-driven strategies for development, food security, and resilience

Hybrid Event, 30/03/2023

Making food systems resource efficient, environmentally sustainable, and resilient to shocks is an opportunity for agricultural transformation, sustainable economic diversification and to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable food systems are cru

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

Virtual Event, 28/03/2023 - 30/03/2023

Thirty-first session of the FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA working group on agricultural and livestock statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago (Chile). 

FAO Statistics at the UN 2023 Water Conference

Hybrid Event, 22/03/2023 - 24/03/2023

From 22 to 24 March 2023, FAO Statistics will gather in New York during the UN 2023 Water Conference, which is convened by the UN General Assembly and co-hosted by the...

FAO Webinar Series: Earth observation data for agricultural statistics

Virtual Event, 08/03/2023 - 10/05/2023

Organized from March to May 2023, FAO Webinar Series on Earth observation data for agricultural statistics raised awareness of the FAO-EOSTAT project and highlighted FAO's work on earth observation for the production of food and agriculture statistics.