From the field

The Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), has made a significant step toward forest data transparency by creating metadata, microdata, and supplementary resources from its National Forest Inventory (NFI) publicly available on the Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) catalogue developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This initiative marks a milestone in the country’s journey towards sustainable forest management and global environmental goals.

FAO’s Earth Observation for Statistics (FAO-EOSTAT) project, an innovative initiative supported by the Agrifood Economics and Policy (ESA) and the Statistics (ESS) Divisions, leverages next-generation Earth Observation (EO) big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance traditional statistical tools for producing land cover and land use statistics.

How FAO's state-of-the-art data platform is speeding up emergency relief operations in Afghanistan and beyond.

ASTI, a global leading programme in compiling and analyzing agricultural research data for over two decades.

Discover how the groundbreaking Open Foris platform can restore and protect forests.

Investing in young African women and men to improve countries’ agricultural data

Face-to-face surveys conducted across 34 provinces for the first time

Quality data in the agricultural sector is vital for informing effective policymaking and accelerating efforts toward sustainable development within the country.

The data collection mission in Liberia as part of the Liberia 2022/2023 Census of Agriculture, has started on 18 January 2024....

The WaPOR water-efficiency portal and a land-cover monitoring project in Lesotho both contribute to SDG monitoring

Information from satellites is being used in a new way to help Lesotho develop and maintain a comprehensive next generation land cover database, as part of a collaboration between FAO experts, GIZ and the Government of Lesotho. 

The organization’s work on measuring and monitoring SDG indicator 15.4.2, the Mountain Green Cover Index (MGCI), awarded at GEO Week 2021