Highlights archive

New Yearbook on Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics

20/09/2023

The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics offers a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

Multiple shocks keep pushing world further away from development targets

15/09/2023

Worrying FAO report provides food for thought to world leaders ahead of upcoming UN SDG summit in New York

FAO releases a new data dissemination platform: FAO DATA EXPLORER Beta version

13/09/2023

The FAO Data Explorer is the corporate data dissemination platform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

FAO Food Price Index declines in August

08/09/2023

Strong supply conditions push international commodity quotations lower except for rice and sugar

Pulp and paper capacities, survey 2022–2024

15/08/2023

New FAO statistical report

New AQUASTAT Dissemination Platform now available!

01/08/2023

AQUASTAT collects and analyses data from around the world to support the sustainable use of water.

General and food consumer price indices inflation rates. March 2023 update

20/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

Employment indicators (2000–2021). July 2023 update

17/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

Pesticides use and trade (1990–2021)

14/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

Land statistics and indicators (2000–2021). Global, regional and country trends

13/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

Development flows to agriculture (2012–2021). Global and regional trends

12/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

122 million more people pushed into hunger since 2019 due to multiple crises, reveals UN report

12/07/2023

Latest research shows around 735 million people currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019

Inorganic fertilizers (2000–2021)

11/07/2023

New FAOSTAT data release

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-32 maps key output, consumption and trade trends

06/07/2023

Production growth to slow in step with population, while geopolitical tensions, climate change, animal and plant diseases and price volatility pose long-term uncertainty

FAO Food Outlook: Global output set for expansion, but declining imports by the most vulnerable countries are a cause for concern

15/06/2023

New report points to likely production increases across most basic foodstuffs, but delicate demand-supply balances allow little room for more disruptions

FAO at the International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS)

09/06/2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called for enhanced statistical capacities, innovative tools and funding to produce, access and use more and better data for policy-making.