Highlights archive
FAO Food Price Index increases in April
02/05/2025
World cereal, meat and dairy prices up, while sugar quotations down
Ask and FAO will answer
24/04/2025
This World Intellectual Property Day, learn how FAO's statistical work is crucial in helping countries make timely and informed decisions, policies and investments to tackle issues related to food security and agricultural sustainability. And with FAO’s new creative common (cc) license, sharing knowledge and data has become easier and more efficient.
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FAO Food Price Index remains stable in March
04/04/2025
Rising vegetable oil quotations offset lower prices for wheat, maize, rice and sugar
30 years of AQUASTAT: FAO celebrates global water data milestone
04/04/2025
Event also features UN-Water strategy briefing and calls for stronger global coordination on water data
Europe and Central Asia: To feed the population, sustainable water management is essential, UN report says
02/04/2025
From FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
Temperature change statistics 1961–2024. Global, regional and country trends
28/03/2025
New FAOSTAT data release
Latin American and the Caribbean Commission for Agricultural Statistics (LACCAS), 32nd Session
27/03/2025
Latin American food and agriculture statistics are front and center this week with the 32nd session of LACCAS happening this week in Asuncion (Paraguay).
Advancing food security through collaboration
26/03/2025
Since February, FAO, La Sapienza University of Rome’s department of statistical sciences and the European Master in Official Statistics have been collaborating on a hybrid modality seminar series – the fifth of its kind.
SilvaGRIS - Global Information System on Forest Genetic Resources
26/03/2025
SilvaGRIS makes available the data countries report to FAO for monitoring the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources and for preparing global assessments on these resources.
The genetic diversity of our plants and forests is at risk, new FAO reports warn
25/03/2025
Empowering farmers, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and scientists to conserve and use genetic resources is key to resilient agrifood systems
Planting the seeds of our future
25/03/2025
With our interactive photo essay, explore the state of the world’s plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
The Second Report on the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources
25/03/2025
Drawing on data and information from 77 countries representing more than three-quarters of the world’s forests, The Second Report on the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources provides a global assessment of forest genetic resources.
The Third Report on The State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
24/03/2025
This report on the status of the conservation, management and sustainable use of plant
genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) is based primarily on information
provided by 128 countries and four regional and 13 international research centres.