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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is marking this year’s International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) by shining a light on the importance of leveraging data to stop food loss and waste.

These guidelines are intended to provide countries with the appropriate statistical methodology and tools to properly estimate on- and off-farm losses for horticultural crops at the national and subnational levels. The proposed methodology follows a sample-based survey approach that can be either...

September 2026

The Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative is a critically important platform that collects, curates and provides internationally comparable statistics on agricultural research and development (R&D) capacities, investments and human resources.   

The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, prepared by the Statistics and Information Team of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, presents a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. This new edition marks 75 years of FAO fisheries and aquaculture statistics.

Adverse weather, Middle East Conflict, and Black Sea trade logistics mostly behind higher quotations for major food commodities

September 2026

To help build a green economy, we need a clear picture of who works in our forests.

As of December 2025, the FAM Catalogue contained 1 542 surveys and 561 388 variables and had recorded 79 000 visitors and 7 889 licensed data requests. Its collections span agricultural surveys and censuses, food security, nutrition, emergency monitoring and other areas, including a dedicated Forest Inventory Data collection. 

The latest study from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative (FSCI) reveals the stark reality of where global food systems transformation stands: For most indicators on health, environment, livelihoods, governance and resilience, a vast majority of countries will not meet the internationally agreed 2030 goals. And for some indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions from food systems, no country in the world is projected to meet the target.

New FAO Statistics Working Paper and Hand-in-Hand data dissemination

The benchmark measure of world food commodity prices edged up in July, as recent heatwaves and energy price dynamics pushed up quotations for cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to new data released Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

New FAOSTAT data release

New FAOSTAT data release

The report estimates that 7.8 percent of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8.6 percent in 2022, confirming a sustained, albeit slow, improvement. This means that around 645 million people were affected by hunger in 2025, representing a reduction of nearly 14 million compared to 2024 and 43 million compared to 2022.

Three consecutive years of progress in reducing global hunger demonstrate that hunger is not inevitable, said QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), at the launch of the 2026 The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report.

New FAOSTAT data release

July 2026

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) placed food security, livelihoods and sustainable agrifood systems at the forefront of the global artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable development agenda, calling for an inclusive, responsible and development-oriented digital transformation, during the high-level week of meetings and discussions held in Geneva from 6-10 July: the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, the AI for Good Global Summit and the first ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance.