The impact of EO for the 2030 Agenda | GEO Week

Virtual Event, 31/10/2022

Seven years into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and its dedicated SDG initiative, Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals (EO4SDG), working with partners globally and locally, have laid the foundation for governments and or...

Unlocking food and agriculture microdata to achieve the SDGs: the FAM Catalogue (2022)

Virtual Event, 27/10/2022

The Office of the Chief Statistician of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a webinar to introduce the content and the potential use of the microdata published on the Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) Catalogue. The webinar also discussed the main features and functionalities of the FAM Catalogue.

FAO's microdata platform on food security...

The spatial disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 (level of water stress) by river basin

Virtual Event, 03/10/2022

The webinar titled "The spatial disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 (level of water stress) by river basin", which was organized by the FAO Technical Network on Climate Change, showed some results of the spatial disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 indicator at river basin level, at global and subnational scale.

Water stress has an impact on countries of every continent and hinders the sus...

Virtual Training on Data Disaggregation and Small Area Estimation for the SDGs (20-28 September 2022)

Virtual Event, 20/09/2022 - 28/09/2022

From 20 to 28 September 2022, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Office of Chief Statistician organized a virtual training on Data Disaggregation and Small Area Estimation (SAE) for the SDGs. The main objective of the training was to introduce SAE methods and techniques to statisticians and data analysts from the agriculture statistics divisions of the Na...

Report's launch: "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2022"

Hybrid Event, 19/09/2022

Seven years into the 2030 Agenda, there is an urgent need to understand where the world stands in eliminating hunger and food insecurity, as well as in ensuring sustainable agriculture. FAO's new report, “Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators”, offers analysis and trends on indicators across eight SDGs (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 15), highlighting areas o...

Virtual Seminar on Producing Proxy Estimates for SDG Indicator 5.a.1 using EHCVM surveys

Virtual Event, 08/09/2022

FAO held a webinar on Producing Proxy Estimates for SDG Indicator 5.a.1 using the Enquête harmonisée sur les conditions de vie des ménages (EHCVM) or Harmonized Living Conditions Surveys on 8 September 2022. Participants came from national statistical offices, ministries of agriculture and other stakeholders of six countries from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Experts ...

Virtual Seminars on Producing Proxy Estimates for SDG Indicator 5.a.1 using Demographic and Health Surveys

Virtual Event, 17/08/2022 - 22/08/2022

FAO held a series of webinars on Producing Proxy Estimates for SDG Indicator 5.a.1 using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) on 17, 18 and 22 August 2022. Participants came from national statistical offices, ministries of agriculture and other stakeholders of 18 countries. Experts of the DHS Programme and global and regional gender statisticians of UN Women served as resource persons.

Report's launch: SOFI 2022

Hybrid Event, 06/07/2022

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report to inform on progress towards ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and to provide in-depth analysis on key challenges for achieving this goal in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This year's edition will focus on repurposing food and agricultural policies to ...

Workshop on strengthening the use of geospatial information for the production of SDG indicators

Virtual Event, 21/06/2022 - 24/06/2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Digital Earth Africa and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) are working together to provide capacity building to the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) and partners through the UNSD-FCDO project on SDG monitoring.

This project aims to increase the availability, timeliness and disaggregation of national SDG data while integratin...

Interactive regional training course on SDG 6.4 indicators (in Portuguese)

Hybrid Event, 21/06/2022 - 30/06/2022

FAO Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 (IMI-SDG6), in collaboration with AQUASTAT and the Office of the Chief Statistician, organized a regional 2-week interactive online training course on SDG indicators 6.4.1 (Change in water use efficiency over time) and 6.4.2 (Level of water stress), from 21 to 30 June 2022.

The main target group of this online trainin...