Technical assistance in computing the SDG indicators 2.3.1, 2.3.2 and 5.a.1 in Eswatini

11/04/2023 - 21/04/2023

The FAO Regional Office for Africa and the Office of the Chief Statistician organised a series of training sessions in April 2023 to assist the Central Bureau of Statistics of Eswatini in computing SDG indicators 2.3.1, 2.3.2, and 5.a.1, as well as integrating them into current survey instruments.

GEO Week 2023 and GEO SDG Awards

Hybrid Event, 06/11/2023 - 10/11/2023

GEO Week 2023 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-10 November 2023. The week will include the GEO Sustainable Development Goals Award in the Category SDG Custodian Agency. Organized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the event will be hosted by the Government of South Africa.

Fourteenth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs

23/10/2023 - 25/10/2023

The fourteenth meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) will be held in person from 23 to 25 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Regional Roundtable "Empowerment of rural women and implementation of SDG indicator 5.a.1 in the Western Balkans"

Hybrid Event, 05/10/2023 - 06/10/2023

This joint event will showcase the good practices and lessons learned from ten years of GIZ and FAO collaboration in the Western Balkans region with a focus on women economic empowerment through equal tenure rights (SDG 5). 

FAO at the UN Datathon 2023

Hybrid Event, 03/11/2023 - 06/11/2023

Leverage technology and your expertise to develop innovative solutions for a more sustainable and equitable future.

Launch of the "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023" report

Hybrid Event, 15/09/2023

The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva and FAO Office of Chief Statistician (OCS) launched the "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023" report in Geneva.

FAO at World Water Week 2023

Virtual Event, 20/08/2023 - 24/08/2023

Experts gather in Stockholm for leading annual conference on water.

Training on SDG indicator 2.4.1 (Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture), Samoa

19/05/2023 - 29/05/2023

Samoa has been selected as one of the beneficiary countries under the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) project. In this context, the SDG 2.4.1 team of Agri-Environmental Statistics (ESS) provided technical assistance to Samoa on SDG Indicator 2.4.1 in May 2023 in collaboration with the FAO country office in Samoa.

Launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

Hybrid Event, 12/07/2023

On 12 July 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM (New York Time), FAO and its co-publishing partners will be launching, for the fifth time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report at a Spec...

"Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture", Lecture within the framework of the Diploma in Sustainability in the Food Industry (University of Buenos Aires)

Virtual Event, 10/05/2023

FAO is the custodian agency for SDG Indicator 2.4.1 "Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture". This indicator measures progress in achieving more productive and sustainable agriculture. It is made up of relevant sub-indicators that will provide governments with strategic information for evidence based policies.

Organized by FAO and th...

[FAO x UNSD Brown Bag webinar] A Shiny Application to Track the Progress on Food and Agriculture-related SDG Indicators

Virtual Event, 04/05/2023

FAO has recently launched the FAO SDG Progress Assessment App: a web-based tool designed to automatize the assessment of progress made at the national, regional, and global level towards the achievement of the SDGs. The developed tool allows measuring the cu...

Virtual Training on Data Disaggregation and Small Area Estimation for SDG Indicators (18-24 April 2023)

Virtual Event, 18/04/2023 - 26/04/2023

From 18 to 24 April, the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Statistician in HQ, organized a virtual training to introduce statisticians and da...

FAO Side Event "Disaggregation of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 (level of water stress) by river basin" at the UN 2023 Water Conference

Hybrid Event, 24/03/2023

This event showcased a few innovative methods to disaggregate water stress (SDG 6.4.2) and its components at catchment and river basin level, through the presentation of a few case studies prepared in various countries following different methodologies.

[FAO x Data Strategy] How to Use Earth Observation Data for Agricultural Statistics & SDG Monitoring

Virtual Event, 07/02/2023

FAO, in collaboration with the Data Strategy, hosted a webinar on the use of Earth Observation data for the production of official agricultural statistics and SDG indicators.

Virtual Training on Data Disaggregation and Small Area Estimation for SDG Indicators (22-25 November 2022)

Virtual Event, 22/11/2022 - 25/11/2022

Organized by FAO's Office of Chief Statistician, the Virtual Training on Data Disaggregation and Small Area Estimation for SDG Indicators provided the statisticians and data analysts from the National Statistical Offices of Benin, Mali and South Africa with the basic methodological and practical tools to implement simple Small Area Estimation models for data disaggregatio...

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...