The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has won an award for developing new methods to monitor a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator on the amount of green vegetation covering the world’s mountains, using satellite images and modelling.

The stark findings of a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) show that COVID-19 has set back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enshrined in the UN's Agenda 2030, undermining decades of development efforts.

In the context of monitoring and reporting on SDG Indicator 6.4.2 on level of water stress, the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 (IMI-SDG6) implemented by the FAO Land and Water Division, in collaboration with IHE Delf Institute for Water Education (IHE Delf), has developed an online course available in English.

On the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, take the opportunity to learn how FAO assesses the genetic conservation of plants and animals. Protecting the planet’s biodiversity is a critical pillar of the Sustainable Development Goal Agenda, and FAO strives to ensure that these considerations are integrated into food and agriculture agendas globally. In its role as custodian agency for 21 SDG indicators, FAO has launched several e-learning courses, including one on assessing plant and animal genetic resources.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are strengthening their partnership in order to generate and share data and information and thus better support countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Businesses and the private sector more broadly can provide an important contribution to achieving and tracking progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), although their specific role is not sufficiently mainstreamed in the 2030 Agenda. This is why FAO has developed guidelines entitl...

FAO’s report “Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020” offers detailed analysis and trends on the SDG indicators under its custodianship

In two pieces published by the Journal of Sustainability Research and Nature Plants, FAO staff speak to the challenges of measuring SDG indicators and highlight the Organization’s efforts in strengthening the statistical capacities of countries to better support evidence-based national po...

The ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda to “end all forms of poverty”, “achieve sustainable development in all three dimensions” and “leave no one behind” has been widely applauded. But, three years into the SDGs era, hunger is on the rise, poverty now affec...

Are we on course to achieve Zero Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030? Where are we making progress, and what do we need to do to step up efforts?

These are the key questions that will be addressed by the 

17 Goals and 169 targets, plus a wealth of indicators for countries to track progress, is a lot! As the custodian agency for 21 SDG indicators, and partner agency in four other indicators, FAO has a critical role in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. 

With the aim of assisting...

A new publication presents FAO’s work in developing and strengthening indicators that measure food, agriculture and the sustainable use of natural resources.

On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – includ...

September’s post-2015 development agenda summit of heads of state and government may well attract global headlines this year, but much of the really significant work is being executed...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has put forward a total of 29 indicators covering eight goals of the July 2014 proposal of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help monitor the post-2015 development agenda.

The FAO...

The newly released State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 (SOFI 2015) captures the final score on progress made in the MDG era to halve the global share of hungry people (MDG 1c). From big gains in East Asia to disparities across regions, here are six ma...

Targets and indicators was the featured topic of discussion at the third session of the UNGA intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda that took place from 23 to 27 March 2015 in New York. In response to a request by IGNP Co-Facilitators Macharia Kamau of Kenya and Dav...

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) hunger target is “within reach”, according to a new UN report released on 16 September that shows the proportion of chronically undernourished people in the world falling to 805 million in 2012-2014

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released proposed targets and indicators for 14 themes the Organization is focusing on in support of the UN-wide process to define global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Following April’s release of