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