FAO has unveiled two critical progress reports on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators – 6.4.1 “Change in water-use efficiency” and 6.4.2 “Level of water stress”, for which FAO is the custodian agency. Both indicators are critical for agricultural productivity and resilience, as well ...

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.

SOFI 2024 report highlights a cost-hunger trap plaguing some re...

1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa

Building upon a successful partnership since 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Sapienza University of Rome are set to reinforce their collaboration through the...

The WaPOR water-efficiency portal and a land-cover monitoring project in Lesotho both contribute to SDG monitoring

Worrying FAO report provides food for thought to world leaders ahead of upcoming UN SDG summit in New York

The FAO Data Explorer is the corporate data dissemination platform of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  

Rome/New York/Geneva – Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest State ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called for enhanced statistical capacities, innovative tools and funding to produce, access and use more and better data for policy-making.

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 

Information from satellites is being used in a new way to help Lesotho develop and maintain a comprehensive next generation land cover database, as part of a collaboration between FAO experts, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Government of Lesotho. FAO’s EOSTAT pro...

With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, Member States have pledged to "leave no one behind" and called for “the social, economic and political inclusion of all regardless of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, economic status or other”

Two new e-learning courses and publications on indicators of SDG target 6.4 have been produced in Portuguese recently to accelerate the achievement of SDG 6, to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. 

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.

Data are essential for effective, evidence-based decision and policy-making. In many cases, these data already exist, but are not accessible.

Improving data collection and analysis to monitor progress towards the SDG targets using robust, statistically sound indicators for food and nutrition security.