Daily Food Prices Monitoring and Food Inflation Nowcasting
01/01/2023
The Data Lab monitors daily food prices to warn about possible anomalous dynamics, using analytical and visual tools. Moreover, the Data Lab nowcasts official food consumer price indices, based on daily prices and other high-frequency indicators.
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Crop Calendar
01/01/2023
The Crop Calendar is searchable platform which aids farmers’ decision making on planting and harvesting periods, sowing rates and other cultural practices for crops according to agroecological zones.
Data in Emergencies Hub
01/01/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub in June 2021 to provide a regularly updated and highly accessible picture of food insecurity in fragile environments and to inform FAO’s evidence-based programming.
Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)
01/01/2023
The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) is an inter-agency platform to enhance food market transparency and policy response for food security. It provides market information on four grains particularly important in international food markets: wheat, maize, rice and soybeans.
INFOODS
01/01/2023
INFOODS is the International Network of Food Data Systems. It was established in 1984. It is a worldwide network of food composition experts aiming to improve the quality, availability, reliability and use of food composition data. INFOODS also stands as a forum through which international harmonization and support for food composition activities can be achieved and advocated.
Investment Learning Platform
01/01/2023
The Investment Learning Platform (ILP) aims to provide concise and practical guidance to those who plan, formulate, implement or evaluate public investment in agriculture and rural development, in particular government, their advisors and partners.
FAOSTAT
01/01/2023
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture statistics (including crop, livestock, and forestry sub-sectors) for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.
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Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA)
01/01/2023
GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). GACSA works to improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way; build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate; reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, when possible.
AGORA - Research in Agriculture
01/01/2023
The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of up to 15,500 key journals and up to 48,000 books in more than 115 countries.
GIFT: Global individual food consumption data tool
01/01/2023
FAO/WHO GIFT is an open-access online platform aimed at providing access to harmonised data on what people eat - individual food consumption data. The platform is a growing data repository that leverages existing data to enable and support informed decision making to improve national food and nutrition policies.
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Global Forest Resources Assessment
01/01/2023
FAO has been monitoring the world’s forests at 5 to 10 year intervals since 1946. The Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) are now produced every five years in an attempt to provide a consistent approach to describing the world’s forests and how they are changing.
Collaborative Partnership on Forests
01/01/2023
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is an informal, voluntary arrangement among 16 international organizations and secretariats with substantial programmes on forests. These agencies share their experiences and build on them to produce new benefits for their respective constituencies.
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World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (WIEWS)
01/01/2023
WIEWS is the information system used by FAO for the preparation of periodic, country-driven global assessments of the status of conservation and use of Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. WIEWS also monitors, on the basis of country reports, the implementation of the Second Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted in 2011.
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Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership
01/01/2023
The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership is a multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the environmental sustainability of the livestock sector through harmonized methods, metrics, and data. LEAP leads a coordinated global initiative to accelerate the sustainable development of livestock supply chain and to support coherent climate actions...
FAO Digital Services Portfolio
01/01/2023
The FAO Digital Services Portfolio is a cloud based platform designed to disseminate information in the food and agriculture sectors and scale up agricultural services for smallholders farmers, fostering digital inclusion. It aims at making useful data, information and statistics available and accessible to rural communities...
Codex Alimentarius
01/01/2023
The Codex Alimentarius, or "Food Code" is a collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Commission, also known as CAC, is the central part of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme and was established by FAO and WHO to protect consumer health and promote fair practices in food trade.
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Global Environment Facility
01/01/2023
As a partner agency for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), FAO supports countries worldwide in addressing the complex challenges at the nexus between the environment, agriculture, forestry, marine and freshwater resources. FAO’s global GEF portfolio currently exceeds USD 1 billion, assisting more than 120 countries in projects that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)..
AQUASTAT
01/01/2023
AQUASTAT is the FAO global information system on water resources and agricultural water management. It collects, analyses and provides free access to over 180 variables and indicators by country. AQUASTAT plays a key role in the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 that sets out to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all".
Locust Hub
01/01/2023
Along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, the East Africa region now faces a hunger threat from Desert Locust. This is a scourge of biblical proportions. This database provides information, maps and resources about the state of the locust upsurge and UN's ongoing response efforts.
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Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)
01/01/2023
The FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is an open, neutral platform for multistakeholder dialogue facilitated by the FAO Agrifood Economics Division (ESA). It engages a wide range of individuals and institutions, fostering awareness, knowledge sharing, debate and mutual learning on a wide range of issues that affect food security and nutrition, and food systems.