On the occasion of World Statistics Day, the Office of the Chief Statistician and the Statistics Technical Network held the webinar “Unlocking Food and Agriculture Microdata to Achieve the SDGs: The FAM Catalogue”. The event provided insights about the functionalities and benefits of the FAM Catalogue, FAO's microdata platform on food...

Background On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 aspirational objectives to guide actions of governments, international agencies, civil society and other institutions over the next 15 years (2016- 2030). The SDGs aim at ending poverty and...

Malabo, Guinea Ecuatorial Background On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a
set of 17 aspirational objectives to guide actions of governments, international agencies, civil society and other institutions
over the next 15 years (2016- 2030). The SDGs aim at ending poverty and...

FAO's report “Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators” offers detailed analysis and trends on 22 indicators under its custodianship across 6 SDGs (2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15). Available in a digital format, this year’s edition has also been enriched with an assessment of the progress made at national, regional...

The overall objective of this virtual training is to provide (government officials responsible for monitoring SDG indicator 2.4.1) capacity development on the methodology, data collection and analysis relevant to sustainable food and agriculture and how to assess data gaps starting from available national and subnational (farm-level) information and associated reporting...