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BookletAnnual reportDigital FAO and agro-informatics transformation at scale
Annual report 2024
2025Also available in:
No results found.2024 was marked by more progress and achievements to celebrate together, as efforts were focused on powering digitalization and enhancing digital capabilities for FAO programme deliveryand beyond. Today more than ever, FAO emphasizes the importance of fostering a strong digital mindset within the Organization and improving the utilization of the FAO digital workplace to always pave the way towards more modernity, efficiency and effectiveness for all. Furthermore, the Organization aims to maximize the impact of digitalization at both local and organizational levels, ensuring efficient programme formulation and delivery, illustrating with concrete examples worldwide the transformative power of digital technologies. This common digital journey drives transformation at scale, for all, with renewed energy, leaving no one behind. -
Book (stand-alone)HandbookAgro-informatics Platform
How to use shapefiles
2025Also available in:
No results found.This guide explains how to display and analyse an ESRI shapefile on the FAO Agro-informatics Platform. Shapefiles are widely used in geographic information systems (GIS) to represent boundaries, regions, or other spatial features. By uploading a shapefile, you can bring your own geographic data into the platform and combine it with existing datasets for tailored analysis. Once displayed, your shapefile can be used to explore land cover, agricultural resources, or other thematic datasets available on the platform. This functionality allows you to visualize custom administrative units, project areas, or research zones, and to perform analysis – such as land-cover composition or statistical summaries – directly within your chosen boundaries. Using shapefiles in this way is particularly valuable for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who need to analyse data for non-standard geographic areas, compare regions not included in default datasets, or integrate local knowledge into larger geospatial studies. It supports more precise, localized insights that can inform decision-making, monitoring, and planning. -
Book (stand-alone)HandbookAgro-informatics Platform
How to perform time-series analysis
2025Also available in:
No results found.This guide introduces you to the process of performing time-series analysis on the FAO Agro-informatics Platform. Time-series analysis allows you to track how data evolve over time within a defined area, helping you identify patterns, trends, and changes that may not be visible in a single snapshot. By comparing data across different years or periods, you can gain valuable insights into long-term developments and their implications for agriculture, land use, and natural resources. With this guide, you will learn how to add datasets, select areas of interest, and generate time-series charts that display variations in key indicators over time. The platform also enables you to compare multiple areas, view data in tabular format, and sort results to better understand the dynamics at play. Whether your aim is to monitor land-use changes, evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural policies, assess the impact of climate variability, or support planning for sustainable development, time-series analysis provides a robust framework for evidence-based decision-making. This guide will help you take your first steps in applying these tools effectively on the platform.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileState of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities
Report 2020
2020Also available in:
No results found.There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookGlobal Forest Resources Assessment 2020
Main report
2020FAO completed its first assessment of the world’s forest resources in 1948. At that time, its major objective was to collect information on available timber supply to satisfy post-war reconstruction demand. Since then, the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. This, the latest of these assessments, examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2020, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide. The production of FRA 2020 also involved collaboration among many partner organizations, thereby reducing the reporting burden on countries, increasing synergies among reporting processes, and improving data consistency. The results of FRA 2020 are available in several formats, including this report and an online database containing the original inputs of countries and territories as well as desk studies and regional and global analyses prepared by FAO. I invite you to use these materials to support our common journey towards a more sustainable future with forests. -
BookletCorporate general interestOrganic foods – Are they safer?
Food safety technical toolkit for Asia and the Pacific
2021Also available in:
No results found.Organic agriculture is increasingly under the spotlight for being a promising approach to address the challenges raised by the increasing demographics and urbanization as well as climate change. In the eyes of consumers, this often translates into healthier, safer, tastier and more environmentally friendly foods. But the “organic” certification actually indicates products that are produced in accordance with certain standards throughout the production, handling, processing and marketing stages, and which aim at a different set of benefits: better incomes for small-scale farmers and increased food security, environmental benefits such as improved soil and water quality and biodiversity preservation, and improved animal welfare. Therefore, while organic agriculture may relate to a set of different improved practices, the term organic in and of itself is not a guarantee of food safety. Finally, organic agriculture can be considered as part of the broader approach of agroecology, where ecological concepts and principles are applied in order to optimize interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment, and consideration is given to social aspects that need to be considered for a sustainable and fair food system.