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This dashboard is associated to the new issue of the FAO series The future of food and agriculture (FOFA) on drivers and triggers for transformation and allows you to explore data on the drivers analysed by the report.

Fisheries and aquaculture have the capacity – if supported and developed in a regulated and environmentally sensitive manner – to contribute significantly to improving the well-being of poor and disadvantaged communities...

Key messages Hunger in the Arab region has continued to rise since 2014. The number of undernourished people reached 69 million in 2020, or 15.8 percent of the...

Key messages By disrupting economic and livelihood activities, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic economic downturn in Asia and the Pacific and exacerbated hunger and food insecurity. Economic downturns...

Key messages Africa is not on track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of Sustainable Development Goal 2. After a long period of improvement between...

Key messages While the worldwide prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increased from 8.4 percent in 2019 to 9.9 percent in 2020, the PoU in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region...

This document provides guidance to policymakers on how to monitor the sustainability of the bioeconomy in their country or within a macro-region, such as the European Union (EU). In any geographical context, the bioeconomy...

There are more than 608 million farms in the world and more than 90 percent of them (more than 550 million) can be considered family farms as they...

Key messages In 2020, 59.7 million people in LAC were undernourished, which is 13.8 million people more than in 2019, a 30% rise in the number of people...

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural...