FAO’s Agricultural Integrated Survey Programme (AGRISurvey) helps countries strengthen their national agricultural survey systems and enhance access to agricultural statistics. By supporting the development of national survey programmes, FAO employs a cost-effective modular survey approach that leverages innovative technologies to reduce costs and improve data quality. This approach enables countr...

The FAO report Gender and Land Statistics (2015) examines sex-disaggregated land ownership data, primarily sourced from large-scale household surveys and multiple rounds of the World Census of Agriculture (WCA)....

The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the well-being of their households, creating opportunities...

The importance of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation has been highlighted at global level, including under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement. Simultaneously, adaptation M&E systems are beginning to emerge at the national level in the context of national planning and budgetingprocesses. This technical guidance note d...

The CGIAR Systemwide Program on Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) was born out of recommendations agreed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. It has operated as a CGIAR Program since 1994. The Program has an ecoregional focus on the forest-agriculture margin in the humid tropics, with benchmark sites in the Amazon of Brazil and Peru, the Congo Basin forest of Cameroon, the island of Sumatra in Indones...

This chapter contains a description of the concepts and definitions for the agricultural census core and supplementary items given in Chapter 4 of the FAO report "A system of integrated agricultural censuses and surveys". The concepts and definitions have been developed taking into consideration international standards and the need for comparability with previous agricultural censuses and with oth...

Food safety is of immense importance and has been a major concern of the consumers, more than its nutritive value and quality. The global trade in food commodities has further necessitated compliance to food safety, hygiene and environmental sustainability. Food commodities produced through climate-smart ways in terms of compliance to good agricultural and environmentally sustainable standards can...

To help companies design the clean cooking solution that best meets the preferences of home cooks, the Clean Cooking Alliance’s User Insights Lab (UIL) launched the People Insights Portal. This new platform translates ethnographic research into accessible insights that organizations can use to better design, market, and sustain clean cooking solutions....

The MRV frameworks for improved cookstove (ICS) projects and many other approaches to reducing harmful emissions from household energy differ from those of other sectors due to the distributed nature of the interventions involved. The purpose of this guide is to offer an introductory overview of these MRV frameworks. Companion documents including a guide to developing implementation plans for clea...

This community‐based fire integrated communication strategy is one of the strategic plans of the National Forest Monitoring and Assessment (NAFORMA) project − a collaboration between the Governments of the Republic of Tanzania and Finland and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.The purpose of the FAO‐Fin Integrated Fire Management Project (under Outcome 3: Sustainable...