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🛰️🌽 What if we could forecast maize yields up to 12 weeks before harvest?
FAO and the University of Valencia are training Zimbabwean experts in the ARYA system, using satellite data to strengthen crop monitoring and food security planning. 🇿🇼
#EarlyWarning #ESTELLA
Latin America prepares for 2030 Round of agricultural censuses
At 25th meeting of Executive Committee of Statistical Conference of the Americas of @CEPAL, @FAOstatistics shared experiences, best practices & common challenges to strengthen agricultural censuses across the region.
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This week, @NGfmafs, @FAO, @WFP, @UNICEF, @CILSSinfos & stakeholder commence consolidation of the October 2026 #CadreHarmonise analysis. The unified tool classifies acute food insecurity levels across 5 standard phases to guide early warning & emergency response by @NigeriaGov.
Can AI build more resilient food systems for🌍’s most vulnerable people?
@FAOstatistics joined AI Collaborative: Food Security Summit in NY to advance solutions for earlier hunger forecasting, climate-resilient crops & AI tools for smallholder farmers
📊aicfoodsecurity.org
Today we're talking spinach & #StatsTrivia!
According to #FAOSTAT, 2024🌏spinach production = 30.7 million tons. 95.7% of that production in Asia.
Top🔟🌏spinach producers:
1⃣ China🇨🇳
2⃣ USA🇺🇸
3⃣ Kenya🇰🇪
4⃣ Turkiye🇹🇷
5⃣ Japan🇯🇵
6⃣🇮🇩7⃣🇲🇾8⃣🇮🇹9⃣🇮🇷🔟🇧🇪
New research by @FAOstatistics in the Journal of Nutrition introduces the #FAOSTAT Food & Diet Domain: the world's first global platform for harmonized dietary data - a new resource that supports evidence-based policymaking for #FoodSecurity & nutrition
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🌻 Türkiye, ayçiçeği tohumu üretiminde dünyada ilk 5 ülke arasında! 🇹🇷
📊 FAOSTAT verilerine göre 2024 yılında dünyada 52 milyon ton ayçiçeği tohumu üretildi. Küresel üretimin %72’si Avrupa’da gerçekleşirken Türkiye, en büyük 5. üretici oldu.
Let's brighten your day with 🌻🌻 & #StatsTrivia!
According to #FAOSTAT, 2024 sunflower seed production was 52 million tons, 72% of that production in Europe.
Top🔟🌍🌻 seed producers:
1⃣ Russia🇷🇺
2⃣ Ukraine🇺🇦
3⃣ Argentina🇦🇷
4⃣ China 🇨🇳
5⃣ Turkiye🇹🇷
6⃣🇰🇿7⃣🇭🇺8⃣🇧🇬9⃣🇷🇴🔟🇫🇷
New survey brief from @FAOStatistics & @WorldBank under @50x2030 highlights key findings on agricultural holdings in the household sector in Mali during 2023/24 ag season. Explore indicators on land use, crop production, livestock, inputs & labor 🌾🐄
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Let's brighten your day with 🌻🌻 & #StatsTrivia!
According to #FAOSTAT, 2024 sunflower seed production was 52 million tons, 72% of that production in Europe.
Top🔟🌍🌻 seed producers:
1⃣ Russia🇷🇺
2⃣ Ukraine🇺🇦
3⃣ Argentina🇦🇷
4⃣ China 🇨🇳
5⃣ Turkiye🇹🇷
6⃣🇰🇿7⃣🇭🇺8⃣🇧🇬9⃣🇷🇴🔟🇫🇷
FAO Statistics retweeted
🌾 Ukraine has deposited 773 seed samples from 10 crop collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. This builds on work by FAO and partners, with EU funding, to safeguard the country's crop diversity and help strengthen global food security for generations to come.
Wonderful to see #FoodLoss measurement being placed from and center in the Pacific region. Congrats to @FAOPacific for your commitment to improving data & statistics on regional food loss. 👏👏
From 19–23 Oct, FAO brought together statisticians & agriculture officials from 13 Pacific Island countries in Apia, Samoa, to strengthen food loss measurement 📊
Better data = smarter action
🌱 Every bit of food saved counts!
🔗 fao.org/asiapacific/events/e…
Take a look at this new @FAOstatistics paper in @ESSD_journal
“FAO estimates of net forest emissions and removals, 1990–2025”
Available in #OpenAccess
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New survey brief from @FAOStatistics & @WorldBank under @50x2030 highlights key findings on agricultural holdings in Benin during ag season 2024/25.
Explore indicators on agricultural land, crop output & yields, input use, gender gaps & food security
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We know you ♥️ #StatsTrivia as much as we do, so let's delve into 🥥 stats!
Per #FAOSTAT, 2024 🌏 coconut🥥 production = 65 M tons, 84.2% from Asia
Top 🔟🌏🥥producers:
1⃣ Indonesia
2⃣ India
3⃣ Philippines
4⃣ Brazil
5⃣ Viet Nam
6⃣ Sri Lanka 7⃣ Myanmar8⃣ PNG 9⃣ Mexico🔟Thailand
New survey brief from @FAOStatistics & @WorldBank under @50x2030 highlights key findings on agricultural holdings in Zambia during the 2023/24 agricultural season.
Explore indicators on land, crop production, livestock, inputs, gender and labour 🌾🐄
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Costa Rica strengthens forest transparency with the publication of its first National Forest Inventory (#NFI) cycle in FAO’s FAM Catalogue, improving access to key forest data for monitoring and policymaking.
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If you're a statistician looking for new opportunities, we @FAOstatistics have opportunities for you to join us!
Statistician (Agricultural Censuses) P4
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Statistician (Food Security and Nutrition Statistics) P3
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Deadline: 23 Oct
👓Have you read the 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report : Understanding and addressing the high cost of a healthy diet 🍽️ ?
Download YOUR copy of #SOFI2026 today 👇
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#AgriculturalStatistics capacity building training underway in Nigeria 🇳🇬!
Better statistical training > Better/more reliable statistical gathering> More robust national data> Better agricultural policies & priority setting. 💚🤍💚
Building capacity for more reliable agricultural statistics in #Nigeria🇳🇬!
@FAO's two-day joint field exercise strengthened practical skills in crop-cutting techniques, to improve yield estimation and agricultural data collection.
@FmardNg
@NBS_Nigeria
@FAOstatistics
FAO Statistics retweeted
Building capacity for more reliable agricultural statistics in #Nigeria🇳🇬!
@FAO's two-day joint field exercise strengthened practical skills in crop-cutting techniques, to improve yield estimation and agricultural data collection.
@FmardNg
@NBS_Nigeria
@FAOstatistics