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By Marion Nestle

December 12 2025

Weekend browsing: FAO’s Statistical Yearbook

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released its Statistical Yearbook 2025.

This edition of the Yearbook showcases a new indicator, the prevalence of minimum dietary diversity, which will support monitoring progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2): ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition. This indicator helps to measure progress by assessing whether segments of the populations, such as children and women, are consuming a diverse range of foods, which is crucial for ensuring adequate nutrient intake.

FAO also released a Statistical Pocketbook, which summarizes key facts and trends.

And it offers a FAOSTAT platform, the world’s largest database on food and agriculture, with free access to over 20 000 indicators across 245 countries and territories.

The data are almost entirely visual—charts and graphs.

I found it easier to fd things in the Statistical Pocketbook.

But all of these are terrific resources. Enjoy!

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