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U.N. food and agriculture body launches new data platform to boost evidence-based decision-making

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BY Staff Writer
23 Jul 2020
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched on Tuesday (July 21) a new data platform it hopes will strengthen evidence-based decision-making.

FAO’s new geospatial platform holds data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics and natural resources.

The platform incorporates FAOSTAT data on food and agriculture for the U.N. body’s 194 member countries and 51 territories. It carries a million geospatial layers and thousands of statistics series with over 4,000 metadata records, and gathers geographic information and statistical data on over ten domains linked to food and agriculture. It also includes information on the impact of COVID-19 on food and agriculture.

All data come from FAO and other public data providers across the United Nations and NGOs, academia, private sector and space agencies.

FAO said it will add new datasets and country- and domain-specific case studies to improve targeting and tailoring of policy interventions, innovation, finance and investment, and institutional reform in food and agriculture.

The platform is open for public use and is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand initiative aimed at accelerating agricultural transformation and sustainable rural development to eradicate poverty (SDG1) and end hunger and all forms of malnutrition (SDG2).

In conjunction with Hand-in-Hand, the Islamic Development bank on Wednesday signed an MoU and executive action plan with the FAO for the exchange of information between the two bodies. The agreement aims to step up their coordination on joint projects and cooperation on economic empowerment, IsDB said in a tweet.

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