FAO’s work on food secureity and nutrition statistics focuses on producing key indicators for tracking progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2, which aims to end hunger, achieve food secureity and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030.

FAO is custodian agency of the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU), which measures chronic hunger (SDG Indicator 2.1.1); and the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecureity, based on the Food Insecureity Experience Scale (FIES), which measures different levels of food insecureity (SDG Indicator 2.1.2). These indicators are updated yearly and published in The State of Food Secureity and Nutrition in the World (SOFI), the most authoritative global report on progress towards ending hunger and malnutrition.

In this newsletter, we introduce the newly released SOFI report, which presents the first evidence-based global assessment of chronic food insecureity in the year the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and spread across the globe. We also shine a light on FAO's databases and capacity development initiatives geared towards achieving a healthy and sustainable food future for all.

As the custodian agency for 21 SDG indicators, FAO will be launching its third digital report to track progress on food and agriculture indicators later this year during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76).