OSG coordinates FAO's efforts to accelerate the 2030 Agenda through the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems, by supporting countries and stakeholders to increase their capacity to implement the SDGs. FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-2031 aligns the Organization with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Visit FAO's SDG Indicators Data Portal to find out more about the SDG indicators under FAO custodianship - methodology, key results, events and focal points. Countries' capacity to monitor and report the 21 SDG indicators under FAO custodianship. Access the latest methodological documents and tools on the SDG indicators under FAO custodianship.

FAO focuses on monitoring of six goals: SDGs 2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15. Compiling the globally agreed indicators to monitor the progress on the SDGs is a great challenge for member countries with regard to their current data availability, statistical capacity and resource capability. FAO is therefore assisting countries through

With its expertise and resources, FAO is well positioned to support countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, most of which are related to FAO’s work. We cannot afford to miss the opportunity of becoming the Generation Zero Hunger. • • • • • • • Key FAO messages:

FAO is recognized as having a fundamental global role in developing methods and standards for food and agriculture statistics, and in providing technical assistance that can help countries meet the new monitoring challenges. FAO is proposed ‘custodian’ UN agency for 21 SDG indicators, across SDGs 2, 5, 6, 12, 14

becoming the Generation Zero Hunger. The Sustainable Development Goals offer a vision of a fairer, more prosperous, peaceful and sustainable world in which no one is left behind.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) published its 2023 analysis of trends on selected indicators across eight SDGs. The report finds that while progress on many of the food and agriculture-related targets has stagnated or reversed, and data gaps persist, the “vision of a world with zero hunger and malnutrition, and with ...

The FAO Chief Economist participated in the SDG Digital Day on 17 September 2023, during the SDG Acceleration weekend event at the UNGA 2023. To accelerate agrifood systems transformation,...

Access data on the 22 SDG indicators under FAO custodianship at the global, regional and country levels.

Satellite imagery data reveals that the world's mountain green coverage has remained stable globally, at about 73 percent between 2000 and 2018. In 2021, FAO adopted a new Strategic Framework with SDGs 1, 2 and 10 as its core pillars.