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Agriculture Data to Tackle Food Insecurity

Project Status: In progress Global Partnership Initiative Looking for Partners
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In order to improve support for and investment in agriculture statistics, and building on our support of the 50x2030 initiative, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is building political support from UN member states and agriculture sector stakeholders on the urgent need for investment in agricultural statistics and the institutional changes that are needed to strengthen the data and statistics work of the United Nations' Rome-based agencies focusing on food and agriculture.

This content was published on July 13, 2020 and updated on November 29, 2021.
  

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