• Statistics Division (ESS)
• Digitalization and Informatics Division (CSI)
• Agrifood Economics Division (ESA)
• Food Systems and Food Safety Division (ESF)
• Food and Nutrition Division (ESN)
• Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division (ESP)
• Markets and Trade Division (EST)
• Fisheries and Aquaculture Division (NFI)
• Forestry Division (NFO)
• Animal Production and Health Division (NSA)
• Land and Water Division (NSL)
• Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)
• Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB)
• Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER)

FAO has three statutory bodies on statistics, composed of senior statistics officials from member countries, which meet every two years:

• African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS)
• Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS)
• FAO/OEA-CIE/IICA Working Group on Agricultural and Livestock Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean and Latin America (IICA)

Their role is to review the state of food and agricultural statistics in their respective region, to advise Members on the development and standardization of agricultural statistics within the general framework of FAO’s work and to convene the study groups or other Subsidiary Bodies of national experts required for this purpose.

FAO Statistics and Data Quality Assurance Framework (SDQAF, 2023) and the FAO Data and Statistical Standards Series adopted more recently, set out the principles and recommended best practices to ensure that FAO statistical production processes and statistical outputs are of the highest possible quality. The SQAF is based on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities (CCSA), which guide the statistical activities of national and international organizations, and is inspired by the quality frameworks adopted by other supranational and international organizations [e.g. European Central Bank (ECB), Eurostat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)]. In 2020, FAO has also endorsed the ISI’s Declaration on Professional Ethics (2010) to encourage all its statisticians to adopt high-standard professional values and ethics in statistics.

FAO makes a significant contribution to global discussions related to food and agricultural statistics through its participation in international and regional statistical fora.

As the UN agency responsible for the development of methods and standards on food and agriculture statistics and for their implementation in countries, the Organization acts as the Secretariat of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Food Security, Agricultural and Rural Statistics (UN-CEAG) and the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP).

The Organization also participates in several Committee of experts and working groups under the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) (the highest body of the global statistical system bringing together the Chief Statisticians from all UN member states) as well as other regional statistical coordination bodies relevant to FAO’s statistical mandate.

Finally, FAO also co-organizes, in collaboration each time with a different member country, the International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS), which is held every three years under the auspices of the Committee on Agricultural Statistics of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).