The FAO Country Profiles is a multilingual[1] web portal that repackages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) information archive on its global activities in agriculture and food security in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country and thematic areas.

The organization aims to offer decision-makers, researchers and project formulators around the world a fast and reliable way to access country-specific information on national food security situations without the need to search individual databases and systems.

It aids FAO's database by providing a simple interface containing interactive maps and charts.

[2] FAO has highlighted information and knowledge sharing as priority areas in fighting hunger and achieving food security.

The classification of a country as low-income food-deficit used for analytical purposes by FAO is traditionally determined by three criteria: In order to avoid countries changing their LIFDC status too frequently - typically due to short-term, exogenous shocks - an additional factor was introduced in 2001.

[8] Over the last years, another identified area for improvement was the simplicity of the system methodology, being the resources only linked from country pages and thus, lacking real integration.

This need was addressed by starting to integrate additional data, such as, the fisheries charts or the news and events items taken from AgriFeeds.