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7th Regional Steering Committee meeting highlights progress and achievements in Asia-Pacific

The seventh Regional Steering Committee (RSC) meeting of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics and the Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on the implementation of technical assistance activities were held on 15-17 November in Bangkok (Thailand).

Global Office supports Botswana in better estimating agricultural cost of production

Most of the farmers in Botswana benefit from government support through the provision of subsidised agricultural inputs.

Global Strategy issues Handbook on Remote Sensing for Agricultural Statistics

In the context of the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics, remote sensing has been identified as a point of reference for Master Sampling Frames and methodological improvements in design and estimation terms, as a prime contributor to the localization and geocoding of the sampling units, as a way to achieve sustainability and as a core data provider for indicators linked to land uses and covers.
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Global Office releases training material to build basic knowledge and skills in agricultural statistics

This month, the Global Office has released some training material aimed at building and improving data producers’ knowledge and skills in agricultural statistics.
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Global Office hosts Expert Meeting on Agri-Environmental Indicators

On 13-14 September 2017, the Global Office conducted an expert meeting on Agri-environmental indicators.
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Food Balance Sheet Workshop in Dakar – Television Coverage

Research and capacity development go hand in hand for the “Measuring Decent Work Study” in Kenya

During June and July 2017, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and the Global Office (GO) implemented a study comparing different methods to measure decent work in rural areas. read more

Sri Lanka Government staff received training on new guidelines and tools for preparing Food Balance Sheets developed by Global Strategy

As part of its technical assistance activities for 2017, the Global Strategy (GS) teams from Rome and Asia-Pacific, with the support of the Food Balance Sheets team of the FAO Statistics Division, organized a one-week training workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the newly developed GS guidelines and tools for compiling food balance sheets.
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Global Strategy and CATIE sign an agreement to improve agri-environmental data

Agri-environmental statistics are still at an early stage of advancement in most countries, particularly in developing ones. read more

Global Office works with Botswana to produce better livestock statistics

Livestock statistics appear as an area where many countries lack appropriate data collection methods, estimation strategies and effective methods for the compilation of indicators. read more

Improving Cape Verde’s agricultural statistics system thanks to new tools and methods developed by the Global Strategy

In the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between AFRISTAT and FAO (Global Strategy) in November 2016, a joint mission of 3 people visited Praia (Cape Verde) on 5-11 June 2017. read more

Global Strategy presents research topics on new methods to improve agricultural statistics at 61st World Statistics Congress

The Global Office of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) has been developing a number of research topics on new, cost-effective and sound methods to enhance the quality and reliability of agricultural statistics in developing countries.
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