The report presents the actual implementing strategy, the results of the technical assistance activities in beneficiary countries and the main lessons learned from the overall process of the Accelerated technical assistance Plan implemented under the responsibility of the Global Office in Africa.
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Measuring vegetable crops area and production: Technical report on a pilot survey in two districts of Ghana
The Report introduces and discusses the problem of measuring area and yield of vegetable crops, by exploring and testing methods such as farmer inquiry and objectives measurement and to propose a methodology for the production of data and statistics. A pilot test has been performed in two selected districts in Ghana to assess the methodology and the workability of the methods.
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Potential use of Blockchain for Livestock Statistics in Vietnam
This technical report is the result of a study conducted in close collaboration with the General Statistical Office of Vietnam (GSO), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (MARD), TE-FOOD and the Australian Commonwealth Research Centre (CSIRO-Data 61). The objectives were to contribute to a better understanding of the applications of blockchain technology and its implications for the official statisticians in the livestock sector, to analyse the feasibility and the sustainability of using information available on the blockchain from an official statistical perspective, on the basis of the systems put in place by TE-FOOD in the pig sector in Vietnam and to make recommendations, discuss possible improvements and propose a further research agenda.
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Agricultural Master Sampling Frames in Practice: Lessons learned from international field experiments and case studies
This technical report on Agricultural Master Sampling Frames: Lessons learned from international field experiments and case studies compiles results from a series of experiments carried out by the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) in 2016 and 2017, in Brazil, Nepal and Rwanda.
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Case-Studies on the measurement of productivity and efficiency in agriculture
The present document presents two case-studies, to illustrate the process of compilation of productivity indicators: i) the calculation of labour productivity based on data collected at farm-level, that is based on a pilot survey in Zambia, and ii) the construction of aggregate and country-level information on agricultural productivity from aggregate time-series.
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Pilot tests of an international definition of urban – rural territories. Summary report
The Technical Report aims to develop an international definition of rural areas and indicators of rural development. This summary report pilot tests were analytical desktop assessments carried out in seven countries with the cooperation of the National Statistical Offices (Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Malaysia, Pakistan and the United States of America).
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Field Test Report on Agri-environmental Indicators (AEIs): towards a Sustainable Agriculture
This technical report presents the results of a field test implemented in Costa Rica as part of the research activities planned within the frame of GSARS research line “SUST-3: Data collection methods for agri-environmental indicators”.
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Measuring inadequate employment in Kenya: field test report for Decent Work within an agricultural context in developing countries
This technical report presents different dimensions of employment and underemployment within agricultural households in three communities in Kenya.
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Final technical report on the development of Master Sampling Frames (MSF) for fishery and aquaculture statistics
This final technical report presents guidance for constructing a Master Sampling Frame (MSF) to use for surveys of fisheries or aquaculture.
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Grain Stocks Estimation through Secondary Data sources-The Case of Zambia
The overall goal of the study is to test the methodology and the approach developed by the Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS) project, which outlined the use of available data to estimate certain critical variables on food balance sheets, especially Carry-in Stocks (also called Carry-over stocks), and Production.
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Measuring Decent Work and Youth Employment in Agriculture. Methodological issues and gaps
The objective of this technical report is to serve as the foundation for developing a generalized cost-effective methodology to collect information on DW and youth employment in agriculture.
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Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics. Methodology for definition and spatial delimitation of rural areas
This Technical Report aims to present the methodology implemented for the spatial delimitation and production of statistics of rural areas and the results obtained.