Actualités

Badan Pusat Statistics (BPS) Indonesia regularly conducts a Crops Cutting Survey to estimate the yield per hectare for food crops. Over the last 4 decades, this survey was conducted using traditional Paper and Pen Interviews (PAPI) methods. read more

The AMIS project, in collaboration with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, organized an international seminar on “Approaches and Methodologies for Crop Monitoring and Production Forecasting” in Dhaka (Bangladesh) from 25 – 26 May 2016. read more

Pragmatic policies and selective government interventions to alleviate extreme rural poverty require that the living standards and well-being of rural dwellers be measured and monitored. Nevertheless, the majority of developing countries lack the ability and capability to produce sufficient and consistent factual data required for evidence-based policies aimed at reducing rural poverty. read more

The objective of this research project conducted in the framework of the Global Strategy and in close collaboration with the FAO-ESS division is to provide guidance to countries on mainstreaming sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators in agricultural statistics, with a special focus on large-scale agricultural surveys and agricultural modules included in other surveys. read more

The Pacific Strategic Action Plan for Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics (P-SPAFS) came a step closer to full establishment after the Plan’s Working Group met for the first time in Suva, Fiji on 11-12 April 2016. read more

As Sri Lanka advances toward completion of its first Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS), it has worked in concert with the Global Strategy Regional Office in Asia Pacific to initiate a number of technical assistance activities that inform and complement SPARS.  read more

The African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tunisia organized a regional training on Agricultural Cost of Production (AgCoP) statistics for French speaking countries, in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 7 to 11 March 2016. read more

From March 7 to 8, in Jakarta, Indonesia, 47 participants from 11 countries in Asia and two regional bodies (Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre) attended the Regional Workshop towards Improving Small-Scale Fisheries and Aquaculture Data Collection. read more

The 12^th meeting of the GSC took place on the 23^rd of February 2016 via teleconference. The meeting started with a presentation on the decisions of the latest Global Executive Board Meeting, during which the 2016 work plan and budget for Asia-Pacific were presented and endorsed. read more

The 26^th session of the Asia Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) devoted its deliberations to tackling some of the region’s most pressing challenges in improving agricultural statistics, while also providing a forum for countries to share knowledge and good practices. read more

The 5^th meeting of the Global Office’s Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) was held on 28-29 January 2016 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. read more