The Programme of Work (2024–2027) of the Committee will be discussed at the UN Statistical Commission at its 55th session.

The proposed Programme of Work focuses on three areas: (i) food security and nutrition statistics, (ii) the World Programme of the Census of Agriculture 2030, and (iii) Earth observation data for agricultural statistics and disaster impact monitoring and reduction.

For the first area of work "food security and nutrition statistics", it is proposed to (1) develop a multilaterally agreed definition of Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Data, (2) establish a minimum set of core FSN data with references to their respective recommended methodologies and indicators, and (3) develop guidance to help countries prioritize the collection of relevant FSN data.

For the second area of work on the 2030 Round of the World Census of Agriculture (WCA), it is proposed to create a dedicated UN-CEAG task team to support the development of FAO Guidelines on the WCA 2030, to be endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission at its 57th session.

Finally, for the third area of work on Earth observation data, the UN-CEAG proposes to continue its work on the use of EO data for agricultural statistics in collaboration with the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD). The joint task team is discussing the possibility of investigating methods and tools for (1) the integrated use of Radar and Optical satellite images to produce crop type and crop yield maps and monitor and reduce disaster impacts; (2) the use of drones to collect in-situ data; (3) the enhancement of time series analysis of satellite images for the development of country-level and global-level Satellite Image Data Cubes;  and (4) the data protection and sharing framework for in-situ data. The joint task team also aims to make data, tools and information generated in its last programme of work more accessible to NSOs and statistical systems. Finally, the group suggests contributing to the improvement of EO training curricula.

The main achievements of the Committee so far are as follows:

• Processing food consumption data from Household Consumption and expenditure surveys(to be presented at the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) on Land Use for Agriculture Purposes (2024) (Checklist, Scoring, Final scores) (to be presented at the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) on Crops & Livestock Statistics (2024) (Checklist, Scoring, Final scores) (to be presented at the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) on Agriculture Producer Price Statistics (2024) (Checklist, Scoring, Final scores) (to be presented at the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• Trusted methods: Lessons Learned and Recommendations from Select Earth Observation Applications on Agriculture (2022) (presented at the fifty-third session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• Assessing a proxy for the variability in usual dietary energy intake with household-level data (2022) (presented at the fifty-third session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• Annex - Assessing a proxy for the variability in usual dietary energy intake with household-level data. Calculation of MDER and XDER (2022) (presented at the fifty-third session of the United Nations Statistical Commission [document under revision])
• Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys and the prevalence of nutrient inadequacy (2022) (endorsed by the fifty-third session of the United Nations Statistical Commission)
• Food data collection in household consumption and expenditure surveys. Guidelines for low- and middle-income countries (endorsed by the forty-ninth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission);
• Methodological proposal on indicator 2.4.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (endorsed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators in 2018):
• Methodology for Computing and Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 (endorsed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators in 2018);
• Guidelines on defining rural areas and compiling indicators for development policy (endorsed by the fifty-first session of the United Nations Statistical Commission).

E/CN.3/2020/13, para. 67

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