CountrySTAT's vision

Accessible, high-quality, nationally owned statistics on food and agriculture, supporting the worldwide drive to reduce extreme poverty and hunger.

The longer-term objective for CountrySTAT is to achieve global coverage. CountrySTAT is currently seeking additional partners and donors to help reach its full potential, serving countries on all continents and creating a reliable source of international data on food and agriculture.

Our mission

Our mission is to build up an effective programme for handling interconnected statistical information and visual indicators on food and agriculture at subnational, national and international levels, for analysis and evidence-based policy making. In practice, it acts as a one stop center which centralizes and integrates the data coming from various sources and allows to harmonize it according to international standards while ensuring data quality and reliability.

Principal aims

• Support country expertise by providing the methodology, classification and coding system that allows them to collect, standardize and harmonize data coming from various local sources, thus improving data quality and facilitating data reconciliation.
• Promote partnerships between various statistical institutions within countries, including national statistical offices and other statistical authorities – establishing a one-stop centre for accessing existing food and agriculture statistics in the country.
• Assist countries in integrating and organizing national data to make them comparable at the international level.
• Facilitate the analysis of data for supply utilization accounts and food balance sheets, in order to obtain more derived indicators relevant to nutrition, food and agriculture.
• Implement a programme that facilitates electronic data collection from countries, reducing the burden on these countries in completing numerous questionnaires.
• Develop a statistical information system containing data and metadata relevant to food and agricultural policy.
• Help countries disseminate data through communication and information tools at national and subnational levels.