The meeting is part of a series of meetings planned to present the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010 to the FAO member countries in different regions.

PURPOSE
The meeting aims to disseminate among the selected member countries of FAO from Central Asia and Europe region the new World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010 which will cover the period 2006-2015. The roundtable is organized with the objective of helping the participants gain a deeper understanding of the new strategy of adopting a modular approach to data collection being advocated by FAO through this new Programme. Plans of the countries for implementing the next round of agricultural census and surveys will also be reviewed. The participants will also have an opportunity to raise technical issues of specific relevance to the region.

PARTICIPANTS
The participants of the meeting are the professional statisticians and census leaders who are likely to play a role in the planning and execution of next agricultural census in their respective countries. A total of 23 countries have been invited to the meeting. The invited countries include ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BULGARIA, CROATIA, FRANCE, GEORGIA, HUNGARY, ITALY, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, MOLDOVA, POLAND, ROMANIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SERBIA, TAJIKISTAN, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, UKRAINE, UZBEKISTAN and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

DOCUMENTS
 Information note
 Registration form
 Provisional Agenda (including list of themes) 
The World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA 2010) which is the main source document of the meeting, could be downloaded from the link: 
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0135e/a0135e00.htm

Mr. Salar Tayyib
Regional Statistician
Email: salar.tayyib@fao.org
Tel: +36.1.461.2034
Fax: +36.1.351.7029 

Ms. Eszter Zaszlos
Meeting Assistant
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia 
Budapest, Hungary.
Email: eszter.zaszlos@fao.org