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The Division assembles, analyzes and disseminates
statistics and related meta data on world food and agriculture and
prepares annual food supply assessments in all countries. It cooperates
with FAO Members in improving the coverage, consistency and quality
of the data. It assists in development and improvement of food and
agricultural statistics by providing advice and assistance to FAO
Members and provides supervision to the statisticians in the regional
and sub-regional offices. Furthermore, the Division leads the development
of the FAOSTAT database.
Office of the Director (ESSD)
Activities
(i) Advises the Assistant Director-General, ES, and
Regional Representatives on matters relating to the Division's fields
of activity.
(ii) Ensures liaison and coordination with, and supplies
information, guidelines and support to FAO Members, UN and specialized
agencies, other global, regional and national bodies and various
segments of the Organization, including regional and sub-regional
offices.
(iii) Exercises overall management responsibility
including planning, supervising and ensuring the implementation
of the approved Programme of Work and Budget (PWB) in the Division's
field of competence. Provides budgetary and administrative oversight,
supervising staff, and coordination with other concerned units of
FAO.
(iv) Coordinates the planning of the programme of
work and ensures its technical quality and implementation through
staff and non-staff resources at all locations (Headquarters and
decentralized offices) .
(v) Guides the development of FAOSTAT database, warehouse,
and website, as well as CountrySTAT .
(vi) Ensures the appraisal of field projects, the
identification of programmes and projects in collaboration with
its decentralized structures, and the provision of specialized support,
on request from the TC Department, in the formulation or implementation
of projects, preferably through its decentralized structures. It
also ensures the technical quality of the field programme to an
acceptable standard, through the appraisal of project documents
and clearance of technical and terminal reports. Provides technical
support to WFP projects, if applicable.
(vii) Develops and provides technical guidance and
support to special action programmes.
(viii) Provides advice, assistance and support to
governmental policies and strategies in collaboration with the Policy
Assistance Division (TCA) and the regional policy assistance groups.
(ix) Provides leadership, coordination or assistance,
as required, to UN and specialized agencies, and other global, regional
and national bodies in its fields of activity.
(x) Promotes and coordinates actions in the divisional
field of activity through collaboration efforts including Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) .
(xi) Represents the Organization at technical and
inter-agency meetings in the Division's fields of activity
Basic Food and Agriculture Statistics
Service (ESSB)
The Service compiles, critically evaluates, maintains
and disseminates statistics on production, agricultural trade and
its flow by origin and destination. It prepares domestic supply
and utilization accounts for crops and livestock products, as well
as for food balances and other derived statistics. A principal aim
of the Service is to strive for comparability in its world food
and agriculture data base as the information is obtained from a
broad array of national statistics agencies following diverse data
collection methodologies.
Activities
(i) Collects, evaluates and disseminates
agricultural statistics on production, trade and domestic
utilization of food and agricultural products. Time series data in
these subject areas are released through the Internet, CDs, on
computer tapes and files, and through printed documents, which
include FAO Statistical Yearbook and national food balance sheets as well as various
CDs, viz., FAOSTAT and Trade Data CDs (WATM/WATF) .
(ii) Constructs, maintains and updates the following
data series:
(a) total and per caput index numbers of food, agricultural production,
and trade at the levels of individual countries, regions and the
world;
(b) supply/utilization accounts of food and agricultural commodities,
including both primary and processed agricultural products;
(c) country-level food balance sheets;
(d) trade matrixes derived from trading partner data to elaborate
the flow of trade among countries for economic analysis.
(iii) Solicits preliminary information on
agricultural production in the current calendar year from FAO Members
to allow for an early assessment of the food supply situation in
the various regions of the world.
(iv) Promotes international harmonization of the collection
and compilation of agricultural statistics. Supervises, evaluates
and adopts the development of relevant new concepts, definitions,
standards and statistical methods and quantitative models for analyses
and projections related to food and agricultural commodities; prepares
and edits major technical papers for discussion and publication.
(v) Promotes the use of sound statistical methodology
and the development and maintenance of sound statistical systems.
(vi) Provides technical assistance to member countries
regarding developments and implementation of electronic data processing
systems and data transmission methods for food and agricultural
statistics including implementation of new systems related to FAOSTAT
and participate in related training activities.
(vii) trains national statisticians in the construction
of supply utilization accounts and food balance sheets for the assessment
of food availability in countries and global malnutrition.
(viii) Supervises and organizes the updating of the
FAOSTAT metadata system and data quality and liaises with member
countries and other international statistical offices regarding
metadata harmonization.
(ix) Manages the FAO Statistics warehouse and lead
FAOSTAT development in FAO.
Surveys and Statistical Development
Service (ESSS)
The Service promotes the development and improvement
of national systems of food and agricultural statistics in support
of rural and agricultural policies and programmes. It assists member
countries in their statistical capacity building and promotes the
evaluation, application and dissemination of appropriate methodologies,
especially for agricultural censuses and surveys, including training,
seminars and other technical meetings. It promotes the collection
and dissemination of data in areas of special social and economic
interest. The Service provides technical support in statistical
development required by the decentralized structure, particularly
to project formulation and implementation.
Activities
(i) Promotes participation of countries in the World Census of Agriculture:
(a) prepares decennial world agricultural census programmes, including
scope, coverage, concepts, definitions, classifications, methodology
and proposed tabulations;
(b) assesses needs of countries for technical assistance in planning and conducting the World
Census of Agriculture, including data processing, analysis and dissemination
of the census results;
(ii) Promotes, in cooperation with FAO Members, decentralized
units and in partnership with other international agencies, the
development of integrated statistical systems for food and agriculture,
including surveys on agriculture, livestock, crop forecasts, etc.,
and including specialized surveys such as on the role of women in
agriculture and rural development. Such systems take account of
country's needs and resources as well as the requirements for FAOSTAT
and its CountrySTAT component.
(iii) Provides support to, and coordination of, technical
assistance to member countries in the field of food and agricultural
statistics.
(iv) Prepares studies, manuals and disseminates information on:
(a) methodology of agricultural censuses and surveys on agricultural
production, livestock, crop forecasting, etc;
(b) applications, in close consultation with other technical units
of the Organization, of new methods and techniques, such as multiple-frame
statistical methods, application of remote sensing techniques and
materials and Geographic Information Systems to improve food and
agricultural statistics;
(c) methodology and guidelines for improving the collection and
dissemination of statistics on the role of women in agriculture
and rural development, in support of FAO and member countries' policies,
specially in social and economic areas, such as food security and
poverty reduction strategies;
(d) national agricultural census results, with special emphasis
on the structural characteristics of agriculture (e.g. land use,
livestock, rural populations, etc.);
(e) national methods of collecting agricultural statistics.
(v) Organizes expert consultations, seminars, workshops,
training sessions and other technical meetings in support of the
development of food and agricultural statistics; cooperates with
regional offices on the organization of regional meetings related
to agricultural statistics for capacity building.
(vi) Coordinates the work programme of the statisticians
in regional and sub-regional offices and supports FAO regional statistical
activities; organizes regional statistical commissions, study groups
and working groups on agricultural statistics.
(vii) Serves as Secretariat for the Statistics Advisory Committee
of Experts.
Socio-Economic Statistics and
Analysis Service (ESSA)
The Service compiles and analyzes socio-economic
and agricultural statistics, food consumption and demographic data
and derives indicators pertaining to the food and nutrition situation;
prepares global studies and also compiles, evaluates and disseminates
statistics on food consumption. It also derives agricultural output
and productivity indicators, is responsible for environmental statistical
issues, and for developing statistics on agricultural inputs, land
use data, agricultural prices, production costs, investment and
development assistance to agriculture . The information in these
areas is disseminated through the maintenance of specific FAOSTAT
databases, ESS web site, yearbooks and other publications, CD-ROM
and floppy-disks.
Activities
(i) Develops the programme relating to the preparation
of economic and environmental accounts for agriculture and prepares
studies on inter-country comparisons of agricultural output and
productivity.
(ii) Compiles, evaluates and disseminates statistics
on agricultural inputs, i.e. fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery
etc, and develops the programme of environmental indicators associated
with agricultural inputs.
(iii) Compiles, evaluates and disseminates statistics
on prices received and paid by farmers; analyzes price data for
the calculation of index numbers of production and prices.
(iv) Compiles, analyzes and disseminates data pertaining
to food consumption, income and expenditure from national household
surveys.
(v) Prepares estimates and projections of the agricultural
population and labour force as part of the inter-agency collaborative
work programme within the framework of the ACC Sub-Committee on
Demographic Estimates and Projections.
(vi) Maintains databases and analyzes statistics on
investment in agriculture, development assistance to agriculture,
government expenditure on agriculture, macro-economic indicators
and role of women in agriculture.
(vi) Analyzes world-wide population, food supply and
consumption data and derives indicators of the food and nutrition
situation; and prepares related global studies, in particular, the
World Food Survey.
(vii) Contributes to UN Inter-Agency activities for
monitoring progress on social development targets; and to the harmonization
of concepts and statistical methods for the related indicators.
(viii) Provides technical assistance and training
to member countries, prepares studies, manuals and disseminates
information on methodology for data collection and compilation on
areas of its competence, Organizes national demonstration centres,
expert consultations, seminars and technical meetings for the development
of statistics in the areas of its competence.
(ix) Coordinates the work programme of the regional
and sub-regional statisticians and assists FAO regional activities;
organizes regional statistical commissions, study groups and working
groups on economic and agricultural analysis issues.
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