WYE CITY GROUP

Third Wye Global Conference

The Wye City Group on Rural Statistics and Agricultural Household Income is hosting its third global conference on agricultural and rural household statistics. The conference will be hosted by the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and is cosponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank.

Conference objectives

Support the U.N. Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics by highlighting international needs and opportunities to improve statistics on rural and farm households, and strengthen the process of collecting and disseminating statistics on rural and farm households in OECD and developing countries; and

Review and discuss revisions to the Wye Group Handbook on Rural Households’ Livelihood and Well-Being, and preparation of a Supplement to the Handbook on issues related to agricultural and rural statistics in developing countries.

Call for papers

We invite papers that address emerging issues in agricultural and rural household data and statistics, particularly those pertaining to and/or with applications in non-OECD countries. Authors should consider the scope of the material in the current Handbook in preparing their papers, but should not feel strictly limited by either its format or content. Papers may be of any length; a mix of both shorter and standard-length papers would be ideal. A session of the conference will include brief presentations and discussions of key findings of accepted papers.

Key topics that might be examined include:

Data collection needs to support critical research on farm and rural household well-being.
International comparisons of data collection and dissemination efforts: relative strengths and weaknesses for policy analysis.
Improvements necessary to understand the linkages between agriculture and the rural economy.

Now closed.

Links to the detailed programme and conference papers are given below.

File name	Size (KB)	Date Modified
Conference detailed programme	463	20/05/2010
List of participants	78	09/06/2010
OPENING
*Welcome and U.S perspective, Kitty Smith, Administrator, Economic Research Service.* (Slides)**	783	04/06/2010
*World Bank perspective, Mark Cackler, Sector Manager, Agricultural and Rural Development, World Bank.* (Slides)**	317	04/06/2010
*Perspective from Uganda, E.S.K Muwanga-Zake, Chairman, Uganda Bureau of Statistics.* (Slides)**	215	02/06/2010
*Perspective from Brazil, Eduardo Pereira Nunes, President, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.* (Slides)**	42	04/06/2010
Handbook and Supplement on Agricultural and Rural Household Statistics
Structure of Handbook and Supplement, Graham Eele, World Bank.	2600	09/06/2010
PAPER SESSION 1: Measurement of Household Well-Being
Paper 1.1. Rethinking rural well-being and poverty, Pasquale De Muro, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre.	213	20/05/2010
*Paper 1.2. A broader perspective of measuring the well-being of rural farm and non-farm households, David Culver, AAFC.*	504	20/05/2010
*Paper 1.3. Systematic patterns of deviation between measures of income and consumption in developing countries, Alberto Zezza, FAO.*	862	20/05/2010
PAPER SESSION 2: Dynamics of Assets, Income and Consumption
*Paper 2.1. Improving the availability, quality and policy-relevance of agricultural data: The Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, Gero Carletto, World Bank.*	219	20/05/2010
*Paper 2.2. A study of rural household expenditure inequality and poverty: Sources and implications for sustainable rural communities in Nepal, Ajoy Bista, University of Guelph.*	784	21/05/2010
PAPER SESSION 3: Data Sources and Measurement of Well-Being in Latin America
*Paper 3.1. Agricultural households in the context of the household surveys and Agricultural Census in Brazil, Flavio Bolliger, IBGE.*	149	20/05/2010
*Paper 3.2. A characterization of poverty incidence and income profiles of rural households in twelve Latin American countries, Adrian Rodriguez, CEPAL.*	434	20/05/2010
*Paper 3.3. Central American comparisons of LSMS-ISA data collection and dissemination efforts, Carlos Alberto Zuniga Gonzalez, National University of Nicaragua.*	149	20/05/2010
PAPER SESSION 4: Special Topics
*Paper 4.1. The aggregation problem in its historical perspective: A summary overview, Giancarlo Lutero, ISTAT.*	183	20/05/2010
Paper 4.2. Gender issues in agricultural and rural household well-being, Mary Ahearn, Economic Research Service. Diana Tempelman, FAO	423	20/05/2010
Paper 4.3. Linkages between crude oil exploration and agricultural development in Nigeria: Implications for relevant qualitative data collection and analysis to improve rural economy, T.G. Apata, Joseph Ayo, Babalola University, Nigeria.	446	20/05/2010
*Paper 4.4. Remote rural regions in the EU and North America, Vicente Ruiz, OECD, and Lewis Dijkstra, EC*	1330	20/05/2010
WORKING GROUP SESSION
Way forward for the Wye City Group: Contribution to the Implementation Plan of the Global Strategy to Improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics , Naman Keita, FAO	143	20/05/2010

Presentations

File name	Size (KB)	Date Modified
OPENING
*Welcome and U.S perspective, Kitty Smith, Administrator, Economic Research Service.* (Slides)**	783	04/06/2010
*World Bank perspective, Mark Cackler, Sector Manager, Agricultural and Rural Development, World Bank.* (Slides)**	317	04/06/2010
*Perspective from Uganda, E.S.K Muwanga-Zake, Chairman, Uganda Bureau of Statistics.* (Slides)**	215	02/06/2010
*Perspective from Brazil, Eduardo Pereira Nunes, President, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.* (Slides)**	42	04/06/2010
Handbook and Supplement on Agricultural and Rural Household Statistics
Structure of Handbook and Supplement, Graham Eele, World Bank.	2600	09/06/2010
PAPER SESSION 1: Measurement of Household Well-Being
Paper 1.1. Rethinking rural well-being and poverty, Pasquale De Muro, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre.	213	20/05/2010
*Paper 1.2. A broader perspective of measuring the well-being of rural farm and non-farm households, David Culver, AAFC.*	504	20/05/2010
*Paper 1.3. Systematic patterns of deviation between measures of income and consumption in developing countries, Alberto Zezza, FAO.*	862	20/05/2010
PAPER SESSION 2: Dynamics of Assets, Income and Consumption
*Paper 2.1. Improving the availability, quality and policy-relevance of agricultural data: The Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, Gero Carletto, World Bank.*	219	20/05/2010
*Paper 2.2. A study of rural household expenditure inequality and poverty: Sources and implications for sustainable rural communities in Nepal, Ajoy Bista, University of Guelph.*	6100	02/06/2010
PAPER SESSION 3: Data Sources and Measurement of Well-Being in Latin America
*Paper 3.1. Agricultural households in the context of the household surveys and Agricultural Census in Brazil, Flavio Bolliger, IBGE.*	149	20/05/2010
*Paper 3.2. A characterization of poverty incidence and income profiles of rural households in twelve Latin American countries, Adrian Rodriguez, CEPAL.*	434	20/05/2010
*Paper 3.3. Central American comparisons of LSMS-ISA data collection and dissemination efforts, Carlos Alberto Zuniga Gonzalez, National University of Nicaragua.*	149	20/05/2010
PAPER SESSION 4: Special Topics
*Paper 4.1. The aggregation problem in its historical perspective: A summary overview, Giancarlo Lutero, ISTAT.*	183	20/05/2010
Paper 4.2. Gender issues in agricultural and rural household well-being, Mary Ahearn, Economic Research Service. Diana Tempelman, FAO	423	20/05/2010
Paper 4.3. Linkages between crude oil exploration and agricultural development in Nigeria: Implications for relevant qualitative data collection and analysis to improve rural economy, T.G. Apata, Joseph Ayo, Babalola University, Nigeria.	446	20/05/2010
*Paper 4.4. Remote rural regions in the EU and North America, Vicente Ruiz, OECD, and Lewis Dijkstra, EC*	1330	20/05/2010
WORKING GROUP SESSION
Way forward for the Wye City Group: Contribution to the Implementation Plan of the Global Strategy to Improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics , Naman Keita, FAO	143	20/05/2010

WYE CITY GROUP

Third Wye Global Conference

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24 - 25 May 2010

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