Official statistics are essential for enabling evidence-based decision-making by government agencies, civil society, the private sector, and international organizations as well as for establishing accountability frameworks to which representative bodies are held. Yet, the production and dissemination of data alone are not enough to ensure these purposes are reached. This...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) Foundation organized a final workshop in November 2021 to sum up the results of the implementation of FAO’s Agricultural Integrated Survey programme (AGRISurvey) in Armenia. The online workshop was...

This webinar will focus on microdata dissemination programs with application to agriculture data with the aim to support the National Statistical Offices and line Ministries’ efforts toward unlocking access to agriculture survey data.

On 15 November, the Uganda Bureau for Statistics (UBOS) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), implementing partner of the 50x30 Initiative, presented the key findings of the 2019 Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS). The presentation provided an opportunity to take stock of the important...

Cambodia has made two important strides towards improving agricultural and rural data collection under the 50x2030 Initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap. First, ahead of nationwide data collection for the 2021 Cambodia Agriculture Survey (CAS), the country conducted a 9-day Training of Trainers to boost the understanding and expertise...

FAO’s AGRISurvey Programme provides technical assistance to the Government of Costa Rica to improve and expand its national agricultural survey, the Encuesta Nacional Agropecuaria (ENA).

The annual survey, designed and developed by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) collects data on crops, forestry products, flowers and livestock on a...

Two virtual trainings, organized by FAO, have taken place on May and June 2021, in the framework of the AGRISurvey programme in Nepal.   

One important objective of FAO’s AGRISurvey programme is to strengthen countries dissemination practices, including ensuring the release of agricultural survey microdata to users for analysis, research, policy...

In July 2019, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of Cambodia – in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), undertook the first large scale survey on the agriculture sector since the Cambodia Agriculture Census in 2013. In this endeavor, the two institutions received the technical and...

From 1 to 5 March 2021, FAO provided a virtual training to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) of Costa Rica on microdata dissemination with special focus on Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC). The training was provided on request of INEC to help unlock the microdata of the annual...