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High-Level Seminar for Government Officials on CountrySTAT
26 October 2009
26 October 2009
The aim of the Consultative Meeting, in Accra, Ghana, was to study the status of CountrySTAT activities in current project countries and to confer with Member Nations and relevant regional and international stakeholders on the further development and harmonization of agricultural statistical activities to be planned and conducted under the...
CountrySTAT Burkina Faso launched
22 October 2009
22 October 2009
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Water Resources today announced the official launch of CountrySTAT Burkina Faso, a Web-based information system that delivers improved access to better quality statistics on food and agriculture at national and subnational levels.
CountrySTAT Mali launched
25 June 2009
25 June 2009
Representatives from several national institutions attended the launch ceremony for CountrySTAT Mali in the national capital today. The ceremony was chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fousseny Mariko, and attracted attendees from Mali's food and agricultural and statistics sectors, as well as local media.
Bill Gates, FAO chief ponder anti-hunger fight
11 May 2009
11 May 2009
Bill Gates co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf met in Rome today to discuss the role of agricultural development in reducing world hunger and poverty. They also addressed the longer-term challenges to agriculture, including the impact of the global economic crisis on poor...
CountrySTAT Bhutan launched
11 March 2009
11 March 2009
The system contains regularly updated statistical data on land use, agricultural productions, exports and imports of agricultural products, agricultural inputs, commodity prices, farm machineries, and development infrastructures.