Regional Roundtable on the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)
18-22 September 2017, Nairobi, Kenya
FAO, with the assistance of the FAO Representative in Kenya, organized the above meeting for FAO member countries in Anglophone African region. The meeting was part of a series of regional meetings to present the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 to the FAO member countries in different parts of the world.
Purpose
The Roundtable focused on the new features and innovations included in the new World Programme for Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020). Additionally, the meeting aimed to disseminate among the selected member countries of FAO the new WCA 2020 which will cover the period 2016-2025. The Roundtable was part of FAO statistics division capacity development activities to strengthen the knowledge and skills of national staff in member countries in charge of planning and conducting agricultural censuses.
Participants
The participants of the meeting were 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 24 countries have been invited to the meeting, including Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra-Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Technical presentations
TS1 - Overview of the New Features of the WCA 2020
TS2 - Roundtable on countries census plans, approaches and methodologies
TS3 - Main steps in developing and implementing the census of agriculture
TS4a - Methodological considerations
TS4b - Linking Population and Housing Censuses with Agricultural Censuses
TS4c - Agricultural Integrated Survey (AGRIS): Rationale and Methodology
TS5 - Theme 1: Identification and general characteristics
TS6 - Theme 2: Land
TS7 - Theme 3:Irrigation
TS8 - Theme 4: Crops
TS9 - Theme 5: Livestock
TS10 - Theme 6 & 7: Agricultural practices and services
TS12 - Theme 9: Work on holding
TS13 - Theme 11: Household Food Security
TS14 - Theme 12 & 14: Aquaculture and Fisheries
TS15 - Theme 13 & 15: Forestry and Environment (GHG) emissions
TS16 - Community-Level Data
TS17 - Census tabulation, archiving and dissemination
TS18a - Operational issues: Legal and Institutional framework
TS18b - Operational issues: Census Communication and publicity
TS18c - Operational issues: Use of Technology for field data capture and compilation
Country presentations
TS2 - Canada statistics-key highlights from the 2016 census and vision for 2021
TS4a1 - Canada census of agriculture 2016-key methodological consideration
TS4a2 - Mozambique agricultural and livestock census 2009-2011
TS4b - Seychelles agricultural census 2011-seychelles experience
TS5a - Theme 1: identification and general characteristics-Canada's experience
TS5b - Botswana agricultural census 2015-identification and general characteristics
TS6a - Theme 2: land-Canada's experience
TS6B - South Africa census of commercial agriculture 2007-land characteristics
TS6c - Botswana agricultural census 2015-land characteristics
TS7 - Census theme 3-irrigation
TS8a - South Africa census of commercial agriculture 2007-crops
TS8b - Tanzania national census of agriculture 2007/2008-crops
TS9a - Census theme 5-livestock
TS9b - Namibia census of agriculture 2013/2014-methodology and theme 3: livestock
TS10 - Tanzania census of agriculture 2007/2008-Agricultural services and practices
TS11b - Seychelles agricultural census 2011-census theme 8 and 10
TS12 - Gambia agricultural census 2011/2012-work on the holding
TS13 - Malawi national census of agriculture 2006/2007-household food security
TS14 - Namibia census of agriculture 2013/2014-aquaculture and fisheries
TS15 - Rwanda national agricultural survey 2008
TS16 - Lesotho community level data 2009/2010
TS17a - Tabulation, archiving and dissemination
TS17c - Tabulation, archiving and dissemination-Kenyan experience
TS18a1 - Lesotho agricultural census 2009/2010-legal and institutional framework
TS18a2 - Nigeria national agriculture sample census
TS18b1 - census of agriculture 2016-communication outreach
TS18b2 - Ghana experience in census of agriculture-communication and publicity
TS19b - South Sudan data collection methods for statistics on structural aspects of agriculture
TS19c - Swaziland census of agriculture 2012/2013- agriculture census preparation and methodology
TS19d - Zambia data collection methods for structural aspects of agriculture