African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS), 29th Session

The African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS) is a statutory body of FAO and meets every two years. AFCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of the African continent, who are responsible for the development of agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They review and exchange ideas on the state of food and agricultural statistics in the continent and advise member countries on the development of their agricultural statistical systems within FAO's Programme of Work and Budget for Africa.

The Twenty-nineth Session will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia from 24 to 28 November 2025. The forthcoming Session of the Commission will discuss items that are of direct relevance to the monitoring of agrifood system transformation in Africa, enhancing clarity and standardization in food insecurity and nutrition statistics, implementation of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture and related upcoming updates in the operational guidelines, among others.

As before, participants to the Commission’s meeting are expected to be sponsored by their respective governments.

 

Information and Meeting Documents

Document Symbol	Title	Language
RAF/AFCAS/29/INF1	Information Note	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/INF2	Final Programme	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/INF3	List of Participants	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/INF4	Report of the 29th Session of African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS-29)	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/INF5	Final Recommendations of the 29th Session of African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS-29)	ENG|FRE

 

 

Papers and Presentations for the Main Event / AFCAS-29 Meetings

Document Symbol	Title	Paper	Presentation
RAF/AFCAS/29/3.1	Achievements of key recommendations of the 28th AFCAS		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/3.2	Summary of response rates to FAO questionnaires for Africa	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/4.1	Implementation status of the 50x2030 Initiative in Africa		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/4.2	Lessons learned from the design and implementation of national agricultural survey program in Burkina Faso		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/4.3	Implementation of Agricultural Survey Program through the 50x2030 Initiative in Liberia		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/4.4	Design and implementation of agricultural survey program in Zambia		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/4.5	Future funding perspectives of the 50x2030 Initiative		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/5.1	FAO technical assistance on Food Balance Sheet (FBS) in Africa		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/5.2	Strengthening Food Balance Sheets to Support Evidence-based Agrifood System Policies in Africa	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/5.3	AfDB technical assistance on Food Balance Sheet (FBS) compilation in Africa		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/5.4	Lessons learnt and key results from 2024 national FBS of Zimbabwe		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/5.5	Lessons learnt and key results from 2023 national FBS of Rwanda		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/6.1	Status of ongoing agricultural census projects in Africa under FAO support		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/6.2	Key results and lessons learned from 2024 Agricultural Census of Mauritius		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/6.3	Key results and lessons learned from 2024 Agricultural and Livestock Census of Burundi		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/6.4	AfDB work on agricultural census in Africa		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/6.5	Update on the 2030 World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA 2030)		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/7.1	Strengthening Food Security Statistics in Africa: Clarifying Acute and Chronic Dimensions to Support Action		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/7.2	Leveraging the newly established Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) statistical domain		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/7.3	Improving the monitoring of the Cost of a Healthy Diet globally	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/8.1	Gap Analysis and Solutions on EO Requirements and Field Data Collection Protocols in Agricultural Surveys: Case Studies from Senegal and Uganda	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/8.2	Use of EO data to integrate crop type mapping and yield forecasting in Zimbabwe		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/8.3	Use of Area frame methodology in estimating the area-based indicators and crop type mapping in Rwanda		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/8.4	Area frame sampling for agricultural statistics in Tunisia		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/8.5	Sen4Stat: a toolbox for leveraging the use of Earth Observation data for improved agricultural statistics and its connection with FAO EOSTAT programme		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/9.1	Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI): New approaches for long-term sustainability of R&D data collection	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/9.2	New approach for ASTI data collection : Experiences & Lessons learned in Côte d’Ivoire		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/9.3	Institutionalization of ASTI in a large National Agricultural Research System: the experience of Nigeria		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/9.4	ASTI Regional analysis and CAADP targets reporting by CORAF		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/10.1	Progress in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicators reporting	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/10.2	Overview on SDG 2.4.1 proxy indicator methodology	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/10.3	New SDG 2.2.4 indicator – Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W)	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/10.4	Progress in the monitoring and reporting of women’s land rights through SDG Indicators 5.a.2 and 5.a.1		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/10.5	Update on SDG indicators 5.a.1 and 5.a.2 data reporting in Morocco		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/11.1	Fishery and aquaculture statistics, issues and activities to support the Blue transformation		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/11.2	Insights from National Fisheries Information System of Kenya		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/11.3	Innovations in Forest Products Statistics – Global and Africa snapshots		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/11.4	Global Forest Resources- Assessment 2025: Statistical process and key findings		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/12.1	Introduction to agrifood systems indicators		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/12.2	Computing greenhouse emissions	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/12.3	Methods for computing employment in agrifood systems	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/12.4	Estimating output value added from the world’s agrifood systems	ENG|FRE	ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/13.1	UNECA statistical capacity building programmes for member countries		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/13.2	Overview of AFRISTAT agricultural statistics capacity building initiatives		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/13.3	Overview of EAC agricultural statistics capacity building programme		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/13.4	Overview of COMESA agricultural statistics capacity building programme		ENG|FRE
RAF/AFCAS/29/13.5	Why current Agriculture Routine Data Systems (CARDS) is important in Tanzania		ENG |FRE