Workshop on Strategic Planning for Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics in the Pacific Island Countries
Objective
The overall objective of the Workshop is to improve the collection and use of agricultural and rural statistics in the Pacific. This will be done by bringing together key stakeholders to take stock of the current situation of agricultural and fisheries statistics, with a view to developing a shared vision on scope and coverage of a proposed Pacific Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics.
It will also share the latest methodological developments brought out by FAO with the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics and the World Programme of Census of Agriculture 2020. Recent work carried out by Pacific countries on agricultural and fisheries statistics will also be presented.
Formal Opening
Honoured Speaker
Presentations
Session 1: Statistics for policy making on agricultural and rural sectors in Pacific Countries
Linking Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics with Policy
Session 2: Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics
An overview of Global Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Statistics and the Regional Action Plan
Global Strategy research outputs and new methodologies
Session 3: Strategic Planning for Agricultural and Rural Statistics
Overview of work in Pacific Countries and experience in other Asian countries
Session 4: Assessing country capacity to produce agricultural and rural (including fisheries) statistics
Capacity assessment framework for the Global Strategy and findings of the FAO 2011 baseline survey
Session 5: Agricultural census as the main pillar of agricultural statistics
New features of the FAO World Programme of Census and Agricuture 2020
The Global Strategy and the Planning of an Agricultural Census
An example of Integrated Crop, Livestock, Fish and Handicraft Census - Tonga
Session 6: Recent global and regional advancements in agriculture and fisheries statistics
Recent developments in Agriculture Integrated Surveys (AGRIS)
Collecting fishery data through agricultural census
Fishery data collection in the Pacific
Use of Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing in Pacific
Dissemination of statistics/POPGis
Use of household income and expenditure surveys (HIES) for agriculture and fisheries statistics
Population census for agricultural and fisheries statistics
HIES for food security analysis
Session 7: Linkage between NSDS, SPARS, TYPSS, and Pacific-SPARS
Work of PARIS21 for developing NSDS in Pacific countries
Integrating agriculture into National Statistical Systems: Connection between NSDS and SPARS
Session 8: Group Work on Pacific Agriculture and Fishery Statistics Strategy
Critical data gaps, constraints and challenges
Main objective of a regional strategy
Key activities for a regional strategy
Main steps for development of a regional strategy
List of Participants
Appendix 6.3 - Summary of Presentations
Media
FAO - Better Pacific Fisheries and agriculture statistics to help improve livelihoods of millions
SPC - Nadi Meeting aims for progress on pacific agriculture and fisheries statistics
Fiji Sun - 13 Pacific Island Countries Gather for Workshop
Fiji Sun - New Rural Development and Agriculture Programme to Launch in 2016
Fiji Times - Focus on statistics
The Jet - Government Officials to discuss progress on Pacific agriculture and fisheries statistics in Nadi