Family Farming Knowledge Platform

Data sources

This section provides access to the most relevant databases related to family farming.

FAOSTAT is a corporate statistical database part of the organization's mission to improve data collection and dissemination for development and the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. The platform offer free and easy access to data as a time -series from 1961 for 245 countries and 35 regional areas through the most recent year available. 

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CountrySTAT is a web-based information technology system for food and agriculture statistics at national and sub national levels. It acts as a one stop center which centralizes and integrates the data coming from various sources and allows to harmonize it according to international standards while ensuring data quality and reliability. 

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The FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - Statistics offer statistical data collections, each of which is documented to highlight definitions and to specify the structure, sources, coverage, processes, intended use, etc. This is further complemented with the CWP Handbook of Fishery Statistical Standards which includes comprehensive definitions of concepts and details of standard classifications.

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FAO Forestry Department works with statistics in the following areas: global compilations of comparable statistics (annual data on production, import / export and consumption of forest products,pulp and paper production capacities, recovered paper data surveys; every fifth year report on forest resource statistics) and  country support.

AQUASTAT is FAO's global water information system, developed by the Land and Water Division. The main mandate of the programme is to collect, analyze and disseminate information on water resources, water uses, and agricultural water management, with an emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. This allows interested users to find comprehensive and regularly updated information at global, regional, and national levels.

Beginning with 1950, the FAO World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA) has been helping countries to carry out their national agricultural census at least once every decade using standard international concepts, definitions and methodology.

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The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It can generate an image on how small family farmers in both emerging and developing countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the choices they make so that policies can be informed by evidence to meet the challenge of agricultural development.

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Launched in 2010, the Gender and Land Rights Database provides policy makers, legislators and advocates of women’s land rights, with up-to-date country level information on the legal developments and factors that promote or prevent the realisation of gender-equitable land tenure.

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The RIGA database is composed of a series of constructed variables about rural and urban income generating activities created from the original data sources listed in the table below. 

The RIGA database is composed by two subsets, the household-level income aggregate or RIGA-H, and the individual wage employment dataset or RIGA-L.

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Established in the early 1980’s, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a household survey program focused on generating high-quality data, improving survey methods, and building capacity. The goal of the LSMS is to facilitate the use of household survey data for evidence-based policymaking, including on small-holder agriculture.

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The World Bank Open Data site is designed to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use.  
At the World Bank, the Development Data Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases. These databases are used by teams to prepare Country Assistance Strategies, poverty assessments, research studies and other forms of economic and sector work.

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‘IFAD’s Rural Poverty Portal contains sources and links from IFAD-supported interventions and those of other development actors on diverse aspects of rural development. Much of the information and data is relevant to smallholder and family farming and all relates to rural poverty reduction, particularly of smallholders.

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