Food and Agriculture Statistics

Resources

FAO develops methodological guidelines and handbooks, technical documents and communication and outreach material related to food and agriculture statistics. FAO is the custodian of international and regional meetings organized regularly to discuss the development of food and agricultural statistics.

Global and Regional Trends in Agriculture Value Added and Gross Fixed Capital Formation - September 2018

The above analysis relies on combined information coming from the Macro-Indicators and Agricultural Capital stock databases both...

Analytical Report on Inflation in Consumer Price Index for Food - September 2018

Global and Regional Food Consumer Price Indices (CPI) measure food inflation for a group of countries at different geographical scales: sub-regional (e.g. South America),...

Guidelines for the Incorporation of a Woodfuel Supplementary Module into Existing Household Surveys in Developing Countries

Woodfuel plays a critical role in the economic and social wellbeing of people around the world. Despite its role, many developing countries lack reliable data...

Training on Compilation and Application of Environmental Extended Supply and Use Tables

July 2-5 2018, Pretoria, South Africa High-quality economic and environmental statistics are important inputs into evidence-based policy formulation and decision-making. To measure sustainability,...

Guidelines on methods for estimating livestock production and productivity

These Guidelines are intended to be a reference document providing country statisticians with technical and operational guidance on various aspects of livestock production and productivity...

AGRIS Handbook on the Agricultural Integrated Survey

This Handbook on the Agricultural Integrated Survey (AGRIS) was prepared by a core team of senior agricultural statisticians with extensive knowledge of, and several decades...

Guidelines on the measurement of harvest and post-harvest losses. Recommendations on the design of a harvest and post-harvest loss statistics system for food grains (cereals and pulses)

The Guidelines aim to present cost-effective methods for measuring food grain losses that could be used especially by developing countries to generate timely and quality...

Training of trainers workshop on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 2.a.1 ‘‘Agriculture Orientation Index (AOI) for Government Expenditures’’

27-28 March 2018 Turin, Italy. As custodian agency of SDG indicator 2.a.1, FAO is organizing a training-of-trainers workshop at the International Labour...

Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics - 27

19- 23 March 2018, Sheraton Fiji Resort, Nadi, Fiji In accordance with Article VI-1 of the FAO Constitution, the FAO...

Workshop on Open Agriculture (Statistics) Data

26 February – 1 March 2018, Machakos Country, Kenya In June 2017, several key stakeholders, including FAO, committed to provide assistance to...