Food and Agriculture Statistics

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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.

Nitrogen inputs to agricultural soils from livestock manure. New statistics

This report presents a nutrient input analysis of the FAOSTAT livestock manurenitrogen dataset and complements it with information from GLEAM. The FAOSTAT Nitrogen inputs to...

Guidelines on improving and using administrative data in agricultural statistics

This document is mainly based on the findings of the ADMIN project of the Global Strategy, implemented by the School of Statistics and Planning/College of...

World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020. Volume 2. Operational guidelines

FAO has supported member countries to carry out their national agricultural censuses since 1945, through the development and dissemination of international standards, concepts, definitions and...

Optimizing the use of ADePT-Food Security Module for Nutrient Analysis

This document describes the updates introduced in ADePT-FSM version 3 to improve its capacity for nutritional analysis by adding new indicators and refining methodologies. It...

Guidelines for the Integrated Survey Framework

The growing demand by policymakers and decision makers for statistics based on information that is interlinked in economic, social, and environmental aspects requires the large-scale...

Global Consultation on the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020), Volume 2 Operational Guidelines

The FAO Statistics Division (FAO ESS) has recently prepared the final draft of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020), Volume...

African Statistics Day 2017

Every year, on 18 November, African countries celebrates the African Statistics Day (ASD) with the objective of raising public awareness about the importance of...

African Commission on Agricultural Statistics - 25

13 – 17 November 2017, Entebbe, Uganda AFCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of the African continent, who are responsible for...

Regional Roundtable on the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020)

FAO, in collaboration with the FAO Sub-regional Office for the Pacific Islands (FAOSAP)organized the above meeting for FAO member countries in the Pacific region. The...

FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA working group on agricultural and livestock statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean. 28th session.

28th Session | 24-26 October 2017, Quito, Ecuador   Documents - Agenda - Information note