Publications
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Guidelines on improving and using administrative data in agricultural statistics
01/02/2018
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
01/01/2018
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
01/01/2018
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
01/01/2018
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...
Guidelines for the compilation of Food Balance Sheets
02/10/2017
These Guidelines for the compilation of Food Balance Sheets have been developed under the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (Global Strategy), with...
Guidelines to enhance small-scale fisheries and aquaculture statistics through a household approach
01/03/2017
These Guidelines set out a methodology for the collection of data and information on various aspects of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, especially concerning small-scale...
Defining smallholders to monitor target 2.3. of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series /17-12
01/02/2017
Despite the central position occupied by smallholder agriculture in the current development debate, a general and operational definition of smallholders still does not exist. The...
Handbook on Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics. Guidelines for Data Collection, Compilation and Dissemination
01/02/2017
This version of the Handbook on Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics was prepared under the aegis of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural...
Handbook on remote sensing for agricultural statistics
01/11/2016
The purpose of this handbook on Remote Sensing for Agricultural Statistics is to provide guidelines on the use of remote sensing in the context of...
Guidelines for the Enumeration of Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic (Transhumant) Livestock
01/08/2016
These Guidelines for the Enumeration of Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic (Transhumant) Livestock have been produced within the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and...
