Publications
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Guidelines for the Incorporation of a Woodfuel Supplementary Module into Existing Household Surveys in Developing Countries
01/08/2018
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...
Guidelines on methods for estimating livestock production and productivity
01/06/2018
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
01/05/2018
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)
02/04/2018
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...
Nitrogen inputs to agricultural soils from livestock manure. New statistics
01/02/2018
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
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...
