Guidelines and handbooks
Guidelines on data collection for national statistics on forest products
03/12/2018
Forests provide a range of goods and services that benefit the livelihoods and well-being of people and play a significant role in economies around the...
Guidelines for collecting data for sex-disaggregated and gender-specific indicators in national agricultural surveys - 2nd edition
03/12/2018
Gender equality is a central theme of the international development agenda and, correspondingly, the elimination of discrimination against women is an aim of many countries....
Guidelines on defining rural areas and compiling indicators for development policy
03/12/2018
These Guidelines aim to support decisions about rural development policy by offering concepts and methods to improve the quality, availability, and use of statistics. The...
Guidelines for development of a classification system related to Farm Typology
03/12/2018
The present Guidelines on Farm Typology were developed by the GSARS to address the needs of countries at different stages of development, using the experience...
Guidelines for measuring youth employment and Decent Work in agriculture within developing countries
03/12/2018
Decent Work, a term coined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1999, is broadly defined as work that is done freely without coercion or...
Handbook on crop statistics: improving methods for measuring crop area, production and yield
03/12/2018
This Handbook is the result of a research project undertaken within the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), a capacity-building initiative in...
Guidelines for the measurement of productivity and efficiency in agriculture
01/10/2018
These Guidelines are the result of a research project undertaken within the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), a statistical capacity-building initiative...
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...
