Guidelines and handbooks

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...

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...

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...

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...

Guidelines on international classifications for agricultural statistics
01/12/2015
These Guidelines were developed within the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics. In particular, the publication was compiled by the...

Handbook on Master Sampling Frames for Agricultural Statistics - Frame Development, Sample Design and Estimation
01/12/2015
This Handbook on Master Sampling Frames for Agriculture has been prepared within the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (Global...