Senegal

Since 2017, FAO has been providing technical and financial assistance to the Government of Senegal to expand the existing annual agricultural survey, namely the Enquete Agricole Annuelle (EAA).

A consensual roadmap was established to guide the implementation of the activities, in partnership with the Direction de l’Analyse, de la Prévision et des Statistiques Agricoles (DAPSA -Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Equipment), and in close collaboration with other national stakeholders, including the Prime Ministry and the Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD).

This collaborative effort, under the umbrella of the 50x2030 Initiative, has triggered the development of a systematic approach, ensuring the regular and efficient implementation of survey cycles, while improving the technical statistical capacity of the national staff. The programme supported DAPSA in the implementation of five cycles of the EAA, with the gradual introduction of all the rotating modules. Today, Senegal is the first and only country of the Initiative having implemented all the rotating modules of the AGRISurvey methodology.

FAO has been working with DAPSA on strengthening its agricultural statistics dissemination programme and thereby ensuring that data generated through the EAA are made available to the users in view of enabling research and supporting policy analysis, design and monitoring. This resulted in a series of statistical outputs available on-line to the public such as reports of the annual surveys, thematic statistical tables, and the cataloguing of EAA survey micro-data files on the national platforms. The release of these statistical outputs by DAPSA, which cover a wide range of essential agricultural data, provides policy makers in Senegal and national and international stakeholders with easy access to critical information for agriculture sector policy design and monitoring.

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