At the start of May 2024, the 50x2030 Initiative traveled to Sierra Leone to conduct a hands-on training focused on building capacity in designing and using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) survey tools using CSPro. This training aimed to provide national experts from Statistics Sie...

In late 2023, the 50x2030 Initiative welcomed a new partner, Cote d’Ivoire, through the signature of the Program Implementation Plan (PIP), with the objective of supporting the country in the implementation of the annual agricultural survey for the production and dissemination of more timely and comprehensive statistics at national level.

Women are key to agrifood systems transformation. Nevertheless, they face various obstacles that limit their contribution to their households and communities, including discrimination and limited access to resources.

Evidence shows...

Cambodia is making strides towards harnessing the power of agricultural survey data to inform policymaking and monitor processes. The country recently released the results of the Cambodia Agriculture Survey (CAS) 2021, providing users...

On November 27, 2023, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) organized a national dissemination workshop in Tbilisi to present key results from the Georgian Survey of Agricultural Holdings (GSAH) 2022. The workshop, organized with FAO support...

Quality data in the agricultural sector is vital for informing effective policymaking and accelerating efforts toward sustainable development within the country.

With FAO’s support, in the context of the 50x2030 Initiative, Senegal just released the key results from the implementation of the Annual Agricultural Survey (EAA) 2022-2023, the national sample survey providing statistics on household agricultural production.

On 20 December 2023 the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of the Ministry of Planning (MoP), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), and with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...

Over 400 staff from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning (NIS-MOP) have been deployed on what promises to be one of the most comprehensive data collection initiatives, the Cambodia Agriculture Survey 2023 (CAS 2023)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has kicked off a weeklong provincial level training workshop aimed at strengthening national capacity on analysis and interpretation of agricultural statistics and data.

In November 2022, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the auspices of the Government of Uganda and with the financial support of the 50x2030 Initiative to Close the Agric...

The Senegalese Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty (MAERSA) recently released microdata from the latest Annual Agricultural Survey (EAA) 2021-2022 with the support of the 50x2030 Initiative. 

Microdata or unit-level data obtained from sample surveys, censuses, and administrative systems enable analysis at granular level and are essential to formulating projects and policies, targeting interventions as well as monitoring their impact. Recognizing the potential of this type of data, ...

This week, the National Statistics Office of Georgia has published the statistical report on sustainable agriculture in the country arising from the Production Methods and Environment (PME) survey conducted in 2021 in partnership with the 50x2030 Initiative.

On December 21st, the Directorate of Analysis, Forecasting and Agricultural Statistics (DAPSA) held a national workshop for presenting the main results from the Annual Agricultural Survey (EAA) 2021-2022.

The Government of Uganda, with the support of 50x2030 Initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap, presented the results of the Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS) 2020 on November 18, 2022. 

Official statistics are essential for enabling evidence-based decision-making by government agencies, civil society, the private sector, and international organizations as well as for establishing accountability frameworks to which representative bodies are held. Yet, the production and dissemination of data alone are not enough to ensure these purposes are reached. This...

On 15 November, the Uganda Bureau for Statistics (UBOS) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), implementing partner of the 50x30 Initiative, presented the key findings of the 2019 Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS). The presentation provided an opportunity to take stock of the important statistical information generated by the AAS 2019 on the 2019 agricultural year.

Two virtual trainings, organized by FAO, have taken place on May and June 2021, in the framework of the AGRISurvey programme in Nepal. One important objective of FAO’s AGRISurvey programme is to strengthen countries dissemination practices, including ensuring the release of agricultural survey microdata to users for analysis, research, policy design and monitoring. The programme also promotes data use activities to ensure increased and improved use of survey data to inform decision-making.

In July 2019, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of Cambodia – in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), undertook the first large scale survey on the agriculture sector since the Cambodia Agriculture Census in 2013. In this endeavor, the two institutions received the technical and financial support from FAO's AGRISurvey programme – now part of the 50x2030 Initiative.