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.

Phnom Penh, 5 February 2021 – On the 9th of February 2021, 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 support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), will organize the Cambodia Inter-censal Agriculture Survey 2019 (CIAS 2019) Report Release Workshop.

The agricultural sector is one of the pillars of Senegal's economy with an estimated contribution of 15 percent to the GDP in 2018 and a significant portion of the population in rural area (60%) which continues to depend directly on it for their livelihoods.

FAO's AGRISurvey programme – now part of the 50x2030 Initiative –  provides financial and technical assistance to the Uganda Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS) administered by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). In the last three years, AGRISurvey has introduced significant enhancements to the AAS in the domains of survey design, use of technology, data analysis, dissemination and use of data and key results.

FAO, through its AGRISurvey programme, joined forces with Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning (NIS) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) to organize the Training of Trainers (ToT) for the Cambodia Agricultural Survey 2020.

The agricultural sector has been the backbone of the Uganda’s economy for decades, employing over 80 percent of the rural population and about 64.3 percent of the working population. Agriculture is a source of food, raw materials for industries and foreign exchange given the many agricultural exports. The Agricultural Sector Strategic Plan (ASSP), the National Development Plan (NDP) II, and now the NDP III identify agriculture as one of the priority sectors for investment.

Following the launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s projects to support an annual survey of agriculture in late March 2019, they saw the data collection commenced since the start of July and set to be finished this week.