The National Institute of Statistics (NIS), in collaboration with the M...

Today marks an important milestone for Liberia’s agricultural data system, as the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) disseminated key results from the 2024 Annual Agricultural Survey and the Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition Survey.

On 2–3 December 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) convened a workshop in Nairobi to share experiences and lessons learned from integrating the women’s empowerment and ...

The Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has officially released the Annual Agricultural Sample Survey (AASS) 2023/24 Report and related microdata, including the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition (WEN) dataset.

The 2023/24 AASS is the second in a series of annual agricul...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are pleased to announce the official release of the National Agricultural Sample Survey (NASS) 2023 report and its accompanying anonymised microdata. 

Sierra Leone is setting a powerful example in agricultural statistics. Supported by the 50x2030 Initiative, and with the technical assistance of FAO, Statistics Sierra Le...

Niger has reached an important milestone with the release of the public use data from the 2024 Agricultural Loss Survey (2024 Enquête sur les pertes agricoles), now accessible via the INS Central Data Catalogue:

Data collection for the 2025 Extended National Agricultural Survey (E-NASS) is now underway across The Gambia, beginning with post-planting visits that include household surveys and community-level interviews.

Côte d’Ivoire has launched data collection for its 2025–2026 integrated agricultural survey, under the framework of the 50x2030 Initiative. This marks the second round of the country’s multi-year program to strengthen agricultural data systems and produce timely, high-quality statistics across the crop, livestock, fisheries, and forestry sectors. 

Benin launched the data collection activities for the 2025 Annual Agricultural Survey (ESA 2025) on Saturday 30th August.

Niger has officially launched the first passage of its Enquête Prévision et Estimation des Récoltes (EPER) 2025, marking a strategic step in strengthening national agricultural statistics.

Conducted with the technical support of FAO under the 50×2030 Initiative, this CAPI-based...

A man sits down with the head of a household, often another man, in the Fujoni district of Zanzibar, an island region of Tanzania. Working his way through a detailed questionnaire, he asks an array of questions about agriculture and the family farm: what kind of crops they grow, whether they practice crop rotation and how much produce they sell on the local market. 

This video shows the process and impact of the integration of the WEN module - a component aimed at measuring women’s empowerment and nutrition - during the data collection activities in Zanzibar, Tanzania – one out of three countries where WEN is being implemented.

Burkina Faso has reached a significant milestone in advancing agricultural statistics and enhancing data availability for policy development with the release of microdata from the Enquête Permanente Agricole (EPA) 2023-2024.

This achievement, supported by the Food and Agricultu...

Sierra Leone has reached a significant milestone in its efforts to improve the availability of national agricultural data with the release of the 2023 Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS) microdata. AAS 2023 marks the first round of annual agricultural surveys conducted in the country and is a cru...

On March 20^th, during the 69^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, FAO and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) co-organized a side event focused on Measuring Women's Empowerment in Large-Scale Surveys.

The event p...

Reducing post-harvest losses is a key priority for Niger, as it can significantly contribute to enhancing national food security and strengthening the entire agricultural and agrifood value chain.

Efforts to address agricultural losses are underway at regional level, with the African Uni...

Two four-wheel drive vehicles slither to a halt for the umpteenth time. The route they’re travelling, southeast of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, is one of the country’s major highways. But the seasonal rains have transformed it into a gooey morass of reddish-brown mud.

More and better data are crucial in supporting sound policy decision-making for sustainable development. However collecting statistical data is not easy, due to adverse weather events or difficulty in accessing remote locations. Watch the video and see how FAO is providing support in the producti...