The Ministry of Agriculture announced today the official launch of CountrySTAT Guinea-Bissau.CountrySTAT is a web-based system for the dissemination of official statistics on food and agriculture at regional national and local levels. Its purpose is to centralize, harmonize, standardize, integrate and validate data on food and agriculture from different sources.CountrySTAT...

In every country that is partner of CountrySTAT, a so-called Technical Working Group meets regularly to review data quality. Representatives of the key statistical agencies harmonize data and make it coherent and consistent with FAOSTAT before uploading new data to the system. From April 15 to April 19, the Permanent Secretariat...

In order to prepare the launches of regional CountrySTAT EAC and CountrySTAT UEMOA systems, lots of fruitful discussions and meetings have been held for statistical, IT and communication-related issues with the regional CountrySTAT coordinators. According to them, CountrySTAT does not only effectively assist countries in establishing their own data harmonization...

The Technical Working Group of CountrySTAT-Burundi met in Gitega at Hotel Rehoboth from 5 to March 7. The objective of this meeting was to review, harmonize and validate statistical data on food and agriculture. One of the specific objectives of this meeting is to have a minimum of forty tables ready...

The objective of the meeting was to address the challenges of data collection, standardization and harmonisation of national food and agricultural statistics for uploading in the CountrySTAT database.