Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS), 30th Session

In accordance with Article VI-1 of the FAO Constitution, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) organized the Thirtieth session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS30), convened along with its side events in Kathmandu, Nepal during 19-24 May 2024 at the kind invitation of the Government of Nepal.

Purpose of the meeting

The Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is a statutory body of FAO. APCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of the Asia and Pacific region who are responsible for the development of food and agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They review the developments in their food and agricultural statistics systems since the last session and exchange ideas with experts from FAO and other organizations on the state of food and agricultural statistics in the region. FAO uses this occasion to inform the member countries about its activities during the preceding biennium, particularly in Asia and the Pacific region. 

The prominent themes on the Agenda of this session are recent developments and innovations related to: FAO activities in the Asia and the Pacific region, SDG indicators under FAO custodianship, use of earth observations for agriculture statistics, agriculture censuses, the 50x2030 initiative, the agricultural science and technology indicators program, food and nutrition security statistics, sub-sector statistics and damage and loss.  

The Session will be preceded by side events/country roundtables that focus on country experiences and innovations in the use of earth observations, farm-based SDG indicators, and implementation of agricultural censuses. Outputs include summaries of experiences in the region and draft guidelines and recommendations in moving forward in these areas of work.

Membership of the Commission

As per the Statute of the Commission, the membership of the Commission is open to all Member Nations of FAO and Associate Members whose territories are situated wholly or partly in the Asia and the Pacific Region or who are responsible for the international relations of any non-self-governing territories in the Region. As of April 2024, 31 countries were members of APCAS, namely: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, and Viet Nam. FAO member nations interested in becoming a member of the Commission are welcome to contact the APCAS-Secretary for guidance in this regard.

Participants

Apart from delegates nominated by member countries, FAO partner institutions are also invited as observers with a right to speak. FAO technical experts from the Asia Pacific Regional Office, the Pacific Regional Office, and FAO headquarters take part in the deliberations.

 

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List of documents

Documents will be posted as soon as available.

 

Information and Meeting Documents

Document Symbol	Title
APCAS/24/INF1	List of Documents
APCAS/24/INF2	Information Note
APCAS/24/INF3	List of Participants (draft)
APCAS/24/INF4	Statutes of the Commission
APCAS/24/INF5	Report of the Thirtieth session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on agricultural statistics
APCAS/24/INF6	Provisional Agenda
APCAS/24/INF7	Provisional Timetable: APCAS Main Event and Commission Meetings
APCAS/24/INF8	Provisional Timetable: APCAS Side Events/ Country Roundtables

 

Papers and Presentations for the Main Event / Commission Meetings

Document Symbol	Title	Paper	Presentation
APCAS/24/3.1	Overview of FAO’s activities in food and agricultural statistics in the Asia and Pacific Region and implementation of recommendations of the 29th Session of APCAS
APCAS/24/3.2	Response rates to FAO questionnaires and data collection plans for 2024/25	√
APCAS/24/3.3	Progress in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator Reporting	√
APCAS/24/4.1	New innovations in SDG indicators (Data disaggregation, Tools for Progress Assessment, outcomes of UNSC, etc.)	√
APCAS/24/4.2	Report of Side Event: Country Experiences in compiling farm-based SDG Indicators
APCAS/24/5.1	The EO data task force, and new FAO methodologies and activities
APCAS/24/5.2	Report of Side Event: Country Experiences in EO data
APCAS/24/6.1	Progress in the implementation of the WCA 2020 in Asia and the Pacific and the World (FAO) and proposed outline and strategy for the WCA 2030 guidelines
APCAS/24/6.2	Report of Side Event: Country experiences in the preparation and implementation of censuses of agriculture in the WCA 2020 round and implications for WCA2030
APCAS/24/7.1	Introduction to the 50x2030 Initiative
APCAS/24/7.2	Implementation of the 50x2030 Initiative in Cambodia and lessons learned
APCAS/24/8.1	Introduction to the Agriculture Science and Technology Indicators (Speech only)
APCAS/24/8.2	Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators: Institutionalization and new national data collection approach
APCAS/24/8.3	Lessons from intergovernmental dialogues: Towards a roadmap to institutionalize ASTI
APCAS/24/9.1	Policy recommendations from the Committee on World Food security and implications for the statistical community
APCAS/24/9.2	FAOSTAT Food and Diet Domain for dissemination of statistics on dietary data
APCAS/24/9.3	Methods to estimate cost and affordability of healthy diets
APCAS/24/9.4	Measuring fish consumption and nutrition with photo evidence
APCAS/24/9.5	Food consumption surveys in the Pacific SIDS
APCAS/24/10.1	Enhance fishery and aquaculture data in support to Blue Transformation: main challenges and possible enhancements
APCAS/24/10.2	SDG 14 indicators: overview, reporting progress with a focus on SDG 14.4.1 and bottlenecks
APCAS/24/10.3	Water data and information at global level – The Global Water Data Portal
APCAS/24/10.4	New Domain on Damage and Loss