The FAO Statistics Division in collaboration to FAO Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia is organizing the above webinar for member countries in the region. The meeting is the fifth in the series of regional workshops planned to present the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020 to the FAO member countries in different parts of the world.

Purpose 

The webinar is focusing on the main stages involved in the preparation and implementation of the census of agriculture described in the Operational Guidelines of the WCA 2020. The webinar is part of the FAO Statistics Division's capacity development activities to strengthen the knowledge and skills of national staff in member countries in charge of planning and conducting agricultural censuses.

The participants of the meeting are professional statisticians and census leaders who are likely to play a role in the planning and execution of next agricultural censuses in their respective countries. A total of 20 countries are invited to participate in the meeting, including Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.