FAO AGRISurvey programme helps countries strengthening their national agricultural surveys systems and promotes access to agricultural statistics. Through a farm-based multi-year survey programme, AGRISurvey promotes the collection, dissemination and use of sound, harmonized, timely and regular data on agriculture. The programme considers the social, economic, technical and environmental characteristics of agricultural holdings to produce data that support evidence-based policy decision making.
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- FAO prompts the evidenced-based agricultural policy debate in Senegal
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...
