In a strategic move to improve Liberia's agricultural data management, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) kickstarted a 10-day technical mission in collaboration with Liberia’s Technical Working Group (TWG). This partnership, which includes the Ministry of Agricu...

On the 3^rd of July 2023, the African Centre of Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

As part of the implementation of the second phase of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS II), FAO organized the second training of the DISSEMINATION package in Egypt.

The training was held at FAO premises in Cairo from 22 to 24 May 2023. Fourteen nati...

The Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS II) team organized the first of three trainings on DISSEMINATION in Ghana. It was held at FAO premises in Accra from 29 May to 2 June 2023.

The workshop included 15 participants from the Ministry of Food and Agricul...

La deuxième formation sur le paquet DIFFUSION en Guinée s'est tenue du 8 au 12 mai 2023, guidée par M Abdoulaye Ba, statisticien-expert en diffusion des données statistiques (FAO). L'atelier a réuni 16 experts (dont 5 femmes) de l'Institut national de la statistique (INS), de l'Agence national...

This week, the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics is taking part in the Ninth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS IX), in Washington DC.

 ICAS brings together experts from around the world to discuss best practices and research in res...

With the support of the GSARS II project, the Agriculture Statistics Directorate (DSA) from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery of Benin released on-line four thematic notes using the results from the recent census of agriculture. The release of these thematic analysis is an imp...

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics (GSARS), Mali held a training on SPSS descriptive statistics analysis and data processing.

The training took place from November 14 to 25, 2022, in Bamako and was delivered by Maurice Taondyandé, a st...

As part of the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), Lesotho held the first AGPROD technical discussion and training.

The training took place from 13^th to 17^th March 2023 in Maseru and it was led by Nayo Ankouvi from FAO HQ and opened...

In the framework of the 2nd phase of the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics (GSARS) a training was conducted in Lesotho on the computation and interpretation of economic indicators. The training was led by Franck Cachia, International Consultant on agricultural statis...

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics Burundi organized a training course on Sampling design, weighting, and estimations, held from November 21st to 25th, 2022, in Gitega.

The training was delivered by Dramane Bako and Desire Nkezaba...

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics (GSARS), Guinea Bissau organized a training held from February 28th to March 9th, 2023, in Bissau.

The training was led by Maurice Taondyandé, a statistician at the FAO Statistics...

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultu...

Dans le cadre de la Stratégie Mondiale d’Amélioration des Statistiques Agricoles et Rurale (GSARS II), La FAO a organisé une formation sur l’échantillonnage, la pondération et les estimations, et ce du 3 au 7 Avril 2023, à l’hôtel Onomo à Conakr...

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), 

The national workshop on training on Master Sampling Frame (MSF) in Accra (Ghana) was done from 24 to 28 October 2022

This workshop covered two important activities of the MSF package: discussions on the type and structures of the MSF for the country and hand-on training on development a...

As part of the GSARSII technical assistance to Liberia, a technical workshop to design data collection tools for the agricultural production survey (AGPROD) was organized from November 20th to December 3rd, 2022.

The workshop was delivered by Nayo Ankouvi from FAO HQ in close collab...

With the online assistance of the Global Strategy, Burkina Faso continued the work on the definition of the national farm typology after the first training in June 2022.

The farm types were defined using the four proposed dimensions: farm profile, farm size, commodity specialization and...