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Agricultural survey design and Indicators training in Guinea Bissau
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), from December 6th to the 12th, 2022, a training course on designing an agricultural survey and indicators took place in the FAO representation in Guinea Bissau.
The training ...
National workshop on MSF and hand-on training in Tanzania
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics (GSARS) a national workshop on training on Master Sampling Frame (MSF) was held in Dodoma, from the 6th to the 10th of March 2023.
This workshop covered two important activities of the MSF package: di...
Technical session on the capacity assessment of the agricultural statistics system in Madagascar
13/04/2023
As part of the implementation of the second phase of the Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS II), Madagascar and FAO
First results on farm typology in Ghana presented to the key users
13/04/2023
The Global Strategy continued the assistance to Ghana on the definition of the national farm typology by organizing an online workshop (10 – 13 October 2022) led by the ESS statistician Mariana Toteva. Using the available data from the Ghana Census of Agriculture 2017-2018, the farm types were...
Mali delivers a national workshop on Farm Economy and agricultural LOSSES
13/04/2023
Under the frame of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), Mali organized a workshop from 30th January to 03rd February 2023 in Bamako regarding the modules Modules for Agricultural Household Economics Surveys (FARMECO) and Agri...
Indicators calculation training and restitution in Burkina Faso
13/04/2023
A session to calculate CAADP indicators was held in Ouagadougou from March 14 to 16, 2023, to benefit six male participants from the Directorate in charge of agricultural statistics. The training was provided by Maurice Taondyandé, a statistician in the FAO Statistics Division...
Ghana delivers training of enumerators for farm losses and pilot survey
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), Ghana conducted a training on Farm Agricultural Losses Pilot Survey. The training was held from December 7th to the 9th, 2022.
The conduction of this pilot survey aims to test the data ...
Capacity building on statistical data processing and analysis in Zimbabwe
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics,the first module of the TOOLS package was held in Zimbabwe from November 7th to 11th of 2022 in the FAO Office of Harare.
The objective of this training was to amplify the ability of the technical sta...
Mali receives assistance in the development of typology of agricultural holdings
13/04/2023
The Global Strategy organized trainings on farm typology in Mali, from 3 to 11 November 2022, led by the ESS statistician Mariana Toteva.
The first session introduced the internationally recognized concepts and definitions for the classification of agricultural holdings into homogeneous...
National workshop on MSF and hand-on training in Zambia
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics (GSARS), Zambia held a national workshop on training on Master Sampling Frame (MSF) from the 12th to the 16th of December 2022.
This workshop covered two important activities of the MSF package: disc...
Comoros gets technical assistance on Agricultural Production Survey
13/04/2023
Comoros organized a first mission from 31st October to 04th November 2022 to support the country in the design of collection tools for the Comoros agricultural production survey.
The agricultural production surveys package (AGPROD) and the use of the CAPI ...
Niger debuts on the work on the definition of farm typology
13/04/2023
Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics (GSARS), from the 7th to 10th of March 2023 Niger organized several trainings on farm typology (FT).
The trainings were led by the FAO Statistics Division
Madagascar gets technical assistance on Agricultural Production Survey
13/04/2023
As part of the GSARSII technical assistance to Madagascar, a technical workshop was organized from 7th to 11th November 2022. This mission helped the country to design data collection tools for the agricultural production survey (AGPROD).
The content of the question...
Compilation and analysis of the national Food Balance Sheet in Comoros
12/04/2023
The first Food and Balance Sheet (FBS) training for the members of the national Technical Working Group (TWG) in Comoros was conducted from 12-16 December 2022 and led by Mr. Dominique Habimana from FAO HQ.
The opening remarks were given by Dr. Fouad Mohamed...
Capacity building training on statistical data processing and analysis in Niger
12/04/2023
The STATISTICAL TOOLS package was implemented in Niger across two on-site workshops: the first held from October 3rd to the 7th, 2022, and the second held from January 15th to the 21st, 2023.
The training was developed across ...
Capacity building training on statistical data processing and analysis in DRC
12/04/2023
As part of the activities relating to the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS II), a training workshop in data processing and analysis tools was held from February 6th to 17th, 2023 in DRC.
the training was opened by...
Capacity building training on statistical data processing and analysis in Togo
12/04/2023
The STATISTICAL TOOLS package was implemented in Togo across two on-site workshops, led by Mr. Wonou Edem Yao, statistician: the first held in November 2022, from the 14th to the 25th, the second held in February 2023, from the 20th to the 24
Capacity building training on statistical data processing and analysis in Lesotho
12/04/2023
In Lesotho, the first two TOOLS modules were implemented through intense training from March 6th to 14th of 2023 aimed at providing adequate skills for data processing and analysis with statistical software (SPSS was chosen by the country), focusing particularly on the product...
The Global Strategy builds statistical data dissemination capacity in Egypt
12/04/2023
As part of the implementation of the second phase, the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS II) organized in Egypt the first of a series of three trainings on DISSEMINATION in the context of the National Statistics System. The training was held at FAO premises in...
Compilation and analysis of the national Food Balance Sheet in Nigeria
12/04/2023
Under the frame of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) program, Nigeria held a training for the compilation and analysis of the national food balance sheets (FBS) from 19th to 28th of October, 2022.