Interview with Jairo Castano, FAO’s Agriculture Census Team Leader

3 November 2015, Rome. A new global round of country-driven agricultural censuses is set to begin in 2016, a large-scale, data collection process that will gather information and statistics on the world’s agricultural sector. To support the process, FAO today published a set of updated guidelines to assist governments in carrying out their national-level agricultural censuses, tailored to various different country needs and capacities. Jairo Castano illustrates aims, methods and novelties of the new edition of these guidelines.