Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS), 29th Session

The Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is a statutory body of FAO. APCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of the Asia and Pacific region, who are responsible for the development of agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They review the developments in their agricultural statistics systems since the last session and exchange ideas with experts from FAO and other organizations on the state of food and agricultural statistics in the region. FAO uses this occasion to inform the member countries about its activities during the preceding biennium, particularly in Asia and the Pacific region.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) organized the 29th session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS 29), in Mongolia, 22-25 November 2021.

The prominent themes on the Agenda of this session were: FAO activities in the Asia and the Pacific region, FAO’s Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, The World Programme of the Census of Agriculture and Integrated Agriculture Surveys, Subsector Statistics, Use of ICT, Quality Assurance Frameworks, Open Data and Data Dissemination.

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Presentations

APCAS/21/3.1	Implementation of the Recommendations of the 28th APCAS Session
APCAS/21/3.2	Response rates to FAO questionnaires
APCAS/21/3.3	Progress of the RAP region in reporting the SDG indicators under FAO custodianship
APCAS/21/4.1	Impact of COVID-19 on agricultural censuses in Asia Pacific
APCAS/21/4.2	Methodological adaptations and strategies for remote collection of FIES
APCAS/21/5.1	Measuring progress toward SDG targets
APCAS/21/5.2	Accelerating FAO support on SDG monitoring (Regional Roadmap and Toolkit)
APCAS/21/5.3	Guidelines on data disaggregation for SDG indicators using survey data
APCAS/21/5.4	Monitoring SDG target 2.1 in the Pacific region - filling the data gap
APCAS/21/5.5	Computation of farm-based SDG indicators: Indonesia’s experience in conducting Agricultural Integrated Surveys
APCAS/21/6.1	Implementation of the 50x2030 Initiative in Asia Pacific
APCAS/21/6.2	DataLab@FAO: a new approach to fill data gaps
APCAS/21/6.3	Implementation of AGRIS in Cambodia
APCAS/21/7.1	Using earth observation for producing agricultural statistics
APCAS/21/7.2	Using earth observation data for producing environmental statistics
APCAS/21/7.3	Earth observation derived crop mapping to help produce agriculture statistics
APCAS/21/7.4	Land cover mapping through remote sensing and machine learning for Indonesian Census of Agriculture 2023
APCAS/21/7.5	Methodology to estimate crop yield data using remote sensing techniques in agricultural statistics
APCAS/21/8.1	Enhancing fishery and aquaculture statistics: international perspective
APCAS/21/8.2	Open Foris - free and open source tools and methods for data collection, analysis and reporting