22/11/2021 - 25/11/2021
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.