Asunción (Paraguay), 26/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
The Latin American and the Caribbean Commission for Agricultural Statistics (LACCAS) is a statutory body of FAO since the 1950s and meets every two years. Comprising 32 Member Nations, LACCAS provides a space for discussing critical issues related to national agricultural statistical systems. Each session results in recommendations that drive capacity development projects across the region.
Purpose of the meeting
The Latin American and the Caribbean Commission for Agricultural Statistics (LACCAS) is a statutory body of FAO. LACCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO Members of the Latin American and Caribbean region who are responsible for the development of food and agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They review the developments in their food and 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 Nations about its activities during the preceding biennium, particularly in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
The prominent themes on the Agenda of this session are recent developments and innovations related to: FAO activities in the Latin American and Caribbean region since 2023, SDG indicators under FAO custodianship, food balance sheets, agriculture censuses, the agricultural science and technology indicators (ASTI), and food systems statistics.
The Session will be preceded by a meeting of the Regional Working Group on Agricultural Statistics in the framework of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which will focus on the current state of multiple frame sampling for agricultural statistics, and regional actions to support countries in the development, and maintenance of these frames.
Membership of the Commission
As per the Statute of the Commission, the membership of the Commission is open to all Member Nations of FAO and Associate Members whose territories are situated wholly or partly in the Latin American and Caribbean region or who are responsible for the international relations of any non-self-governing territories in the region. As of March 2025, 32 countries were members of LACCAS, namely: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). FAO Member Nations interested in becoming a member of the Commission are welcome to contact the LACCAS-Secretary for guidance in this regard.
Participants
Apart from delegates nominated by Member Nations, FAO partner institutions are also invited as observers with a right to speak. FAO technical experts from the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC), the Subregional Office for the Caribbean (SLC), and FAO headquarters will take part in the deliberations.
LACCAS32 Side Event
(Documents will be posted as soon as available)
Document Symbol | Title |
LACCAS/32/INF1 | List of Documents |
LACCAS/32/INF2 | Information Note |
LACCAS/32/INF3 | List of Participants |
LACCAS/32/INF4 | Statutes of the Commission |
LACCAS/32/INF5 | Report of the Thirty-second Session of the Latin American and the Caribbean Commission for Agricultural Statistics (LACCAS32) |
LACCAS/32/INF6 | Provisional Timetable |
Document Symbol | Title | Paper | Presentation |
LACCAS/32/2.1 | Report on progress made by the Working Group on Agricultural Statistics of the Statistical Conference of the Americas | ||
LACCAS/32/2.2 | Country response rate to FAO questionnaires and data collection plans for 2024/25 | ||
LACCAS/32/2.3 | Summary of achievements of technical cooperation projects in the Caribbean | ||
LACCAS/32/3.1 | Progress in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator Reporting | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/3.2 | SDG 2.4.1 Area under Sustainable Agriculture Proxy Methodology | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/3.3 | Methodology for monitoring Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/3.4 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/3.5 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/3.6 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/3.8 | Report on implementing small area estimation for generating disaggregated data for SDG 2 in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador | ||
LACCAS/32/4.1 | Key results from the 2020 Census round in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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LACCAS/32/4.2 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/4.3 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/4.4 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/4.5 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/4.6 | Progress in WCA 2020 implementation and proposed outline and strategy for the WCA 2030 guidelines | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/5.1 | Key aspects of new FBS methodology, tools, and reporting challenges | ||
LACCAS/32/6.1 | Achievement of the first phase of the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative in Latin America and next steps | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/6.2 | - | ||
LACCAS/32/7.1 | Enhance fishery and aquaculture data in support to Blue Transformation: main challenges and possible enhancements | ||
LACCAS/32/7.2 | SDG 14 indicators: overview, reporting progress, bottlenecks and outlook with a focus on SDG 14.4.1 | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/8.1 | Introduction to agrifood systems indicators | ||
LACCAS/32/8.2 | Computing greenhouse emissions | ||
LACCAS/32/8.3 | Methods for computing employment in agrifood systems | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/8.4 | Methods for computing value added in agrifood systems and methods for food expenditure | EN | ES | |
LACCAS/32/8.5 | Methods for computing cost and affordability of healthy diets | EN | ES |
(LACCAS Secretary and Regional Statistician for the Latin American and Caribbean region. FAO Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean, Santiago, Chile)
(Regional adviser on statistics, FAO Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean, Santiago, Chile)