Ninth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS IX)

The International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) focuses on fostering and leveraging best practices and research in response to the changing needs and opportunities for agricultural statistics. ICAS brings together experts from around the world to share research and operational accomplishments, and to explore the latest methodological innovations by countries and development partners.

ICAS IX was held from May 17 to 19, 2023 in Washington, DC, and was organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the World Bank, in coordination with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the aegis of the Committee on Agricultural Statistics of the ISI.

ICAS IX discussed the following themes:

• Food Security Diets and Nutrition
• Rural Development, poverty and social issues
• Climate Change and Environmental Issues
• Sustainable agriculture production and consumption
• Markets, Prices and Value chains
• Shocks, risks and resilience
• Natural Resource Use
• Data collection / Data Quality
• Alternative data sources / data integration / data interoperability
• Innovative approaches to data analysis
• Data access / Data Dissemination / Data Use for policy making
• Capacity Building in Agricultural Statistics

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Papers

• From Data on Agriculture to Data on Food Systems: The Importance of Transiting Towards A Food System Approach on Data Collection to Guide Its Transformation. SPEAKER: Maximo Torero (PPT)
• Measuring The Distribution of the Food Expenditure Across the Food Value Chain. SPEAKER: Miguel Gomez (Presentation)
• Measuring GHG Emissions in the Food Systems. SPEAKER: Francesco Tubiello (Presentation)
• Measuring the Number of People Working in Food Systems. SPEAKER: Kate Schneider (Presentation)
• A New Indicator Framework for Measuring Food Systems Transformation: The Food Countdown Initiative. SPEAKER: José Rosero Moncayo (PPT)
• Food Price Inflation Nowcasting and Monitoring | Presentation
• The Food and Agricultural Microdata Catalogue SPEAKER: Pietro Gennari (Presentation)
• Innovating Data Integration, Analysis and Advanced GIS Mapping Using FAO Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform. SPEAKER: Karl Morteo P1 P2
• Midterm Review of the 2020 Round of Censuses of Agriculture. SPEAKER: José Rosero Moncayo (Presentation)
• National Quality Assurance Framework Tailored to Agriculture Statistics. SPEAKER: Pietro Gennari (Presentation)  
• Key Issues Faced in the Collection of Fisheries Statistics: Needs and Requirements. SPEAKER: Stefania Vannuccini (Presentation)
• The Approach Followed by the Illuminating Hidden Harvest (IHH) Study to Collate Data and Information on Small-scale Fisheries. SPEAKER: Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros (Presentation)
• Fisheries Data in Household and Labour Survey Data: Issues and Initiatives. SPEAKER: Gianluigi Nico (Presentation)
• Towards a Dedicated Global Strategy in Fisheries Statistics, with Main Focus on Small-scale Fisheries? SPEAKER: Stefania Vannuccini (Presentation)
• Understanding Challenges in Collecting Data on Agricultural Land Ownership with a Gender Perspective—National Legal Frameworks and Statistical Issues.  SPEAKER: Margarita Guerrero | DISCUSSANT: Jessamyn Encarnacion (Presentation)
• Integrating Data Requirements for SDG 5.a.1 in Censuses and Surveys of Agriculture. SPEAKER: Myagmarkhand Erdene-ochir | DISCUSSANT: Pietro Gennari (Presentation)