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Title: AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (AFCAS)


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  • AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
    (AFCAS)
  • Twenty-first Session
  • Accra, Ghana, 28 31 October 2009
  • AGENDA ITEM IV.1
  • OVERVIEW OF FAOs ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO AFRICA
    REGION SINCE 20th AFCAS SESSION

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CONTENT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • 2. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
    SEX-DISAGGREGATED DATA BY FAO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR
    AFRICA
  • 3. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
    FISHERIES STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • 4. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF WATER
    STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • ANNEX LIST OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE 20th
    SESSION OF AFCAS AND THEIR STATUS OF
    IMPLEMENTATION

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Methodological development
  • Improving FAOSTAT system (http//faostat.fao.org/d
    efault.aspx ) the system is now running
  • Methodological guidelines and publications
  • Published
  • FAO/World Bank publication on TRACKING RESULTS IN
    AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN
    LESS-THAN-IDEAL CONDITIONS-A sourcebook of
    indicators for monitoring and evaluation.
  • (http//www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/docume
    nts/Sourcebook-Web-Version.pdf)
  • FAO publication on DERIVING FOOD SECURITY
    INFORMATION FROMNATIONAL HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
    SURVEYS- Experiences, Achievements, Challenges.
  • (http//www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0430e/i0430e00.htm
    )
  • FAO/RAF publication on STATE OF FOOD AND
    AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SYSTEMS IN AFRICA in 2007
    which was produced from the analysis of replies
    received from more than 40 countries of the
    region to the biennial survey conducted during
    last AFCAS Session in 2007.
  • FAO STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 2007-2008 provides a
    selection of indicators on food and agriculture
    by country.
  • (http//www.fao.org/economic/ess/publications-stud
    ies/statistical-yearbook/fao-statistical-yearbook-
    2007-2008/en/)

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Methodological development
  • Methodological guidelines and publications
  • Under preparation
  • HANDBOOK ON THE USE OF GPS/PDA FOR CROP AREA
    MEASUREMENT. FAO, jointly with EU Joint Research
    Center, World Food Programme and CIRAD have been
    working on preparing this Handbook. A first draft
    of the Handbook has been completed and the
    document will be published early 2010.
  • A HANDBOOK ON THE USE OF INTERNATIONAL
    CLASSIFICATION IN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS is
    being prepared and a first draft will be
    completed by end of 2009 for publication in 2010.
  • Methodological Review WORLD CENSUS OF
    AGRICULTURE 1990 and 2000 to be published in 2010
  • FAO and PARIS21 are working on preparing
    GUIDELINES FOR INTEGRATION OF AGRICULTURAL
    STATISTICS IN NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
    OF STATISTICS.

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Field Programme
  • The main areas of support are agricultural
    censuses, on-going systems of agricultural
    statistics and institutional strengthening,
    agricultural statistics for food security and
    early warning information systems, as well as
    statistical data processing and dissemination.
  • The projects are usually funded by FAO Technical
    Cooperation Programme Funds and Trust Funds..
  • The most recent activities related to field
    programme include
  • Formulation of agricultural statistics and census
    projects Senegal, Uganda, Eritrea, Sao Tomé e
    Principe.
  • Preparation or implementation of agricultural
    censuses Mozambique, Uganda, Burkina Faso,
    Benin.
  • Formulation and implementation of a support to
    permanent agricultural statistics system as
    follow-up to successful implementation of the
    census of agriculture and livestock, Niger.
  • Agricultural statistics for food security and
    early warning information systems Ethiopia
  • Support to preparation of Supply Utilization
    Accounts and Food Balance Sheets Zanzibar
    (Tanzania), Senegal, Kenya, Cote dIvoire.
  • CountrySTAT project being implemented in 17
    Sub-Saharan Countries.
  • Formulation of UEMOA funded CountrySTAT project
    for UEMOA HQs and selected member countries of
    this sub-regional organization.
  • Formulation of a CountrySTAT project in Algeria

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Development and implementation of CountrySTAT for
    17 Sub-Saharan countries
  • Project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates
    Foundation operational since beginning of 2008
    for 17 Sub-Saharan African countries (Angola,
    Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire,
    Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique,
    Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda,
    Zambia).
  • The project aims at developing CountrySTAT system
    in order to organize, integrate and disseminate
    statistical data and metadata on food and
    agriculture coming from different sources.
  • Focus on capacity building and technical support
    activities has been conducted at global and
    country level, including
  • First Consultative Meeting of the project in July
    2008 in Dakar, Senegal for francophone countries
    and in September 2008 in Zanzibar, Tanzania for
    Anglophone countries
  • Basic CountrySTAT training in October 2008 in
    Rome, Italy
  • PC-Axis Meeting in Rome, Italy in 2008
  • Advanced CountrySTAT Training in October 2009 in
    Rome, Italy
  • PC-Axis Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania in October
    2009
  • Second Consultative Meeting in Accra, Ghana in
    October 2009
  • Preparation of several methodological and
    training material in IT and Statistics
  • Support to several national trainings and
    workshops
  • As a result, several countries have launched or
    are about to launch their CountrySTAT and the
    project is extended until September 2010.

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Food Security Indicators
  • The Division has developed the Food Security
    Statistics Module (FSSM) for deriving a suite of
    food security indicators, including the MDG
    hunger indicator, from the available food data
    collected in the National Household Surveys (NHS)
  • .
  • This software uses organized food data files of
    the NHS to produce a large range of food security
    statistics at national and sub national levels
    useful for policy makers to better focus their
    poverty alleviation programmes.
  • Regional and country level FSSM training has been
    carried out during the past years and nationals
    of more than 35 African countries have been
    trained and provided the FSSM software. A few
    countries have used those results as inputs for
    their National Food Security Programme (NFSP) of
    Food Insecurity Assessment reports (FIA). Malawi
    and Kenya have published their FIA reports.
  • The Division is still providing support to
    African countries having more recent NHS food
    data using the updated FSSM version which has
    been updated with modules of food requirement and
    micronutrients. The latter analysis is useful to
    analyze the quality food consumed in terms of
    micronutrients, amino acids and proteins.

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Capacity Building (Workshops, Seminars, Training
    Sessions)
  • ESS has organized several technical meetings,
    workshops and seminars
  • A Joint FAO/Uganda Bureau of Statistics Round
    table meeting on the FAO World Programme for
    Census of Agriculture 2010 (April 2008, Kampala,
    Uganda) for English speaking countries.
  • Training Workshop on Agricultural Statistics in
    Rabat, Morocco April, 2009 for countries of North
    Africa and the Near East
  • The second Wye City Group Meeting in June 2009 in
    Rome with a focus on issues related to the
    revision and preparation of a supplement for
    Non-OECD countries to the handbook Rural
    Households' Livelihood and Well-being Statistics
    on Rural Development and Agriculture Household
    Income.
  • A Round table meeting on the new FAO World
    Programme for Census of Agriculture 2010
    (November 2008, Cairo, Egypt) has been organized
    for North Africa and Near East countries.
  • Technical meeting on use of GPS for crop area
    measurement in agricultural surveys in Africa
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November, 2008
  • International Statistical Institute (ISI)
    Satellite Meeting on Agricultural Statistics
    August 2009, Maputo, Mozambique back-to-back with
    the 57th Session of the International Statistical
    Institute (ISI) in Durban, from 16 to 22 August
    2009.
  • Several training sessions on CountrySTAT have
    been organized and conducted in FAO-HQ and in
    countries where related the CountrySTAT project
    is being implemented as indicated above.

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Global Strategy for Improving Agricultural
    Statistics
  • Since 2008, and under the auspices of the United
    Nations Statistical Commission, FAO has been
    working with other International Agencies and
    Countries to develop a Global Strategy for
    Improving Agricultural Statistics.
  • The purpose of the Global Strategy to Improve
    Agricultural Statistics is to provide a vision
    for national and international statistical
    systems to produce the basic statistical
    information in support of policy and decision
    making, as it relates to the agricultural sector,
    required for the 21st century. The immediate
    goals are
  • Countries will agree upon a minimum set of core
    agricultural data and will pledge to provide such
    a minimum core data set annually to meet the
    current and emerging needs of policy and decision
    making, markets and trade, and investment.
  • Agriculture will be integrated into the national
    statistical systems in order to meet policy maker
    and other data user expectations that the data
    will be comparable across countries and over
    time.
  • The integration will be achieved by an agreed
    upon conceptual framework as a foundation and an
    establishment of innovative methodological
    systems and solutions to build the national
    statistical infrastructure
  • The Strategy has been reviewed and discussed at
    several international meetings and will be
    submitted in November 2009 to the FAO Conference
    for adoption and in February 2010 for endorsement
    by the United Nations Statistical Commission..
  • A detailed presentation of the Global Strategy
    will be made during this AFCAS Session.

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • Partnership for Implementation of Global Strategy
    for Improving Agricultural Statistics in Africa
  • FAO is working with several partners to quick
    start the implementation of some aspects of the
    Global Strategy for Improvement of Statistics.
  • An informal Meeting of main Stakeholders was
    organized on this subject in August 2009 in
    Maputo in parallel to the ISI Satellite. It was
    agreed that a Capacity Building Programme could
    be developed for Africa, given the fact that
  • Countries in Africa Region are among those who
    need the most assistance to strengthen their
    agricultural Statistics system
  • A lot of background work has already done during
    the last 10 years and main issues have been
    identified and what needs to be done through
    biennial meetings of the FAO African Commission
    on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS) and several
    international and regional meetings
  • Interest of several Partners and countries to
    initiate action confirmed at the informal
    Stakeholders meeting in Maputo in August 2009 as
    side event to ISI Satellite meeting on Global
    Strategy (selected countries, Regional training
    institutions, Regional Remote Sensing Centers,
    Development Partners). Main components/sub-program
    mes discussed and confirmed.
  • A preliminary proposal is being developed for a
    stakeholder meeting in early 2010 in Tunis at
    AfDB HQs to start the development of programme
    components (Technical assistance component,
    Training component, Research and development
    component).

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1. STATISTICS DIVISION (ESS)
  • FAO Capacity building strategy and programme
  • The FAO Statistics Division has developed a new
    Capacity Building Strategy and programme which
    builds on the findings and recommendations of the
    external evaluation of FAO work in statistics as
    well as other recent assessments of countries
    capacity in food and agricultural statistics done
    by FAO and other Institutions, particularly
    PARIS21.
  • The Strategy aims at addressing the deterioration
    over the last decades of the capacity of many
    countries in agricultural statistics
    (particularly in Africa).
  • Through the Programme, to be implemented in close
    partnership with other Agencies and Institutions,
    the FAO Statistics Division will focus its
    assistance to member Countries on methodologies
    and tools developed and consolidated by the
    Division and for which it has proven expertise
    and comparative advantage. The assistance will be
    driven by national demands and built around the
    Strengthening of the Institutional coordination
    and capacity through the integration of
    Agricultural Statistics into the National
    Strategies for Development of Statistics (NSDS).
  • FAO and AfDB are working together to implement
    this strategy in selected countries
  • A detailed presentation on this Strategy will be
    made during this Session
  • Other activities
  • Data on Government Expenditures on agriculture
    collected from African countries for monitoring
    the commitment to invest 10 of national budgets
    in Agriculture. FAO is closely cooperating with
    New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
    in this undertaking.
  • The questionnaires on the State of Agricultural
    Statistical Systems in Africa have been sent
    again to countries. .About 30 country replies
    have been recorded. Compiled resultants will be
    presented during the Session of this Commission.

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2. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
SEX-DISAGGREGATED DATA BY FAO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR
AFRICA
  • The FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF)
    continued to provide technical and financial
    support to African Member Countries for in the
    area of gender statistics.
  • In follow-up to the recommendation that Member
    Countries intensify user-producer dialogues to
    facilitate the emergence of a common
    understanding among data producers and users on
    the importance of producing gender-disaggregated
    agricultural statistics, the Organization
    continued to support the production of the
    thematic census reports entitled Gender profile
    of the agricultural sector, prepared with
    statistical data collected by censuses in Niger
    and Tanzanias.
  • In reference to the recommendation that FAO is
    to ensure that the experience gained in Africa
    during the 2000 WCA in the production of sex
    disaggregated agricultural data be built on
    during the WCA 2010, the Organization has
    finalized an electronic tool kit entitled
    AGRI-GENDER DATABASE, a statistical toolkit for
    the production of sex-disaggregated agricultural
    data which will be officially launched during
    this Session of the Commission.
  • Furthermore, FAO supports the Economic Commission
    for Africa to integrate sex-disaggregated
    agricultural data into the African Gender and
    Development Index being developed by the latter
    Institution.
  • With regard to the recommendation that Member
    Countries and FAO alike endeavour to fine-tune
    new complex gender sensitive concepts like
    sub-holder and sub-holding while building data
    producers and users capacity hereto, the
    Organization recently re-engaged with relevant
    stakeholders in Senegal, Benin and the Food
    Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia
    to expand their experience in collecting such
    data.

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3. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
FISHERIES STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Information and
    Statistics Service (FIES) has continued to
    compile process and disseminate the FAO global
    databases on fishery statistics with close
    collaboration with members. In addition,
    specifically for this region, FIES regularly
    updates two regional databases on capture
    production corresponding to the FAO Fishing Areas
    34-Eastern Central Atlantic (from Morocco to
    the Democratic Rep. of the Congo) and 47-
    Southeast Atlantic (from Angola to South
    Africa).
  • In 2007, a revision of the statistical divisions
    for the Southeast Atlantic database was jointly
    proposed and endorsed by FAO and the South East
    Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO), a
    regional fisheries management organization which
    covers the high seas of the South East Atlantic
    Ocean. Its Convention was signed in 2001 by
    Angola, Namibia, South Africa, United Kingdom (on
    behalf of St. Helena and its dependencies of
    Tristan da Cunha and Ascension Islands) and
    distant water fishing countries. The revision of
    the statistical divisions aims at obtaining
    clearly separate data between catches taken
    inside and outside Economic Exclusive Zones
    (EEZs) of coastal states. During the last two
    years, the two organizations have been
    collaborating in setting up the new statistical
    framework and exchanging the information
    received.
  • After the development of an inventory of marine
    resources and stocks, an inventory of national
    fisheries in the Committee for the Eastern
    Central Atlantic Fisheries (CECAF) area is
    currently under a validation process, for
    eventual publishing as part of the web based
    Fishery Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS). The
    same process is underway for the South West
    Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC)
    region. FIRMS is a formal Information Partnership
    arrangement launched in February 2004 which
    currently brings together 13 Inter-Governmental
    Organizations and FAO. Other similar draft
    inventories are available or under development in
    the Benguela Current region, and in the Red Sea
    region.

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3. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
FISHERIES STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • The FAO Strategy for Improving Information on
    Status and Trends of Capture Fisheries
    (Strategy-STF) was adopted by the 25th Session of
    the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) and
    endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly
    (UNGA) in 2003. with the overall objective of
    providing a framework for the improvement of
    knowledge and understanding of fishery status and
    trends as a basis for fisheries policy-making and
    sustainable management.
  • Since the last AFCAS session, activities related
    to fisheries statistics supported by FAO through
    the FishCode STF project include
  • The holding of two sub-Regional Workshop on
    Improving information on Status and Trends of
    captured fisheries i) for West Central Gulf of
    Guinea Region in collaboration with the newly
    established Fisheries Committee West Central Gulf
    of Guinea (Accra, Ghana from 26 to 28 June 2007),
    and ii) for the Gulf of Guinea in Collaboration
    with the Fisheries Committee for the Gulf of
    Guinea (Douala, Cameroon 15-18 April, 2008). Both
    workshops identified information requirements,
    gaps/bottlenecks in data collection and provided
    recommendation for improvement.
  • As follow up of the sub-regional workshop,
    national activities for the improvement of
    fisheries data collection were formulated for
    Côte dIvoire, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria,
    Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and the Democratic
    Republic of Congo The activities are presently
    being implemented.
  • Support to the establishment of an ad hoc working
    group on fisheries statistics for the Fisheries
    Committee West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC).
  • Support to the second meeting of the Working
    Party on Fisheries Statistics (WPFS) of the South
    West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC)
    during 28-30 April 2008 in Mombassa, Kenya.
  • Development and implementation of a training
    course on fisheries data collection for District
    Fisheries Officers in Tanzania and Kenya.
  • Further support to the implementation of Big
    Numbers Project. The Global (Big) Numbers Project
    (G(B)NP) is a joint activity of FAO and WorldFish
    Center and funded through PROFISH and own
    contributions by the two organizations.

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3. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF
FISHERIES STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • FAO FIES has started a new TCP Project
    TCP/GUI/3204 Support for the establishment of a
    fisheries information system for artisanal marine
    fisheries and inland fisheries in Guinea. The
    primary goal is to review and adapt the fisheries
    data collection system for Guinea and support the
    development of a comprehensive Fisheries
    Information System.
  • Latest publications
  • FAO Yearbook, Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics,
    2006 and 2007 (in press).
  • The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008.

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4. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF WATER
STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • The FAO Land and Water Division (NRL) manages the
    AQUASTAT Programme, which is FAOs global
    information system on water and agriculture
    (http//www.fao.org/nr/aquastat). Its aim is to
    provide users interested in global, regional and
    national analyses with comprehensive information
    related to water resources and agricultural water
    management across the world, with emphasis on
    countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the
    Caribbean.
  • The information system consists of
  • Databases The AQUASTAT main country database, as
    well as databases on African dams, on
    institutions, on river sediment yields, and on
    investment costs in irrigation
  • Countries and regions Standardized text by
    country and by region on the state of water
    resources and agricultural water use
  • Climate information tool A tool to provide
    climate estimates for the land surface of the
    globe
  • Water resources Review of the statistics of
    renewable water resources by country
  • Agricultural water use Review of agricultural
    water use by country
  • Global irrigation map Global map of irrigated
    areas, which is a spatial dataset on areas
    equipped for irrigation
  • Maps and tables A selection of downloadable maps
    and datasets on water and agriculture.
    Geo-referenced AQUASTAT information is also
    available on GeoNetwork
  • Publications AQUASTAT publications related to
    water and agriculture.

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4. ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN IN THE FIELD OF WATER
STATISTICS IN AFRICA
  • AQUASTAT is responsible for the MDG Water
    Indicator 7.5, which is equal to the proportion
    of renewable water resources withdrawn.
  • On average every 5-10 years country and regional
    information is updated through a detailed
    questionnaire..
  • The online country database contains about 100
    items, related to population and geography
    climate and water resources water use
    irrigation and drainage development and
    environment and health (http//www.fao.org/nr/wate
    r/aquastat/data/query/index.html).
  • AQUASTAT collaborates with FAOSTAT on the one
    water-related item available in FAOSTAT, which is
    the Area equipped for irrigation to ensure
    consistency.
  • AQUASTAT has been involved in the preparation of
    the questionnaire for the World Census on
    Agriculture 2010 and Theme 3 Irrigation and
    water management follows the AQUASTAT structure
    and definitions.
  • AQUASTAT contributes to and is a major data
    provider for international flagship publications,
    and plays a key role in the development of the
    UN-Water federated water monitoring system. It
    collaborates with UNSD on standardization and
    harmonization of water-related data and
    definitions, and with the Global Water Systems
    Project (GWSP) on the preparation of a global map
    of dams and reservoirs.
  • AQUASTAT concentrates on capacity building
    through projects Benin, Ethiopia, Somalia
    Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Timor-Leste.
  • It organizes and participates in workshops on
    understanding and improving the methodologies
    used for the estimation of water resources and
    use, in collaboration with regional economic
    organizations (ECOWAS, ECLAC, ESCAP, etc.).
  • It collaborates with different universities and
    research institutions on the improvement of
    data,.

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  • LIST OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE 20th
    SESSION OF AFCAS AND THEIR STATUS OF
    IMPLEMENTATION
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