Proceedings. Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, and Rural Development. Linking statistics with decision making.

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1 23-25 October 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, and Rural Development. Linking statistics with decision making. Proceedings

2 Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística IBGE Diretoria de Pesquisas Coordenação de Agropecuária October 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Improving Statistics for Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, and Rural Development. Linking statistics with decision making. Proceedings Rio de Janeiro 2015

3 Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística IBGE Av. Franklin Roosevelt, 166 Centro Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil Host Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Partner Brazilian Society of Rural Economy, Management and Sociology (SOBER) Sponsors International Statistical Institute (ISI) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Bank Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Asian Development Bank (ADB) African Development Bank Group European Comission Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21 st Century (Paris21) Graphic Project and Desktop Publishing PVDI Design Cover Licia Rubinstein IBGE Editors Flavio Bolliger and Leonardo Z. Maya IBGE Conferência Internacional sobre Estatísticas Agropecuárias (6. : 2013 : Rio de Janeiro, RJ) Proceedings / ICAS VI - Sixth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics, October 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; [host: IBGE ; partner: SOBER ; editors: Flavio Bolliger and Leonardo Z. Maya ; committee chairpersons: Wasmália Bivar, Flavio Bolliger, Cynthia Clark, Michael Steiner and Roberto Sant Anna]. - Rio de Janeiro : IBGE, p. : il. Patrocinadores: ISI / USDA / World Bank / FAO / ADB / AFDB / European Comission / Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation / Paris 21. Projeto gráfico e editoração: PVDI. Inclui bibliografia. ISBN Estatística agrícola - Congressos. 2. Agropecuária - Estatística - Organização. 3. Economia agrícola - Congressos. 4. Agropecuária - Serviços de estatística - Congressos. 5. Agricultura sustentável Estatística Congressos. 6. Desenvolvimento rural Estatística Congressos. 7. Segurança alimentar Estatística Congressos. I. Bolliger, Flavio. II. Maya, Leonardo Z. III. Bivar, Wasmália. IV. Clark, Cynthia. V. Steiner, Michael. VI. Sant Anna, Roberto. VII. IBGE. VIII. Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administração e Sociologia Rural. IX. Título. Gerência de Biblioteca e Acervos Especiais CDU :061.3(100) RJ/ ECO

4 of agricultural activities. For the quantification of agri-environmental indicators and the estimation of GHG, the distribution of crop shares over the Homogenous Spatial Units (HSU) is required, as many indicators depend on the local combination of land use and environmental conditions. These Spatial Units should express highest possible homogeneity for important factors so that their characterizations and results can be regarded as representative. In this paper, we investigate the prediction of the crop shares over the new HSU2 (fine meshed grid 1km*1km). Results are aggregated to be compared with the crop shares. Most of predictions follow the trend of crop shares from the statistics. Keywords prediction; crop shares distribution; greenhouse gas emission; spatial downscaling. Understanding the Link between Nutritional Status and Women s Empowerment in Agriculture: evidence from Ghana five domains in agriculture, namely: agricultural production, access to and control over productive resources, control over the use of income, leadership in the community, and time allocation (Alkire et al. 2013). We conduct individual-level analyses of nutrition outcomes including indicators on stunted, wasted and underweight children, underweight women, and feeding practices such as exclusive breastfeeding, and diet diversity for women and children. Preliminary results suggest that women s empowerment is more strongly associated with infant and young child feeding, and only weakly associated with child nutrition status. Similarly, we find that women s empowerment in credit decisions is positively and significantly correlated with women s dietary diversity, but not the likelihood of being underweight. This suggests that improved nutritional status is not necessarily correlated with being empowered in all the domains of empowerment, and that different domains may have different impacts on nutrition, consistent with other findings in the empowerment literature (Kabeer 1999). Keywords: women s empowerment; gender; agriculture; nutrition; Ghana. 721 P o s t e r Sect i o n Hazel Jean Malapit, Agnes R. Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division (PHND) h.malapit@cgiar.org, a.quisumbing@cgiar.org Ruth Meinzen-Dick IFPRI, Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD) USA r.meinzen-dick@cgiar.org Water Use for Irrigation Purpose by Agriculture Holdings as Bases for the Production of Statistical Data at River Basin District Level This paper investigates the link between women s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana. The sample consists of 3,344 children and 3,640 women, and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the Feed the Future programs are operating. We use a new survey-based index, the Women s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which directly measures women s empowerment, inclusion and agency in the agriculture sector across G. Bellini, M.A. Liguori, F. Lipizzi, M. G. Magliocchi, S. Tersigni Istat, Italy bellini@istat.it, liguori@istat.it, lipizzi@istat.it, magliocchi@istat.it, sttersig@istat.it F. Lupia Inea, Italy lupia@inea.it International policy on water use has been oriented to promote and develop more sustainable ways of

5 722 P o s t e r Sect i o n using water resources and most of them focuses on agriculture that still represent - in a Mediterranean country such as Italy - a highly water demanding sector. That determined that also the statistical demand on such matter increased enormously recently. Thus, due to international mandatory Regulation, Istat, the National Institute of Statistics, had to produce for the first time official statistics on water use at farm level. The main focus of the present paper is to show the methodology used for geocoding agriculture holdings and their component units at census enumeration area and for estimating water use per farm in order to calculate the water consumed by agriculture at River Basin District level, that is the most important territory classification referring to water use and management issue. Keywords: irrigation; river basin; agriculture. Dichotomy between Urban and Rural Areas: statistical data may not reveal the synergy between these two existing spaces Washington Pereira Campos, Marina Aparecida da Silveira Federal University of Goiás UFG Brazil washingtontri0@yahoo.com.br, prof_marinasilveira@hotmail.com Márcio Caliari School of Food Engineering Federal University of Goiás UFG, Brazil macaliari@ig.com.br Alcido Elenor Wander Embrapa Brazil alcido.wander@embrapa.br The gains in non-agricultural activities represent a new dynamic in rural Brazil and now has representation in Brazil from the 1990s. In this perspective, the Brazilian countryside is undergoing a reconfiguration, pointing to an intensification of the urbanization of rural areas, especially in peri-urban areas. The installation of industries in rural areas, the deployment of agribusinesses and food exporters and utilization of rural labor for those industries, are tying the stretches between urban and rural areas. Thus, rural households are increasing income through agricultural and nonagricultural activities. The rural environment is no longer exclusively agricultural. It went on to have a diversified productive base and integrated economy in the region. The growing rural human being mobility, as well as an improvement in communication and access to information and greater integration between markets, reduces the dichotomy between urban and rural. On the other hand the expansion of the cultivation of sugar cane on a region can increase the (Gross National Product) GNP per capita of the region and enable an increase economical activity. Thus, the rural household pluri-activity can be an alternative to increase the income of these families as they, increasingly integrate with the local market. It is known that with rising incomes and improving the welfare of the rural population can reduce the rural exodus that became increasing in the country since the 1970s. However, in areas with predominantly or expansion of monoculture, as an example of cane sugar, may be an increased land concentration and a worsening of income distribution in a region, and to record an increasing in rural migration, Environmental degradation and reduced local production diversification. An analysis of several indicators, socio-economic and environmental, through the Dashboard of Sustainability is possible to tell which category has the highest rate of farmer sustainability, whether smallholders or monoculture. However, the secondary data available in Brazil today does not support a thorough analysis of the participation of each actor and to which the interconnection between the actors and their synergy in local economic activity. Since, given the narrowing between urban and rural, the statistical data available are not able to demonstrate the extent to which gives the rural-urban dichotomy. Thus, it is relevant to point out and discuss ways to provide consistent statistical data and be, in fact, able to demonstrate the local reality of a region within the welfare actors. Keywords: welfare; dichotomy; economic activity.