Global Strategy Research Outputs and New Methodologies. Carola Fabi TA and Training Coordinator Global Strategy - Rome

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1 Global Strategy Research Outputs and New Methodologies Carola Fabi TA and Training Coordinator Global Strategy - Rome

2 Outline Recalling the goal of research programme Implementation modalities and progress Major results and new developments Challenges Requested feedback

3 Goal of the Research programme Action plan: how does it work? Addressing urgent needs Sector Plans (SPARS) Country assessments incl. Assessment Technical Assistance Training Research: cost-effective methods; guidelines

4 Goal of the Research programme contribute to significant improvement in quality, reliability, cost- effectiveness of agricultural statistics in developing countries By: developing cost-effective methods (new methodological and technological developments) documenting, consolidating and disseminating good practices inputs for developing guidelines, handbooks and training materials for Technical Assistance and Training

5 Implementation modalities Several approaches adopted in 2014 will all continue: outsourcing through LoAs to universities complementarity and synergy with other research initiatives FAO partner divisions, direct implementation

6 Implementation modalities Electronic publications for immediate access and use of : Technical reports: reviewed by SAC Working papers: a new series of expertreviewed papers Advanced draft guidelines and handbook Joint publications with other partner institutions (WB - LSMS, JRC, UNSD, etc) Handbook and Guidelines

7 Progress by Theme THEME 1: Framework for agricultural statistics SEEA-Agri: Handbook on System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture-Forestry-Fisheries Integrated Survey Framework: Guidelines AGRIS: integrated survey toolkit THEME 2: Improving methods for MSF 3 Technical reports Handbook on MSF: by Dec 2015 Country practices: by Dec 2015 Field Tests: started in Nepal, Rwanda, Guatemala. Open souce Software package. Development started in 2015.

8 Progress by Theme THEME 3: Improving data collection methods Cost of Production: Draft Guidelines published. Training material under development Post Harvest Loss: Report 1: literature review. Report 2: A review of methods for estimating grain post-harvest losses: Available Report 3: methodological options, and protocols for field testing the proposed methodologies. Technology for data collection: CAPI developed by World Bank/LSMS team with support of GS. Available and fully functional. Use in Ag censuses and surveys will be tested in 2015

9 Progress by Theme THEME 4: Improving methods for estimating livestock and livestock products Livestock and livestock products (UNE): Report 1: Literature review. Available Report 2: Gaps analysis and proposals. Available Guidelines on Nomadic Livestock: To be published by Dec THEME 5: Improving food security statistics methods Improving Methodology for Food Balance Sheets: Draft TR by Dec Improving methods for measuring food consumption: Collection of research paper by Dec 2015

10 Progress by Theme THEME 6: Improving methods for crop estimates Estimation of crop area, yield, and production (IASRI): - Report 1: Literature review. Under editing. - Report 2: Gap Analysis and Proposed Methodologies. Available - Pilot tests being organised Methods for estimating yields of root crops (WB/LSMS): THEME 7: Improving the methodology for using remote sensing Cost-efficiency of remote sensing in developing countries: Technical report under editing. Methods for using land cover/land use databases: Technical report available

11 Progress by Theme THEME 8: Improving quality and use of administrative data Report 1: Literature review. Published Report 2, 3: Administrative Data in Developed Countries, Agricultural Administrative Sources used by Developing Countries. Available Report 4: Data Gaps and proposed improvements. Available Pilot tests being organised THEME 9: Indicators and collection methods for small scale fisheries DRAFT Guidelines to Enhance Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics Through a Census Framework published THEME 10: Better integration of geographic information and statistics: Spatial disaggregation and integration of various kinds of geographical information and geo-referenced survey data: published.

12 Major Results Technical reports (TR) 6 published 2 undergoing editing 8 additional reports for end 2015 Guidelines (GL) and Handbooks (HB) 8 published 4 additional publications for end Guidelines produced under the AMIS project Working papers in published (admin, PHL, Crops)

13 New Developments New Themes AGRIS methodology finalisation and testing Gender disaggregated data Rural statistics Farm typologies Horticulture Data reconciliation of censuses and surveys Forestry Products Statistics Publications in Technical Reports 8 Guidelines

14 Some challenges Funding gap: Rural statistics, Agri-environmental indicators, Funding Agriculture stats, Users needs, Data dissemination Limited availability of high level expertise in some fields Organising country pilot tests: timing, synergies, national priorities Connecting research topics that are running independently Research outputs are living documents

15 Scenarios in the second half of the Action Plan AFTER AFTER AFTER AFTER

16 Thank You