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African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS) RAF/AFCAS/07–REP/E African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS) Twentieth Session Algiers, Algeria 10 – 13 December 2007 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Africa Accra, Ghana February 2008 TABLE OF CONTENT PAGES ORIGIN AND GOALS, AFCAS PAST SESSIONS AND MEMBER COUNTRIES iii LIST OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 20th SESSION iv I. INTRODUCTION 1 I.1 Organisation of the Session 1 I.2 Opening Ceremony 1 I.3 Election of Officers 2 I.4 Adoption of Agenda 2 I.5 Closing Ceremony 2 I.6 Vote of sympathy to the Algerian Government following the tragic events during the Session 2 II. FAO ACTIVITIES IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RELEVANT TO AFRICA 3 REGION SINCE THE LAST SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (Item 4) III. STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SYSTEMS IN THE REGION 5 COUNTRIES (Item 5) IV. WORLD PROGRAMME FOR THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 2010 (WCA 2010) WITH 6 THE MODULAR AND INTEGRATED APPROACH (Item 6) V. MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPEMNT 6 PROGRAMMES – THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (Item 7) VI. REDUCING COST AND GEO-REFERENCING AGRICULTURAL SURVEY DATA IN AFRICA (Item 8) 7 VII. IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL DATA QUALITY AND ACCESSIBILITY (Item 9) 7 VIII. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FISHERY STATISTICS IN AFRICA (Item 10) 7 IX. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GENDER STATISTICS IN AFRICA (Item 11) 8 X. CONTRIBUTIONS OF PARTNERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS IN AFRICA (Item 12) 8 XI. ANY OTHER BUSINESS (Item 13) 9 ANNEXES 1. List of participants.……………………………………………………………… 10 2. Provisional programme …………………………………………………………. 22 3. Provisional agenda ………………………………………………………………. 26 4. Vote of Sympathy ……………………………………………………………….. 28 5. Report of the workshop …………………………………………………………. 39 6. Statements by Partners …………………………………………………………. 32 ii ORIGIN AND GOALS, PAST SESSIONS AND AFCAS (AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS) MEMBER COUNTRIES Origin of the African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS) During its 11th Session (1961), the FAO Conference approved the creation of the African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS). The Commission was subsequently established by the Director General in October 1962. Goals of the African Commission on Agricultural Statistics - Study the status of food and agricultural statistics in the region - Advice Member countries on the development and harmonization of agricultural statistics in the general context of FAO’s statistical activities - Organize meetings for study groups or other subsidiary bodies made up of national experts to achieve these goals. Past AFCAS Sessions - Twentieth Session – Algiers, Algeria, 10 – 13 December 2007 (immediately after the Technical Workshop, 8 – 9 December 2007) - Nineteenth Session – Maputo, Mozambique, 24 – 27 October 2005 (immediately after the Technical Workshop,22 – 23 October 2005) - Eighteenth Session – Yaoundé, Cameroon, 27 – 30 October 2003 (immediately after the Technical Workshop, 20 – 22 October 2003) - Seventeenth Session – Pretoria, South Africa, 27 – 30 November 2001 (immediately after the Technical Workshop, 22 – 26 November 2001) - Sixteenth Session - Conakry, Guinea, 28 July – 1 August 1999 (immediately after the Technical Workshop, 23 – 28 July 1999) - Fifteenth Session – Accra, Ghana, 28 – 31 October 1997 - Fourteenth Session – Dakar, Senegal, 21 – 25 March 1994 - Thirteenth Session – Gaborone, Botswana, 28 November – 16 December 1991 - Twelfth Session – Rabat, Morocco, 13 – 23 November 1989 - Eleventh Session – Arusha, Tanzania, 31 August – 4 September 1987 - Tenth Session – Port Louis, Mauritius, 26 – 30 March 1984 - Ninth Session – Lomé, Togo, 19 – 23 October 1981 - Eighth Session – Accra, Ghana, 29 May – 3 June 1978 - Seventh Session – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 28 January – 3 February1975 - Sixth Session – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12 – 17 November 1973 - Fifth Session – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 – 5 November 1971 - Fourth Session – Algiers, Algeria, 15 – 20 December 1969 - Third Session – Kampala, Uganda, 17 – 23 December 1966 - Second Session – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 24 August – 1 September 1964 - First Session – Tunis, Tunisia, 22 – 27 October 1962 AFCAS Member Countries Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. iii LIST OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 20th SESSION The commission has: 1. highly appreciated that FAO and the Consortium PARIS 21 (Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century) had once more, jointly organized another technical workshop on the integration and access to agricultural statistics for the formulation and monitoring of to rural development policies in Africa (on 8-9 December 2007), back-to-back of the 20th Session of AFCAS and had adopted the conclusions and recommendations of this workshop; 2. noted with satisfaction a positive trend in the establishment of statistical systems on food and agriculture in the African countries as well as in the use of statistics despite some observed weaknesses: poor human and financial resources, lack of appropriate methodologies, etc.; 3. recommended the pursuance by countries of previous efforts done for the improvement of the statistical systems for food and agriculture and to generate useful indicators for the users (like those related to food insecurity and the monitoring of MDGs); 4. boosted FAO to maintain its support to African countries for the establishment and enhancement of appropriated and renovated food and agricultural statistical systems; 5. recommended that FAO maintains its activities with other partners in order to adapt to the African context of the methodologies and concepts used in the international manual on Statistics on Rural Development and Agriculture Household Income and wished that the manual be translated in French (as the present version is only in English); 6. recommended FAO to assist member countries in the enhancement of the dialogue between statistical producers and users; 7. boosted member countries to improve their systems of data dissemination, by transforming available data into usable ones for decision makers and development planners; 8. asked FAO to assist member countries in the enhancement of their capacities in the use of new statistical concepts and appropriate tools for gathering and analysis of sex disaggregated data in view of gender issues; 9. recommended to give more time to countries for the completion of the questionnaire on the state of food and agricultural statistical systems in Africa; this would increase the response rate and also allow those who have not responded yet exhaustively to review non response cases and provide the information (this will also allow for the correction of eventual incoherencies observed into some questionnaires already filled and sent); to include in the next version of the “questionnaire” qualitative questions to enable appreciate certain replies better; once all the required information have been dealt with, to elaborate on a global report and a kind of pamphlet which could be used by countries as an advocacy tool for agricultural statistics activities and to provide countries with more detailed data and metadata issued from the questionnaire; 10. recommended that countries take reference on modular and integrated approach, as recommended by FAO, when elaborating and conducting their agriculture censuses; 11. recommended to FAO to provide their technical support to countries to enable them perform their agricultural census in accordance with the content of the World Programme for Census of Agricultural 2010; iv 12. encouraged countries to create strategies for establishing efficient links between agricultural census and population census without impacting on their respective quality results; 13. highly requested from FAO to pursue its work, through close collaboration with regional and sub regional institutions, on the way of conducting an agricultural census in coordination with a population census; 14. recommended FAO to take appropriate measures to provide countries with the new manual on Monitoring and Evaluation of Agriculture and Rural Development Programmes (this manual contains Indicators for tracking results in less-than-ideal conditions); 15. recommended FAO to organize, in partnership with other institutions, a high level technical experts consultation to validate the results of the pilot study on the use of GPS for measuring plot areas in order to reduce the costs of surveys and make appropriate recommendations; 16. recommended the establishment of metadata systems to provide detailed information on techniques used for generating statistics on prices (sampling, questionnaires, concepts, definitions) as well as the enhancement of countries capacities, not only to produce basic data, but also secondary statistics to increase the coherence on prices information; 17. recommended that countries share their experience in the field of on fishery and aquaculture statistics at different levels; 18. asked FAO to support the development
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