Organizer(s): FAO European Commission European Space Agency WFP GEOCLAM
Description: The European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (EC), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and GEOGLAM are co-organising the EO for Agriculture Under Pressure 2024 Workshop, which will take place in Frascati (Italy), from 13 to 16 May 2024.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants with theory and practice of quality in Official Statistics, in particular process and product quality. To this purpose, a brief overview of the ESS quality framework is given. Then, the focus of the course shifts on process and product quality measurement. The statistical process is described and tools for preventing and reducing the errors are presented and discussed. Methods and tools to assess the effect of non-sampling errors such as coverage, measurement and nonresponse errors in statistical products are widely described.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes involved in statistical production processes and in quality management.
Description: From 15 to 16 April, FAO organized a workshop in Rome to convene key national stakeholders to introduce them to the ASTI methodology and procedures as well as initiate dialogues between national agricultural research institutes (NARIs) and national statistical offices (NSOs). These dialogues aim to unveil and present the new data collection approach while deliberating on and exploring strategies for effective integration of ASTI into National Statistical System (NSS) mechanisms, a crucial step for providing collecting agencies with a clear mandate, ensuring quality, and official validation of the data.
Description: Join FAO on Thursday 21 March 13.00-18.00 CET for this hybrid series of technical sessions to find out about some of the outstanding innovations that are helping to protect forests and unlock the many benefits they bring.
Description: The first meeting of the fourth series of seminars, “Case studies on food and agricultural statistics” in conjunction with La Sapienza, will take place on Monday, February 26 at 6:00 p.m. in room 34 (fourth floor) of the Department of Statistical Sciences.
Description: Join FAO for the launch of the flagship report "The State of Food and Agriculture 2023", which will be held under the theme "Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems". Monday, 6 November 2023 | 12.30 – 14.00 (Rome hours) Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO headquarters and online | Register here The 2023 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report focuses on uncovering the hidden impacts of our agrifood systems for informed decision-making. It proposes true cost accounting (TCA) as an approach to quantify the hidden costs and benefits of our agrifood systems. Using TCA, this report provides a first attempt at quantifying the environmental, social and health hidden costs of agrifood systems for 154 countries. The findings are a starting point to stimulate debate and dialogue among agrifood systems actors. This initial quantification can be improved based on country-specific information and input from in-country stakeholders and experts, to guide in-depth analyses for transformative actions at country-level. The 2024 edition of the report will continue on this theme and focus on case studies to highlight the flexibility of this approach to support sustainable agrifood systems transformation. Opened by the FAO Director-General, the high-level panelists will share their experiences in addressing these hidden costs of agrifood systems, highlighting the importance of measuring and integrating them into decision-making in order to improve the value of agrifood systems. A discussion will follow on how the TCA approach can reinforce the environmental, social and economic sustainability of agrifood systems. Interpretation will be provided in all UN languages. Previous editions of the series The State of Food and Agriculture are available here.
Description: The fifty-first plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 51) will be held from 23 to 27 October 2023 in a hybrid format.
Description: WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).
Organizer(s): FAO International Food Policy Research Institute
Description: The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) event is the soft launch of a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, which is suitable for use by national statistical...
Description: The demand for analyzing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment and employment. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. At the same time, new measures of the labour market are evolving through the adoption of statistical standards by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). The 19th and 20th ICLS resolutions on work statistics are crucial for decent work related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. The analysis of labour market data relies on the availability of data, which has expanded in recent years, and the use of appropriate methodologies to identify key factors and trends relevant to evidence-based policymaking. In this regard, analysts and statisticians depend on statistical software that provides a user-friendly approach to data management, description, graphics and analysis. STATA is such a tool, which is powerful but easy-touse, and is utilized across the world for analysing labour market data. Building on its long experience in delivering training on labour market statistics, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics is proud to offer the training Advanced STATA for labour market analysis. Harnessing the latest ground-breaking learning technologies, the ITCILO is proudly offering this course as face to face activity in Turin in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions in charge of SDG statistical monitoring; - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations; and - Officials responsible for managing the production and dissemination of labour market statistics, particularly for the SDG national reporting.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): European Statistical Advisory Committee Eurostat European Central Bank Federation of European National Statistical Societies Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy ISTAT Italy Bank of Italy Società Italiana di Statistica
Description: The scope of the Conference is to enhance the dialogue between European methodologists, producers, and users of European Statistics identifying the requirements of the users (ESAC), the best practices of the production (EUROSTAT, ECB, ISTAT, Banca d’Italia), with innovative ways of official statistics production based on Statistics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and based on new methodological ideas for collecting and analysing data (Accademia via FENStatS).
Description: The event will showcase the innovative work of FAO and its partners to understand the interlinked challenges facing forests and forest-proximate peoples worldwide.
Description: United Nations Committee of Experts on Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Statistics (UN-CEAG) Task Team on "Food consumption statistics from household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES)"
Description: With the world facing a worsening food and cost-of-living crisis caused by the interlinked shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and all armed conflicts - including in Ukraine – CFS will convene its 50th Plenary session (CFS 50) in a ‘hybrid’ format at FAO Headquarters in Rome, 10-13 October 2022. The 50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be held from 10 to 13 October 2022. CFS 50 will feature a full-day ministerial segment on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis – The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022; endorse newly agreed Policy Recommendations on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition; and focus on boosting responsible investment in sustainable agriculture and food systems through a Global Thematic Event on the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems. Additionally, the Plenary will celebrate the International Day of Rural Women; review the work of CFS and its HLPE-FSN toward 2030; and kickstart the workstream on data collection and analysis for food security and nutrition. CFS 50 events related to data and statistics: Monday 10 October (13:30-14:45) SE02: The cost and affordability of a healthy diet: data and analysis to inform agrifood systems transformation One of the key reasons why millions of people are food insecure and malnourished around the world is because healthy diets are out of reach and unaffordable. Diet quality is a critical link between food security and nutrition. Since 2020 FAO has been updating the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet indicator (CoAHD), and is working closely with member countries to develop national and sub-national data that can provide evidence for the formulation of policies oriented to reducing the cost and improve the affordability of healthy diets. This Side Event will share country members experiences regarding the use of CoAHD data, and the implementation of policies for increasing the availability and affordability of nutritious foods, as part of the main national efforts towards the transformation of agrifood systems. Tuesday 11 October (15:00-18:00) Data Collection and Analysis Tools Presentation of the HLPE-FSN Report on Data Collection and Analysis Tools. CFS stakeholders will be given the opportunity to provide feedback and inputs on the content of the report in view of the CFS policy convergence process on Data Collection and Analysis Tools. Thursday 13 October (08:30-09:45) SE28: Future-Proofing Soils: The role of youth and actionable data Soil health continues to decline globally at an alarming rate despite our improved understanding of the interconnectedness of soil health, food production, climate, and biodiversity. While the development of new soil health measurement technologies has led to sophisticated and comprehensive knowledge and data management systems, the adoption of soil health improvement practices remains low in many regions worldwide. In this session, we will hear from young farmers, researchers, and entrepreneurs how field-level data and innovations can be made more accessible and actionable to accelerate the adoption of practices that will improve soil health. The session will also discuss collaborative public-private solutions that could enable the next generation to better respond and adapt to crises such as adverse weather or crop input shortages. Last but not least, it will explore how public policy can help overcome the gap between evidence and uptake of soil health improvement practices at the farm level.
