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    This document presents the report of the twenty-first session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) held in Phuket, Thailand from 11 to 15 September 2006. Attended by some 60 delegates from 20 member countries, the session assessed both the current status of food and agriculture statistics in member countries and progress on strengthening regional data exchange on food and agricultural statistics in the region. The meeting reported on CountrySTAT – a new web-base d system that integrates national food and agricultural statistical information to ensure harmonization of national data and metadata collections – which had been installed in the Philippines. CountrySTAT also serves as a source of country-level data for FAOSTAT, improving its capacity to provide high quality statistical data at the international level. The meeting also reported on FAO's World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010. New features include the role of the census in helping mo nitor Millennium Development Goals and an option to widen the scope of the census to cover aquaculture and other rural activities, among others. Recommendations of the session are included in the report.
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    This document presents the report of the twenty-third session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics held in Siem Reap, Cambodia from 26 to 30 April 2010. Attended by some 60 delegates from 16 member countries, the session assessed both the current status of food and agriculture statistics in member countries and progress on strengthening regional data exchange on food and agricultural statistics in the region. The session was informed about a new global strategy to improv e agricultural and rural statistics, an initiative of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). A roundtable discussion on statitical capacity building was held, focusing on countries' training needs and constraints. The Commission reported on implementation of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010 (WCA 2010) in Asia and the Pacific region. Other topics included gender statistics for agricultural and rural development in the region, implementation of CountrySTAT and agri cultural statistics relating to the environment. Recommendations of the session are included in the report.
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    This publication presents the outcome of the twenty-fourth session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics held in Da Lat, Viet Nam from 8 to 12 October 2012. Attended by over 65 delegates from 21 member countries, the session assessed both the current status of food and agriculture statistics in member countries and progress in monitoring country capacity to produce agricultural statistics. The session was informed about progress made in implementation of the global strate gy to improve agricultural and rural statistics in the region and the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA) 2010, including recommendations for improving WCA 2020. Other topics discussed were new methodological developments in food security statistics to ensure a more realistic estimation of the undernourished population and recent advances in economic, social and environmental statistics in the agricultural sector, such as recent efforts by FAO to include greenhouse gas emission d ata in FAOSTAT.

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