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Action plan of the global strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics

for food security, sustainable agriculture and rural development

Year of publication 2012

Author Statistics Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category FAO strategy / plan / policy / roadmap

ISBN 978925107371

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Global Action Plan provides the framework needed to rebuild a sustainable national statistical capacity to produce agricultural statistics and increase their use for better policy decisions.

Language English

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