Year of publication 2014

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Pages 40 p.

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Author Statistics Division

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Publisher FAO ;

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Product type Document

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Access to timely, reliable and accurate data on food and agriculture is particularly important to monitor national trends and allow the formulation of decisions on national agricultural and food security policies. For this reason, nationally owned and reliable information systems with indicators on social, economic and natural resources are an indispensable basis for making decisions and to monitor food and agriculture policies. As a response to the declining state of agricultural st atistics in many countries, the CountrySTAT system was implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. CountrySTAT is a web-based system for food and agriculture statistics at national and sub-national levels. It supports multiple-sourced data integration and harmonization according to international standards and contributes to improve data quality and reliability. The analysis of data for Supply Utilization Accounts and Food Balance Sheets is facilitated in order to obtain derived indicators relevant to nutrition, food and agriculture.

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Language English

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Also available in:

• French

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