Regional Training Course on Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics, Communication and Advocacy for Statistics
26– 30 June 2017, Daejeon Republic of Korea
Objectives
The training course is divided into two parts: (a) Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics and (b) Communication and Advocacy for Statistics.
The objective of the Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics component training is to strengthen the technical capacity of statistical producers (statistical offices and other institutions) to apply relevant international comparable methods and standards in the compilation of agricultural cost of production statistics by:
・ Equipping participants with the knowledge and techniques to design data collection schemes for farm level data related to costs, farm structures etc. to meet the needs of various users;
・ Increasing understanding of various types of costs related to agricultural operations and associated estimation methods.
The specific objectives of the Communication and Advocacy for Statistics component are to:
・ Increase understanding of the communication and advocacy issues between the data producer and user that have an impact on the effective use of data for SDG monitoring, policy research and analysis and policy formulation and monitoring;
・ Guide countries in developing a communication and advocacy strategy for promoting awareness of the role of agricultural and rural statistics for policy making and evaluation.
| Reference Materials | |
|---|---|
Module 1: Global processes on SDG and FAO’s Role on Monitoring SDG’s related with Food and Agriculture | |
| Session 1.1: SDG Indicators related to Food and Agriculture | |
| Session 1.2: Food Security Indicators under SDG Goal 2: Prevalence of Undernourishment; Indicator 2.1.1 | |
| Session 1.3: Food Insecurity Experience Scale-Indicator 2.1.2 | pdf pdf |
| Session 1.5: Demonstration Work on tools for Monitoring Food Security (SDG 2) (Indicator 2.1.1) | |
Module 2: Country national statistical system | |
| Session 2.1: Republic of Korea Statistical System | |
Module 3: Key concepts of Agricultural Costs of Production | |
| Session 3.1: Dimensions of production costs, analytical units, indicators and statistical tables | |
| Session 3.2：Data collection Mechanisms： A review of survey approaches and methods | |
Module 4: Determination of cash, labour and land costs Session | |
| Session 4.1: Determination of cash costs | |
| Session 4.2: Estimation of cash, labour and land costs Functions | |
Module 5: Structure of Capital Costs | |
| Session 5.1：Different types of capital goods in agriculture and the estimation of capital costs | |
| Session 5.2: Determining the cost and revenues from agricultural production | |
| Session 5.4: Allocating pre-productive costs in multi-year enterprises | |
Module 6: Devising an advocacy, communication and dissemination strategy | |
| Session 6.1: Advocacy Issues, Goals | |
| Session 6.2 : Advocacy Capacity & Partners | |
| Session 6.3 : Developing messages, means of communications and dissemination | |
| Country Presentations | |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | |
| Bangladesh | |
| Bhutan | |
| China | |
| Fiji | |
| India | |
| Indonesia | |
| Lao PDR | |
| Maldives | |
| Mongolia | |
| Samoa | |
| Solomon Islands | |
| Sri Lanka | |
| Thailand | |
| Vanuatu | |
| Viet Nam | |