| Day before - 22 October | |
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| 19:00 21:00 | Cocktail reception, registration and material distribution (Terrace) |
| Day One - 23 October | |||
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| 08:00 09:00 | Registration and material distribution (Foyer) | ||
| 09:00 10:00 | Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech (Velasquez auditorium) | ||
| Chair: | Wasmália Bivar, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) | ||
| Welcome remarks: | |||
| International Statistical Institute (ISI) | |||
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |  |
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| Uited Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) | |||
| Brazilian Ministry of Budget and Planning (MP) | |||
| Keynote speaker: | Romulo Paes de Sousa (Rio+ Centre), "Food security, sustainable agriculture and rural development - inherently paradoxical?" | ||
| 10:00 11:00 | Plenary Session 1: Progress in Implementing the Global Strategy (Velasquez auditorium) | ||
| Organizer: | Christophe Duhamel, FAO | ||
| Chair: | Arturo Blancas Espejo, INEGI Mexico | ||
| Speakers: | Christophe Duhamel (FAO), "Overview of the implementation of the Global Strategy" | ||
| Oliver Chinganya (AfDB), Joseph Ilboudo (UNECA), "Implementation of the African Action Plan" |  |
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| Mukesh Srivastava (FAO), "Implementation of the Asia-Pacific Plan" | |
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| 11:00 11:30 | Tea/Coffee (Foyer) | ||
| 11:30 13:00 | Parallel Technical Sessions 1 | ||
| Technical Session 1.1: APN 1 - Environmental Issues (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizers: | Eszter Horvath, UNSD and Johan Selenius, EUROSTAT | ||
| Chair: | Johan Selenius, EUROSTAT | ||
| papers: | Ogada Maurice Juma (Kenya), "Technical Efficiency of Kenya's Smallholder Food Crop Farmers: Do Environmental Factors Matter?" |
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| Adrian Leip, Wolfgang Britz, Claudia Bulgheroni et al. (Italy), "CAPRI: a spatial assessment tool for agri-environmental indicators in the EU" |
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| Robert Mayo, Carl Obst (FAO), Gary Jones (IMF), "Application of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework and SEEA Experimental Ecosystems Accounting at FAO: Preliminary Findings and Ongoing Work" |
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| Technical Session 1.2: IDCB 1 - Indicators on Country Capacity to Produce Agriculture Statistics (Salvador Dali room) | |||
| Organizers: | Mukesh Srivastava, FAO and Mark R Miller, USDA/NASS | ||
| Chair: | Mukesh Srivastava, FAO | ||
| papers: | Mukesh K. Srivastava (FAO) Michael Trant (Canada), "A Framework for Assessing Country Capacity to Produce Agricultural and Rural Statistics" |
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| Oliver Chinganya, Vincent Ngendakumana, Ben Kiregyera (Tunisia), "Assessing the Capacity and Needs of Countries to Produce Agricultural Data – the African Experience" |
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| Jairo Castaño (FAO), "Assessing Country Capacity for the Production of Agricultural Statistics in Asia and the Pacific" |
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| Veronica Boero (FAO), "Countries Capacity to Produce Agricultural and Rural Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean" |
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| Irina Goryacheva (CISSTAT), Giorgi Kvinikadze (FAO), "Experiences of Initial Country Assessment in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)" |
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| Technical Session 1.3: SPP 1 - Master Frames for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (El Greco and Goya room) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Elisabetta Carfagna, FAO | ||
| papers: | Pietro Gennari, Piero Demetrio Falorsi (FAO), "Indirect Sampling as a Strategy for Building and Updating the Master Sampling Frame for Integrated Agricultural Surveys: a General Approach for Designing Unbiased Sampling Strategies" |
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| Javier Gallego (Spain), "The use of a point sampling as a master frame for agricultural statistics" |
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| Aberash Tariku Abaye (Ethiopia), "Master sampling frames for agricultural and rural statistics in Ethiopia" |
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| Nomzwakhe Sephoko, Limakatso Matsoso, Machitja Raphoto (Lesotho), "Master Sampling Frames for Agricultural and Rural Statistics - Experience of Lesotho" |
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| 13:00 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 16:00 | Parallel Technical Sessions 2 | ||
| Technical Session 2.1: APN 2 - Understanding the Nexus Gender - Agriculture through Better Data (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Talip Kilic, The World Bank | ||
| papers: | Gbemisola Oseni, Paul Winters, Markus Goldstein et al. (USA), "Explaining Gender Differentials in Agricultural Production in Nigeria" |
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| Alberto Zezza (Italy), "Of Men, Women, and Livestock. Gender Differences in the Ownership and Management of Livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa" |
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| Esha Sraboni, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing et al. (Bangladesh), "Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Improving Food Security in Bangladesh?" |
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| Cheryl Doss (USA), "Gender Inequities in Ownership and Control of Land in Africa: Myth and Reality" |
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| Technical Session 2.2: IDCB 4 - Administrative Data (Salvador Dali room) | |||
| Organizers: | Jeffrey Smith, STATCAN and Marcel Ernens, EUROSTAT | ||
| Chair: | Jeffrey Smith, STATCAN | ||
| papers: | Phiri Innocent Pangapanga, Shelton Kanyanda (Malawi), "Administrative data and survey: would the use of agricultural records become a substitute for survey undertakings in Malawi?" |
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| Daniel G. Beckler (USA), "Administrative Data Used by the National Agricultural Statistics Service" |
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| A. Reale, M. Riani, M. Greco et al. (Italy), "Use of administrative data for outlier detection in the VI Italian agriculture census" |
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| Jeffrey Smith, Martin Beaulieu, Erin Smith et al. (Canada), "Recent Developments in the use of administrative data in the production of agriculture statistics" |
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| Ann-Marie Karlsson, Anders Grönvall (Sweden), "The usefulness of quality frameworks when deciding on replacing surveys with administrative registers - the case of the Swedish sheep register" |
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| Technical Session 2.3: SPP 2 - Survey Design and Sampling Strategies for Agricultural Surveys (El Greco and Goya room) | |||
| Organizers: | Renee Picanso, USDA/NASS and Zelia Bianchini, IBGE | ||
| Chair: | Zelia Bianchini, IBGE | ||
| Discussant: | Michael Steiner, USDA | ||
| papers: | Marcos Freitas, MaurÃcio Lila, Vera Santos et al. (Brazil), "Brazilian Agricultural Survey System - a description of sampling methods" |
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| Carlos Alberto Rossi (Argentina), "Redesign of the National Agricultural Survey in Argentina: changes in the sampling frame and data collection" |
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| Mónica Madrid Arroyo (Colombia), "Statistical Methodologies for Development of Colombian Agricultural Statistical System" |
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| 16:00 16:30 | Tea/Coffee (Foyer) | ||
| 16:30 18:00 | Plenary session 2: Rural Development in the 21st Century: Policy Options and Data Gaps (Velasquez auditorium) | ||
| Organizers: | Gero Carletto, The World Bank and Flavio Bolliger, IBGE | |
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| Chair: | Gero Carletto, The World Bank | ||
| Panel: | Mary Bohman (ERS/USDA), "Rural Development Policy Issues and Data Needs" | |
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| Pietro Gennari (FAO), "Rural Statistics: Current Gaps and Improvement Perspectives" | |
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| William Martin , (The World Bank and International Association of Agricultural Economists), "Agricultural Statistics for Development" | |
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| Maximo Torero (IFPRI), "Rural Development in the 21st Century: Policy Options and Data Gaps" | |
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| Day Two - 24 October | |||
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| 09:00 10:30 | Parallel Technical Sessions 3 | ||
| Technical Session 3.1: APN 3 - Measuring Welfare in Developing Countries in Practice: Beyond Income and Besides Consumption (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Luc Christiaensen, The World Bank | ||
| papers: | Rodolfo Hoffmann, Régis Borges de Oliveira (Brazil), "The evolution of income distribution in Brazil: different characteristics of the agricultural sector" |
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| Edoardo Pizzoli, Chiara Piccini, Giuseppe Sacco et al. (Italy), "Spatial estimation of households' income and well-being, applying geostatistics to micro data" |
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| Anoubissi Jean De Dieu (Cameroon), "Measuring countries flow of welfare acros time" |
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| Isis Gaddis (Tanzania), Stephan Klasen (Germany), "Mapping Multidimensional and Monetary Poverty: The Case of Uganda" |
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| Diana Lee, Luc Christiaensen, Gero Carletto (USA), "Tracking welfare and poverty with predictors - evidence from Malawi" |
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| Technical Session 3.2: IDCB 3 - Carrying out in-depth assessment of agricultural statistics systems for building strategies for improvement (Salvador Dali room) | |||
| Organizers: | Mukesh Srivastava, FAO and Mark R Miller, USDA/NASS | ||
| Chair: | Mark R Miller, USDA/NASS | ||
| papers: | Mukesh Srivastava (FAO), "Designing the In-depth Capacity Assessments to Produce Agricultural and Rural Statistics" |
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| Mariam ATJ Mapila, Klaus Droppelmann, Isaac Chirwa et al. (Malawi), "Landscape Analysis of the Agricultural Statistics' Sector in Malawi" |
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| Mwahib Elseid, Nuha Mahammed (Sudan), "Status of agricultural statistics in Sudan" |
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| Zhiquan Xu, Wei Zhou (China), "China's Capacity Assessment to Produce Agricultural Statistics" |
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| Technical Session 3.3: SPP 4 - Crop and Yield Forecasting (El Greco and Goya room) | |||
| Organizers: | Naman Keita, FAO, Nancy Chin, FAO and Javier Gallego, EC/JRC | ||
| Chairs: | Naman Keita, FAO and Javier Gallego, EC/JRC | ||
| papers: | Jean Baptiste Habyarimana, Dr. Tugrul Temel, Enock Ching'anda et al. (Rwanda), "Crop Yield Estimation with Farmers' Appraisal on Weather Condition" |
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| U C Sud, Hukum Chandra (India), "On Precise Estimation of Crop Yield at Smaller Area Level by Integrating Agricultural Survey Data and Population Census Data Through Use Of Spatial Models" |
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| Nansubuga Resty (Uganda), "Reliability of rainfall for crop production. A case study in Uganda" |
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| Bettina Baruth (EC/JRC), "MCYFS - MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System, Crop monitoring in Europe" | |||
| 10:30 11:00 | Tea/Coffee (Foyer) | ||
| 11:00 12:30 | Parallel Technical Sessions 4 | ||
| Technical Session 4.1: APN 4 - The Challenges of Measuring Labor and Employment in Developing Economies (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Katheen Beegle, The World Bank | ||
| papers: | Blagica Novkovska (Republic of Macedonia ), "Defining and Measuring Non-standard and Informal Employment in Agricultural Sector" |
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| Joachim De Weerdt (Tanzania), "Urbanisation and Youth Employment: the importance of tracking migrants in surveys" |
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| Marcia Maria Melo Quintslr (Brazil), "New recommendations for labour statistics" | |
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| Technical Session 4.2: IDCB 2 - Enhancing the Credibility of Survey Data through Better Quality Data (Salvador Dali room) | |||
| Organizers: | Barbara Rater, USDA/NASS and Gero Carletto, The World Bank | ||
| Chair: | Barbara Rater, USDA/NASS | ||
| papers: | Zaza Chelidze (Georgia), Barbara Rater, Michael Steiner (USA) "Improving Data Quality in Agricultural Statistics in Georgia" |
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| Aberash Tariku Abaye (Ethiopia), "Ethiopian Data Quality Assesement Frame Work (EDQAF)" |
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| Diakité Souleymane (Senegal), "Statistical methods for the detection of falsified data by interviewers and application survey data in Africa" |
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| Jonathan G. Kastelic (USA), "Improving Survey Efficacy Through Data Management and Remote Supervision: Experience from Recent Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys" |
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| Linda J. Young, Denise A. Abreu, Andrea C. Lamas et al. (USA), "Identifying, Reducing, and Accounting for Misclassification Errors in Farm Status" |
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| Technical Session 4.3: SPP 5 - New Developments in Livestock and Fishery Statistics (El Greco and Goya room) | |||
| Organizers: | Alberto Zezza, The World Bank and Flavio Bolliger, IBGE | ||
| Chair: | David Babalola, Nigeria NBS | ||
| papers: | Guilherme Guimaraes Moreira, Marcos Paulo Soares de Freitas, Antonio José Ribeiro Dias et al. (Brazil), "Fishery Statistical Metodology: Onboard Fishing" |
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| Sachiko Tsuji (FAO), "œHow to integrate Agricultural Census with regular data collection of aquaculture and fishery statistics" |
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| Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross (USA), "Integrating data from different sources: Improved spatially-disaggregated livestock measures for Uganda" |
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| Ugo Pica-Ciamarra (FAO), Alberto Zezza (USA), Derek Baker (Kenya) et al. "Questions that Count: A Livestock Module for Multi-topic Household Surveys" |
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| Alberto Zezza, Giovanni Federighi (Italy), Gero Carletto (USA) "Milking the data: Measuring Income from Milk Production in Extensive Livestock Systems. Experimental Evidence from Niger" |
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| 12:30 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 15:00 | Plenary session 3: APN - Environmental Issues (Velasquez auditorium) | ||
| Organizers: | Johan Selenius, EUROSTAT and Eszter Horvath, UNSD | ||
| Chair: | Eszter Horvath, UNSD | ||
| papers/speakers: | Ademar Romeiro (Unicamp) "Greening agriculture in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication" |
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| Dale Andrew (OECD), Robert Mayo (FAO), Johan Selenius (Eurostat), "Frameworks for agro-environmental statistics in support of sustainable development" | |
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| 15:00 16:00 | Poster Session | ||
| Organizer: | Leonardo Maya, IBGE | ||
| 16:00 16:30 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 16:30 18:00 | Parallel Technical Sessions 5 | ||
| Technical Session 5.1: APN 6 - Agricultural Prices and Markets (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Jacques Delincé, EC - Joint Research Centre | ||
| papers: | Yegnanew Alem Shiferaw (Ethiopia), "Modeling Volatility of Price of Some Selected Agricultural Products in Ethiopia: ARIMA-GARCH Applications" |
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| Lovemore Nyongo (Malawi), "Maize price differences and evidence of spatial integration in Malawi: The case of selected markets" |
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| Mahamadou Tankari, Anatole Goundan, Ousmane Badiane (Senegal), "Predicting the future trajectory of domestic price response to world market shocks" |
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| Abdinardo Oliveira, Júlia Matos, Brenna Souza (Brazil), "Management of market risk for fruits: propositions, analyses and reflections on Juazeiro Market Producer, Bahia, Brazil" |
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| Technical Session 5.2: IDCB 5 - Agriculture Structure - Development of a Harmonized Farm Typology for Policy Analysis (Salvador Dali room) | |||
| Organizer and chair: | Mary Ahearn, USDA/ERS | ||
| papers: | Mukesh K Srivastava, Giorgi Kvinikadze, Adriana Neciu (FAO), "Developing Farm Typologies: For whom and how?" |
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| Eloi Ouedraogo (FAO), Ankouvi Mawoudoudji Nayo (Ivory Coast), "Agricultural holdings typology construction using agricultural census data: what typology and what variables to be selected for robust typology?" |
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| Wagner Soares (Brazil), Steven Helfand (USA), "Agricultural statistics, agricultural policy and typology of producers in the Brazilian context" |
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| Katrin Nagelschmitz (Canada), Hugo Hernandez Ramos (Mexico), Mary Ahearn (USA) et al., "Farm Classification Systems for North American Agriculture" |
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| Technical Session 5.3: SPP 3 - New Technologies for Data Collection for Agricultural Surveys and Statistics (El Greco and Goya room) | |||
| Organizer: | Mark Harris, USDA/NASS | ||
| Chair: | Andrea Lamas, USDA/NASS | ||
| papers: | Fenghua Wei (China), "The applications of high-tech means in China agricultural surveys" |
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| Jaki S. McCarthy (USA), "Field Data Collection for an Area Frame Survey using iPads, the USDA's June Area Survey" |
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| Sarah Nusser (USA), "Geospatial data collection in the US National Resources Inventory" |
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| Susana Pérez Cadena (Mexico), "National Agricultural Survey" |
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| 20:00 | Social Dinner | ||
| Day Three - 25 October | ||||
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| 09:00 10:30 | Plenary session 4: The Role of Agricultural Censuses (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer: | Pietro Gennari, FAO | |||
| paper: | Naman Keita (FAO), "Vision for the 2020 round of Agricultural Census" | |
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| Discussants: | Fred Vogel (International Consultant), "A New paradigm for agricultural statistics - a world without censuses" | |
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| Jean-Michel Durr (International Consultant), "Lessons for the Agricultural Census from innovations in the Population Census methodology" | |
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| 10:30 11:00 | Tea/Coffee (Foyer) | |||
| 11:00 12:30 | Parallel Technical Sessions 6 | |||
| Technical Session 6.1: APN 5 - Measuring Contract Farming (Velasquez auditorium) | ||||
| Organizer: | James MacDonald, USDA/ERS | |||
| Chair: | Flavio Bolliger, IBGE | |||
| Discussant: | Carlos Antonio Moreira Leite , UFV | |||
| papers: | Decio Zylbersztajn (Brazil), "Empirical Research in Contracts: Watch your step" |
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| William McBride (USA), "Assessing Production Contracts in U.S. Hog Production" |
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| Marcelo Miele (Brazil), "Contracts in Brazilian pork and poultry meat chains: implications for measuring agricultural statistics" |
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| André Bastos, Márcia Moraes (Brazil), "Vertical Integration and Sugarcane Production Costs in Brazilian Regions" |
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| Technical Session 6.2: IDCB 6 - Reconciling Data and Integrating Systems (Salvador Dali room) | ||||
| Organizer and chair: | Jacques Delincé, EC - Joint Research Centre | |||
| papers: | Pratap Narain (India), "Integrated System for Food and Agriculture decision makers" |
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| Vladimir Bougay (USA), Ayca Donmez (Spain), "Global Agriculture Repository & Africa Food Price Volatility Project" |
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| Vladimir Eskin, Sophie Hélaine, Robert M'barek (Belgium), "DataM: integrating global agricultural datasets" |
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| Technical Session 6.3: SPP 6 - Census and Dissemination (El Greco and Goya room) | ||||
| Organizers: | Susana Pérez Cadena, Mauricio Rebolledo Loaiza, INEGI | |||
| Chair: | Arturo Blancas Espejo, INEGI | |||
| papers: | Edmund Kibuuka, Moses Mnyaka (South Africa), "Agricultural censuses: importance, challenges and opportunities in the developing world" |
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| Jerzy Banski (Poland), "Atlas of Polish Agriculture as example of statistics utilisation for decision making" |
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| Filippo Gheri, Michael Kao, Amy Heyman (FAO), "Efficiency and Effectiveness: The FAO Statistical Yearbook" |
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| Salih Hamza Abu-El-Yamen (Sudan), "Towards Bridging the Gap between Data Production and Data Utilization" |
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| Mauricio Rebolledo Loaiza (Mexico), "Agricultural geo-statistical information query system" |
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| 12:30 14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 15:30 | Parallel Technical Sessions 7 | |||
| Technical Session 7.1: APN 7 - Food Security (Velasquez auditorium) | ||||
| Organizer and chair: | Cheryl Christensen, USDA/ERS | |||
| papers: | Erdgin Mane, José VallsBedeau, Gary Jones (FAO), "The Evolving FAO Investment Dataset: Statistics Resource Flows to Agriculture" |
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| Ankush Agrawal, Nilabja Ghosh, Badri S Bhandari (India), "Availability of Food and Nutrients in India: The Food Balance Sheet Approach" |
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| Elisabetta Aurino (United Kingdom), "An econometric approach to estimate country food security" |
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| Sarah Andrade, Mônica Pires, Valéria, Santos et al. (Brazil), "Food security: analysis on basic basket´s items prices in the Northeast region of Brazil" |
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| Juliane Perini, Carmem Bocchi, Marconi Sousa et al. (Brazil), "Data SAN - Multidimensional Data and Indicators for Food and Nutrition Security in Brazil" |
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| Technical Session 7.2: IDCB 7 - Estimates, forecasts, expert opinions and assessment - their role in the official statistics on agriculture (Salvador Dali room) | ||||
| Organizer and chair: | Flavio Bolliger, IBGE | |||
| papers: | Miguel Galmés (Uruguay), "Integrating expert opinion in agricultural statistics" |
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| Hubert Hamer Jr. (USA), "Weekly Crop Progress and Condition at USDA-NASS" |
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| Naman Keita, Nancy Chin (FAO), "The place of 'Assessment' in current agricultural statistics for developing countries: Making best use of available information for timely crop production estimates in the absence of an system of agricultural sample surveys" |
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| Elisabetta Carfagna (FAO), Andrea Carfagna (Independent Consultant), "Appropriate Survey Methods Different Country Profiles - Key Challenges, Gaps and Remaining Methodological Issues" |
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| Technical Session 7.3: SPP 7 - Remote Sensing Technology (El Greco and Goya room) | ||||
| Organizer: | Jeff Bailey, USDA/NASS | |||
| Chair: | Denise Abreu, USDA/NASS | |||
| papers: | Francisco Javier Gallego (Italy), "Alternatives to Medium Resolution Images for Crop Area Estimation: Very High and Coarse Resolution" |
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| Xinhua Yu (China), "Using Remote Sensing Cropland Classification Data to Update Area Sampling Frame" |
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| João Henrique Buschin, Otávio Celidonio, Daniel Ferreira et al. (Brazil), "Measurement of avoided deforestation in the pasture areas in Mato Grosso" |
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| James M Harris, Rick Mueller (USA), "Web Accessibility, Visualization, and Analytics for a National Cropland Data Layer Program" |
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| 15:30 16:00 | Tea/Coffee (Foyer) | |||
| 16:00 17:30 | Plenary session 5: Food Security: Food Insecurity in the new Development Agenda: global assessment of local inequalities (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Organizer: | Carlo Cafiero, FAO/ESS | |||
| papers/speakers: | Mark Nord (USDA/ERS), "Lessons from 15 Years of Monitoring Household Food Security in the United States: Extension to Low-Income Countries" | |
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| Joachim De Weerdt (EDI), "Measuring Hunger through Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys" | |
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| Carlo Cafiero (FAO), "Global monitoring of food insecurity in a policy relevant manner: debunking myths and presenting hopes. Lessons from 40+ years of experience at FAO" | |
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| 17:30 18:00 | Closing ceremony and invitation to ICAS-7 (Velasquez auditorium) | |||
| Chair: | Michael Steiner, USDA | |||
| Day after - 26 October | |
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