ISI Satellite Meeting on Agricultural Statistics August 2009, Maputo, Mozambique Xiaoning Gong Statistician FAO Statistics Division Conceptual Framework for Agricultural Statistics

Schematic Presentation of Conceptual Framework for Agricultural Statistics

Economic Accounts (SNA)

Social Issues: Poverty & Food Security

Environmental Accounts

Economic-Environmental Accounts for Agricultural Statistics (Dashed Area)

Architecture of Global Strategy

Roles of Conceptual Framework Redefine/translate policy issues into statistical language in a standard and coherent manner Quantify/meet data needs and requirements in a systematical way

Emerging Data Needs identified in the IEE Agro-Environmental Energy/ Bio-fuels Climate Change Household Consumption & Food Security Land/soil (including cartography) Prices Rural (sub-national) Data Trade Water

Matching Emerging Data Needs in IEE to Conceptual Framework Economic Accounts (To Enhance FBS & SUA) Prices Trade Rural (sub-national) Data Household Consumption & Food Security Environmental and Ecosystem Services Agro-Environmental Climate Change Natural Resources Energy/ Bio-fuels Water Land/soil (cartography & cadastre)

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Roles of Conceptual Framework Ensure consistency, completeness and comparability among all indicators Ensure indicators so selected to be meaningful and significant

Roles of Conceptual Framework Apply international classification (CPC) to select major commodities Use accounting aggregates and balancing items to construct economic, social, and environmental indicators Compile derived indicators by combining aggregates & balancing items Compile composite or ratio indicators by combining data from different accounts and tables

Architecture of Global Strategy

Roles of Conceptual Framework Incorporate currently used structure and framework (SUAs & FBS) Depict relationship of agricultural statistics with other sectoral statistics Demonstrate direction on how to integrate agricultural statistics into national statistical system Apply uniform units, concepts, definitions and classifications across different accounts

Current FBS and SUA (in Volume)

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Roles of Conceptual Framework For data from different administrative records, surveys and censuses, the conceptual framework Being a comprehensive and coordinating data framework for compilation To identify and reduce overlapping and data gaps To cross-check and reconcile inconsistency to make all the data comparable

Architecture of Global Strategy

Developing Conceptual Framework Satellite Meeting of the ISI, Maputo (MOZAMBIQUE), August 2009 Seminar at the 57 th Session of the ISI, Durban (South Africa), 17 August, on “Economic- Environmental Accounts for Agriculture: Design and Practice” Establishing Task Team under the Friends of Chair (FoC) on the Conceptual Framework Collaboration with UNCEEA to develop the conceptual framework (System of Economic- Environmental Accounts for Agriculture)

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