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Recap and Resources: 50x2030 Seminar: Integrating Surveys and Satellites for Agricultural Monitoring in Smallholder Farming Systems

On 15 April, 50x2030 hosted "Integrating Surveys and Satellites for Agricultural Monitoring in Smallholder Farming Systems," the first in its new seminar series that will highlight learning and tools emerging from activities under the Initiative. More than 350 people participated in a 90-minute exploration of how large-scale household surveys should be conducted to generate the data needed to train models for satellite-based crop type mapping in smallholder farming systems.

This inaugural seminar was based on the new 50x2030 working paper, Understanding the Requirements for Surveys to Support Satellite-Based Crop Type Mapping: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, The paper examines experiences and recommendations for integration of survey and satellite imagery for maize...

Inaugural 50x2030 Seminar to explore survey support to satellite-based crop type mapping

For this inaugural session, experts from the 50x2030 research team and partner Atlas AI will lead in exploring the minimum requirements for surveys to support satellite-based crop type mapping. Discussions will be based on the new 50x2030 working paper, Understanding the Requirements for Surveys to...

50x2030 UN Statistical Commission side event: Recap and resources

The first half of the session explored coordination, specifically how the 50x2030 approach intervenes throughout the data value chain, and how through collaborations and partnerships the program seeks to improve data quality and production. The second half looked at the roll out of the 50x2030...

Uganda, Senegal released major statistical products to inform agricultural policies

In Uganda, the Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) completed the dissemination program of the 2018 Uganda Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS 2018) with the support of FAO, which leads data production activities for 50x2030. In Senegal, similar milestones were reached by the Senegalese Directorate of Analysis...

50x2030 launches data use grant competition for researchers in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Georgia, Senegal

The data use competition aims to facilitate the building of evidence-informed policies for rural development and food security. Research proposals must demonstrate relevance to national policy or investment priorities for the public or private sector by citing documentation. Proposals should provide...

50x2030 to host side event at 52nd session of United Nations Statistical Commission

This official UNSC side event will present early learnings from the first country engagements under 50x2030, which aims at supporting 50 lower and lower-middle-income countries to address gaps in agricultural and rural data through the use of novel integrated agricultural and rural surveys...

Cambodia releases report of first large-scale survey of the agriculture sector since 2013

The CIAS 2019 collected information on crop cultivation, livestock and poultry raising, aquaculture and capture fishing. Major findings will feed into the next round of data collection in the 50x2030 integrated agriculture survey. These include: CIAS 2019 estimated that there were a total of 1,726...

50x2030 opens first call for expressions of interest from countries

Countries can apply either through an online form or via email using a downloadable PDF, both of which are available on the 50x2030 website. Countries will be assessed based on agricultural statistics capacity, potential impact of 50x2030, and financial and technical capacity to sustain and take...

Complete, updated 50x2030 questionnaire package now available

The full package is composed of the CORE-AG tool and additional specialized instruments that may be added according to country needs and capacity. In addition to the completion of the PME questionnaire, this release includes refinements and marginal revisions to the CORE-AG, Farm Income Labor and...

Fort des récents avancements du programme d’enquête agricole, le Sénégal se prépare à des améliorations plus profondes et durables grâce à l’Initiative 50x2030

Ont aussi participé à la réunion M. Babacar Ndir, Directeur généralde l’Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) et Mme Sylvie Dasylva, Chef de Division des statistiques à la DAPSA. Dans sa présentation sur le système statistique national agricole, Mme Dasylva a souligné les...

With recent advancements in agricultural survey program, Senegal prepares for deeper, sustainable improvements through 50x2030

He was joined by Babacar Ndir, Director General of the National Agency of Statistics and Demography (ANSD) and Sylvie Da Sylva, Head of the Statistics Division at DAPSA. In a presentation on the national agricultural statistical system, Da Sylva outlined strengths (e.g. use of modern data collection...

Inaugural 50x2030 Annual Report published

The report also details activities carried out in the 12 counties where the Initiative was active during the period: Armenia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. It also covers major developments in the three areas of support that...

50x2030 on track to meet country engagement target for 2020 as Georgia begins planning

Representatives from Geostat, Georgia’s National Statistics Office, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA) met to exchange with the 50x2030 Program Management Team and the three implementing partner agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International...