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50x2030 Focuses on Women’s Empowerment with the Expansion of WEMNS Metric

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the 50x2030 Initiative is expanding its commitment to better measuring Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on Gender Equality. Recognizing women’s important role in agrifood systems transformation and overall global agricultural development, the 50x2030...

50x2030 Releases FY23 Annual Report, Highlighting Milestones and Progress

The 50x2030 Initiative has released its FY23 Annual Report, highlighting key milestones and country-specific progress made over the past fiscal year. In FY23, the 50x2030 Initiative embarked on an expansion strategy and made great strides in achieving its targets. It initiated and strengthened...

With Completion of Togo Program Implementation Plan, 50x2030 Expands Regional Partnership in West Africa

In May 2023, the 50x2030 Initiative finalized a Program Implementation Plan (PIP) in partnership with the Government of Togo. With completion of the PIP for Togo, efforts will now begin to launch agricultural survey data collection, technical assistance, and trainings to promote data use within key...

Efforts Launch in Ghana as Program Implementation Plan is Signed

In early June, Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture and its Statistical Service (GSS) signed a Program Implementation Plan (PIP) for the 50x2030 Initiative. With completion of the PIP, efforts will now launch in country to support the improvement and development of agricultural statistics which...

Call for Proposals: 2023 Data Use Research Competition

The application is now open for the 2023 Data Use Research Competition. The 50x2030 Initiative invites research teams from Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Senegal, and Uganda to submit research proposals as part of efforts to bridge the Agricultural Data Gap. Areas of focus sought for...

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Agricultural Statistics Leaders Connect at ICAS 2023

Leaders of the 50x2030 Initiative recently attended the ninth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) in Washington D.C. ICAS 2023 was organized by the World Bank and USDA in coordination with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). Key topics of focus for the...

50x2030 Supports Cambodia in Launching Data Programming to Achieve Key Developmental Priorities

In 2020, the Royal Government of Cambodia, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) and the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), sought to launch a new data program to accelerate sustainable development and improve livelihoods for the Cambodian people. MAFF and NIS...

50x2030 Partners with Ministries of Agriculture to Onboard Several West African Countries to Initiative

From 27 February to 3 March, 2023, the 50x2030 Program Management Team (PMT) traveled to West Africa to meet with several Ministries of Agriculture to jointly launch country participation in the Initiative. The countries visited during the mission include Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, and Benin. Each...

50x2030 Supports Senegal on Fifth Annual Survey Cycle Microdata Release

The Senegalese Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty (MAERSA) recently released microdata from the latest Annual Agricultural Survey (EAA) 2021-2022 with the support of the 50x2030 Initiative. The EAA is the national survey carried out during the main agricultural season in...

Major Milestone: 50x2030 Supports Georgia’s Efforts to Advance Sustainable Agriculture and Produce Key SDG Indicator

This week, the National Statistics Office of Georgia has published the statistical report on sustainable agriculture in the country arising from the Production Methods and Environment (PME) survey conducted in 2021 in partnership with the 50x2030 Initiative. With the completion of the PME Survey...

50x2030 and Sierra Leone Launch Five-Year Partnership to Advance National and Regional Development Initiatives

Sierra Leone is currently working with the World Bank on an ongoing IDA Project focused on Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa, or HISWA. A key component of the project is to support the improvement and development of agricultural statistics in country, achieved through the...

Data from the latest agricultural survey allow Senegal to better calculate SDGs 2.3.1, 2.3.2 and 5.a.1

On December 21st, the Directorate of Analysis, Forecasting and Agricultural Statistics (DAPSA) held a national workshop for presenting the main results from the Annual Agricultural Survey (EAA) 2021-2022. This edition of the EAA comes with significant advances, starting with the compilation for the...

Key findings from the Uganda Annual Agricultural Survey 2020 provide facts for evidence-based decision making

The Government of Uganda, with the support of 50x2030 Initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap, presented the results of the Annual Agricultural Survey (AAS) 2020 on November 18, 2022. The dissemination workshop was led by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) with technical assistance from...