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Annex 1

Regional Roundtable

on the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020),

Nairobi, Kenya, 18-22 September 2017

(Venue: Hotel Southern Sun Mayfair Nairobi, Parklands Rd)

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

Monday, 18 September

Registration

Opening Session

Technical session 1:Overview of the New Features of World Programme for Agricultural Census 2020(WCA 2020)

FAO presentation

Technical session 2:Roundtable on Countries Census plans, approaches and methodologies

FAO presentation

Presentation: Key Highlights from the 2016 Canadian Census and Vision for 2021

Roundtable discussion: Countries’ brief information about census plans

Technical session 3: Main steps in developing and implementing the census of agriculture

FAO presentation

Technical session 4: Methodological considerations

  • Census modalities

FAO presentation

Presentation: The Census of Agriculture 2016 in Canada: Key Methodological Considerations

Country presentation: Mozambique

  • Linking Population and Housing Censuses with Agricultural Censuses

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Seychelles

  • Agricultural Integrated Survey (AGRIS): Rationale and Methodology

FAO presentation

Tuesday, 19 September

Technical session 5: CensusTheme 1 – Identification and general characteristics

FAO presentation

Presentation: Identification and General Characteristics – Canada’s Experience

Country presentation: Botswana

Technical session 6:Census Theme 2 - Land

FAO presentation

Presentation: Land in the Canadian Census of Agriculture

Country presentations: South Africa, Botswana

Technical session 7:Census Theme 3 - Irrigation

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Uganda

Technical session 8:Census Theme 4 - Crops

FAO presentation

Country presentations: South Africa,Tanzania

Wednesday, 20 September

Technical session 9: Census Theme 5 - Livestock

FAO presentation

Country presentations: Uganda, Namibia

Technical session 10: Census Themes 6 and 7 - Agricultural practices and services

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Tanzania

Technical session 11: Census Themes 8 and 10 - Demographic & Social Characteristics and Intra-household distribution of managerial decisions and ownership

FAO presentation

Country presentations: The Gambia,Seychelles

Thursday, 21 September

Technical session 12:Census Theme 9 – Work on the holding

FAO presentation

Country presentation: The Gambia

Technical session 13: Census Theme 11 – Household food security

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Malawi

Technical session 14: Census Themes 12 and 14– Aquaculture and Fisheries

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Namibia

Technical session 15: Census Theme 13 and 15 – Forestry and Environment/greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Rwanda

Technical session 16: Community-level data

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Lesotho

Technical session 17: Tabulation, Dissemination and Archiving

FAO presentation

Country presentations: Malawi, Ethiopia (CountrySTAT), Kenya (CountrySTAT)

Friday, 22 September

Technical session 18:Operational issues

  • Legal and institutional framework

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Ghana, Nigeria

  • Census communication and publicity

FAO presentation

Presentation: The Census of Agriculture in Canada- Communications Outreach

Country presentation: Lesotho

  • Use of Technology for field data capture and compilation, and the implication for field data collection management

FAO presentation

Country presentation: Mozambique

Technical session 19: National practices on data collection methods for statistics on structural aspects of agriculture

Country presentations:Liberia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Technical session 20: Way forward

Closing session