FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED …

Statistics Division

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

D. Ballayan, Statistics Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) Workshop on Environment Statistics

Abuja, Nigeria, 19-23 May 2008

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

FAO Land Use Statistics

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) collects and disseminates information related to the subject areas

-among them natural resources, land use, agriculture and forestry.

The organization collects country information through a handful of different reporting processes -compiles it as global data sets, -available in periodically published reports - FAO websites.

FAO is considered as the main authoritative source of information - land use -agriculture and forestry at global and regional level - data published by the organization is widely used for many different purposes

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Presentation will cover

FAO Land Use database -Data sources -Updates -Accessibility -International vs Country data

Land use/Land cover classification -Sources of data -Land registers -Remote sensing(Agriculture and Forestry)

Statistics on Land tenure

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

FAOSTAT data on land use and land use changes

? The global data set on land use maintained by FAO is published through the corporate statistics Website at FAOSTAT ().

?It is updated annually, and contains a chronological time series since 1961

?contain a large number of classes and subclasses of agriculture land, for which data are annually collected through a questionnaire sent to countries

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

FAOSTAT data on land use and land use changes

? FRA 2005 collected information from more than 40 variables and for three points in time:

? 1990, 2000 and 2005

?FRA 2005 data are available for viewing and download at forestry/fra2005.

?A CD-ROM is also available for free upon request

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