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EC-FAO Programme Full Day Event at the Fourth International Conference on Agriculture Statistics (ICAS-4) in Beijing, China

The Fourth International Conference on Agriculture Statistics (ICAS-4) took place in Beijing, China from October 22 to 24, 2007. This year’s theme “Advancing Statistical Integration and Analysis” highlighted new directions in agricultural statistics.

The EC-FAO Programme hosted a full day side event at the conference, where findings from its work on food security statistics in several countries including Palestine, Cambodia, Laos, Moldova, Kenya, among others, were presented to an international audience.

The side event “Food Security Statistics and Information for Targeting Poor and Hungry Populations at Sub-national Levels” took place on October 25, 2007 at the Friendship Hotel, Beijing. Papers and discussions centered on:

- Deriving Food Security Statistics from National Household Surveys: Experiences, Achievements, and Challenges;

- Deriving Food Security Statistics at Sub-national levels and Gender Analysis of Food Deprivation;

- Consumption versus Acquisition Approaches for Deriving Food Security Statistics;

- Using Food Security Statistics for Policy Analysis; and

- How to Enhance Analysis of Food Security Statistics.

The full agenda for the side event is available at:
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/icas/t20070531_
402407978.htm

Contact information-for-action@fao.org for more details.