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Invitation
On behalf of the National Organising Committee (Uganda) and the International Organising Committee/Scientific Programme Committee, we take this opportunity to invite you to the Fifth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-V) to take place from 13th 15th October 2010 in Kampala, Uganda. This venue was selected during the ICAS-IV conference in Beijing, China.
The ICAS-V conference is open to all producers, suppliers, trainers and users of Agricultural Statistics, such as economists, statisticians, researchers, analysts and decision-makers from government entities, the academia, , development partners and international organisations. It is as well open to the private sector, including the business community. More details and updates regarding the conference can be found at the Conference website www.icas-v.org . A copy of the ICAS-V detailed programme and brochure can also be downloaded from the website. We request for your support and assistance in distributing the brochure and in publicising the information therein as widely as possible.
The Conference will focus on the UN report titled Global Strategy for Improving Agriculture Statistics under the theme Integrating Agricultural Statistics into National Statistical Systems. The need for integration of agricultural statistics stems from the fact that many countries have for instance been using piecemeal approaches rather than integrated frameworks that would be the basis of long term development plans towards sustainable statistical systems ... read more
Download the ICAS-V Brochure
English version ll French version
Spanish version
Download the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics document
About ICAS
The International Conference on Agriculture Statistics (ICAS) is a series of conferences which started in 1998 based on the overarching need for Agricultural data worldwide. The need to have a strategic approach to the development or improving the national statistical systems and build capacity was recognized much earlier in 1980’s.
Various discussions have focused on providing the required information to monitor poverty related development programmes particularly in low income countries. Consensus was built on developing national statistical systems that can meet the monitoring and evaluation requirements of development frameworks such as PRSP’s, MDG’s and other national / regional development plans.
PARIS21 attests to this progress by observing the recommendations of mainstreaming strategic planning of statistical systems and preparing “National Strategies for Development of Statistics (NSDS)” for all low income countries by 2006. Agriculture is a key sector in many economies of the world but its monitoring tools called Agricultural Statistics are in many cases not well developed and therefore a subject of debate at various fora.