Request Description:
FAO QUESTIONNAIRES 2021
On CROPS AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION DATA,
On PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS, and on GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON AGRICULTURE
When completing the questionnaire on Crops and Livestock Production and Prices Received by Farmers, we request your office to check whether the list of products reported is exhaustive. Should this not be the case, the questionnaire offers space at the end of each section to provide more details, to communicate data on products we may have omitted from the list.
· The Crops and Livestock Production questionnaire contains a section on the utilization of agricultural products, which is very important for the compilation of the Food Balance Sheets (FBS). In this context, as you are aware, data on losses have become of utmost importance. The international community is voicing a pressing demand for information in this area, with a view to reduce losses worldwide. The same data is required for monitoring target 12.3 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We would therefore underline the importance of your commitment towards providing any data you can access in this domain, as defined in the notes to the questionnaire.
· Concerning the questionnaire on Prices Received by Farmers, we request you to communicate both the annual and the monthly time series.
· The questionnaire on Government Expenditure on Agriculture also requires information that is in high demand to inform the relative FAOSTAT domain and monitoring indicator 2.a.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (Agriculture Orientation Index of Government Expenditures). We ask you to provide complete and consolidated information you have in this domain across all levels of Government, including expenditure of decentralized Government level. You may note that the questionnaire was slightly revised with the inclusion of additional consistency checks and the Manual for filling in the questionnaire was also revised with more updated information.
Please complete and return the attached questionnaires to FAO by no later than 14 May 2021.
Should it be more convenient, you are welcome to send us the various questionnaires as soon as they are completed, rather than sending them all at the same time.
If you not the responsible person for any of the attached questionnaires, we ask you to inform us immediately and/or forward the questionnaires to the responsible national authority or institution.
Should your country not collect the data that we are requesting, we ask you to inform us, as this will help FAO to plan future efforts in technical assistance.
For any further questions, comments or difficulties in completing any of these questionnaires, please do not hesitate to contact us at FAO-Questionnaires@fao.org.
