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- integration of agriculture into the national statistical system in order to
meet the users’ demand for consistent and compatible data by territories
and over time;
- improvement of the sustainability of the agricultural statistical system
through governance and statistical capacity building;
- identifying a minimum set of core data which will be collected by the
countries to meet both current and emerging information requirements.

2. Methodology
The WB project enabled productive implementation of different kinds of
activities, the key ones among them being wide expert discussions and
development of specific methodological papers. Several CIS regional expert
meetings were conducted during the period 2012-2018 in different CIS
countries as well as in FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
(Budapest). “Plan for the implementation of the Global Strategy in the CIS
region” was elaborated at the expert meeting in 2012 and then approved by
the highest regional statistical body – Council of Heads of CIS NSOs – in 2012.
The discussions held during the following expert meetings were focused on
most important issues related to the development of agricultural and rural
statistics in the CIS region.
Following the CIS experts’ priorities, the CIS-Stat developed several
methodology papers discussing the key issues, adapting international
methodology standards to specific features of CIS countries, analyzing the
national CIS practices, and promoting implementation of most efficient
solutions into the regional agricultural and rural statistics (see [3]…[10]).
Proposals on the system and methodology of agro-environmental indicators
for the CIS region are being developed currently in accordance with the
international standards.
A special analytical overview of agricultural statistics based on
generalized practice of international standards used all over the world was
carried out by the CIS-Stat as a starting point in providing recommendations
for CIS NSOs in the field of agricultural statistics (see [3]). The paper reviews
the general issues of the organization of agricultural statistics in the EU
countries (subjects, classifications, standards) in such areas as structural
changes, land use, crop production, livestock, agri-environmental indicators,
including organic agriculture, as well as FAOs contributions to the
improvement of agricultural statistics.
An important task in developing agricultural statistics in the CIS region is
ensuring methodological comparability of data produced by the NSOs. In this
context the CIS-Stat carried out a special analytical work allowing reconciling
different national data – conversion keys for the main indicators of
agricultural and rural statistics (see [4]).

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