About the Project

Background

The Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is a statutory body of FAO, bringing together senior statistics Officials from 24 FAO member countries of the Asia and Pacific region, who are responsible for the development of agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They meet biannually to review recent developments in their agricultural statistical systems and exchange ideas with experts from FAO and other organizations on the state of food and agricultural statistics in the continent. Within the APCAS Framework, the regional project "Strengthening Regional Data Exchange System on Food and Agricultural Statistics in Asia and Pacific Countries (GCP/RAS/184/JPN) was launched.

 

The development objective of the member countries of Asia and the Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is to have a sound statistical system capable of (i) providing data and information for planning and policy making in the food and agriculture sector with the aim of raising living standard and nutritional status of people, especially the rural poor, and (ii) exchanging these data with other countries to support national, regional and global food security programmes and policies.

 

About the project

The regional project “Strengthening Regional Data Exchange System on Food and Agricultural Statistics in Asia and Pacific Countries (GCP/RAS/184/JPN)” was launched in December 2001. It was the follow-up project to "Improvement of Agricultural Statistics in Asia and Pacific Countries (GCP/RAS/171/JPN)". With the technical assistance of FAO and the funding of Japan, sixteen out of the 24 APCAS country members established a unified and integrated Regional Data Exchange System (RDES) under the project. RDES is a web-based system for exchanging and accessing national statistical data in electronic format through the Internet.

The Project has two immediate objectives; 1) Phased implementation of the Master Plan for the Regional Data Exchange System for Food and Agricultural Statistics, according to concepts formulated by the previous regional project with respect to the transfer of data in electronic format among participating countries in the Region and FAO; and 2) Strengthening of national capacity to analyze, use and disseminate food and agricultural statistics in support of national agricultural development policy and planning, including food security and poverty alleviation.

The project has successfully implemented the Regional Data Exchange System, serving as a major depository of agricultural statistics data in Asia and the Pacific and a main portal on the subject providing national agricultural statistics data as well as links to relevant international and national organizations web sites.

 

INSTRUCTION: Select a country on the left-side menu to access country-based facilities for accessing statistics data files.

1. Guideline of the Regional Data Exchange System

2. Guideline of the standardization of the Regional Data Exchange System