Programme

The scientific programme includes Plenary Sessions, Parallel Sessions with oral presentations in English and a Poster Session.
English is the official language of the Conference.

FULL PROGRAMME | AGENDA  | SYNOPTIC PROGRAMME

08:00 – 09:45 | REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE

PLENARY SESSION
GREEN ROOM | A1-22

09:30-10:10 | OPENING CERIMONY
José Graziano Da Silva | Director-General | FAO | Rome | Italy
Andrea Oliveri | Italian Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policy | Rome | Italy
Pierfrancesco Sacco | Permanent Representative of the Republic of Italy to UN Agencies in Rome | Italy
Giorgio Alleva | President | Istat | Rome | Italy
Pietro Gennari | Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Division | FAO | Rome | Italy

10:15-10:45 | PL- 1 | MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS TO RESPOND TO NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL DEMANDS
Giorgio Alleva | President | Istat | Rome | Italy

16:00-17:30 |  PL-2 | INTEGRATION OF DATA SOURCES IN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Session Organizer: P. Lavallée | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada

THEMATIC SET A: POVERTY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL DIMENSION OF AGRICULTURE
GREEN ROOM | A1-22
11:00-12:30 | A.03  | MEASURING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF AGRICULTURE
Session Organizer: B. Davis | FAO | Rome | Italy

14:00-15:30 |  A.04 | MEASURING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF AGRICULTURE
Session Organizer: B. Davis | FAO | Rome | Italy

THEMATIC SET B: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
PHILIPPINE ROOM | C2-77
11:00-12:30 |  B. 07 | MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN AGRICULTURE, FISHERY AND FORESTRY
Session Organizer: C. Carletto | The World Bank | Rome | Italy

  • Performance of goats and sheep under communal grazing in Botswana using various growth measures
    L. Baleseng | Ministry of Agriculture | Gaborone | Botswana
    O. E. Kgosikoma | Ministry of Agriculture | Gaborone | Botswana
    M. Coleman | University of New England | Armidale | Australia
    D. Baker | UNE Business School | University of New England | Armidale | Australia
    O. Temoso | UNE Business School | University of New England | Armidale | Australia
    P. Morley | University of New England | Armidale | Australia
    A. Makgekgenene | Ministry of Agriculture | Gaborone | Botswana
    S. Bahta | International Livestock Research Institute | Nairobi | Kenya
  • An alternative methodology for estimation of cotton yield using double sampling approach
    U. C. Sud | ICAR – Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) | New Delhi | India
    T. Ahmad | ICAR – Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) | New Delhi | India
    A. Rai | ICAR – Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) | New Delhi | India
    P. Mishra Sahoo | ICAR – Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) | New Delhi | India
  • Effect of data aggregation on inefficiency estimates
    T. Kim | Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology at Seoul National University | Pyeongchang | Republic of Korea
    B. W. Brorsen | Oklahoma State University | Oklahoma | USA
  • The root of the measure: estimating cassava production in Malawi and Zanzibar
    H. Moylan | The World Bank | Rome | Italy
    T. Kilic | The World Bank | Rome | Italy
    J. Ilukor | The World Bank | Kampala | Uganda
    I. Pangapanga Phiri | Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources | Lilongwe | Malawi

14:00-15:30 | B. 08 | DETERMINANTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
Session Organizer: Alberto Zezza | The World Bank | Rome | Italy

  • Crop water productivity for sunflower under different irrigation regimes and plant spacing in Gezira scheme, Sudan
    E. R. A. Elsheikh | Agricultural Research Corporation | Khartoum | Sudan
    B. Schultz | UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education | Delft | Netherlands
    H. Adam | University of Gezira | WadMedani | Sudan
  • Impact evaluation differentials of adoption of NERICA on area cultivated, yield and income of rice producers, and its determinants in Nigeria
    A. E. Obayelu | Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta | Abeokuta | Nigeria
    N. P. M Dontsop | IFPRI | Democratic Republic of Congo
    J. O. Adeoti | NISER – Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research | Ibadan | Nigeria
  • Youth (under)employment, labour productivity and migration into and out of agriculture in Ethiopia
    T. G. Sakketa | University of Bonn | Bonn | Germany
  • Spatial nonstationarity in the stochastic frontier model: an application to the Italian wine industry
    F. Vidoli | University of Roma Tre | Rome | Italy
    C. Cardillo | CREA | Rome | Italy
    E. Fusco | Sapienza University of Rome | Rome | Italy
    J. Canello | University of Queensland | Brisbane | Australia

THEMATIC SET C:  MARKETS, PRICES AND VALUE CHAINS FOR THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR
IRAN ROOM | B1-16
11:00-12:30 |  C. 16  |  MEASURING FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY AND PRICE TRANSMISSION
Session Organizer:  M. Torero  |  IFPRI  |  Washington D.C.  |  USA

14:00-15:30  |  C. 20 | COMPETITIVENESS INDICATORS OF AGRICULTURE AND OF THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR
Session Organizer:  C. Russo & F. G. Wijnands

THEMATIC SET D: NATURAL RESOURCE USE IN AGRICULTURE (SOIL, WATER, FISHERY, FORESTRY, BIODIVERSITY)
ETHIOPIA ROOM | C2-85
11:00-12:30 |  D. 25 | MEASURING THE VALUE OF ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES, LAND DEGRADATION AND BIODIVERSITY LOSSES
Session Organizer: S. Lucci | Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) | Rome | Italy

  • Introducing ecosystem services evaluation indicators in monitoring of irrigated agriculture in Uzbekistan
    N. Umidjan | Research Institute on Agricultural Economics | Tashkent | Uzbekistan
    I. Rustamova | Tashkent State Agrarian University | Tashkent | Uzbekistan
    N. Nishanov | ICARDA-Uzbekistan | Tashkent | Uzbekistan
  • The MIMOSE approach to support large-scale statistics about forest ecosystem services
    M. Vizzarri | Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy Italy
    F. Bottalico | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    L. Antonello | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    A. Barbati | Dipartimento per l’Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali | University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
    G. Chirici | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    P. Corona | Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria | Forestry Research Centre (CREA SEL) | Arezzo | Italy
    S. Cullotta | Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, University of Palermo | Palermo | Italy V. Garfì | Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy V. Giannico | Dipartimento di Scienze Agro-Ambientali e Territoriali | University of Bari | Bari | Italy R. Lafortezza | Dipartimento di Scienze Agro-Ambientali e Territoriali | University of Bari | Bari | Italy D. S. La Mela Veca | Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali | University of Palermo | Palermo | Italy F. Lombardi | Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy F. Maetzke | Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali | University of Palermo | Palermo | Italy M. Marchetti | Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
    S. Nocentini | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    L. Pesola | Dipartimento di Scienze Agro-Ambientali e Territoriali | University of Bari | Bari | Italy F. Riccioli | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    D. Travaglini | Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Alimentari e Forestali | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    L. Sallustio | Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
  • Protection and enhancement of the coast of Mostaganem (Algeria): preliminary restoration study
    F. Kies | Università degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca | Milano | Italy
    I. O. Elegbede | University of Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany | Brandenburg | Germany
    C. Corselli | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca | Milano | Italy
  • Measuring landscape diversity and fragmentation in EU agricultural areas from LUCAS Data
    A. Palmieri | Eurostat | Luxembourg | EU
    M. Masselli | Consultant – Senior statistician | Rome | Italy
    M. Scarnò | CINECA | Rome | Italy
  • Approaches for analysing trade-offs between productivity, nutrition and environmental outcomes at multiple scales
    E. Gotor | Bioversity International | Rome | Italy
    L. T. Rojas | University of Hohenheim | Stuttgart | Germania
    U. Kleinwechter | International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) | Laxenburg | Austria A. Regmi | OCP Research LLC | Washington D. C. | USA

14:00-15:30  |  D. 24 | STATISTICS ON WATER RESOURCES AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY
Session Organizer: B. Rater | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

CROSS-THEMATIC SET F: DATA SOURCES/DATA COLLECTION/USE OF IT TOOLS/DATA QUALITY
AUSTRIA ROOM | C2-85
11:00-12:30 |  F. 32 | USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Session Organizer: N. Keita | FAO | Rome | Italy

14:00-15:30 | F. 33 | USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Session Organizer: N. Keita | FAO | Rome | Italy

CROSS-THEMATIC SET G:DATA ANALYSIS / INTEGRATION/ MODELING
GERMAN ROOM | C2-69
11:00-12:30 |  G.44 | SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS FOR AGRICULTURE CROP PRODUCTION ESTIMATION
Session Organizer: R. Gismondi | Istat | Rome | Italy

14:00-15:30 |  G.43 | MODELLING FOOD, NUTRITION AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETS: UNDERSTANDING DATA NEEDS AND DISCOVERING NEW OPTIONS TO MEET THEM
Session Organizer: B. Schmidhuber | FAO | Rome | Italy

  • The study of prediction of hog price in China
    Y. Cui | Department of Rural Survey – National Bureau of Statistics of China | Beijing | China
  • Challenges for Indian agriculture and non – gaussian time series models for agricultural crop prices
    K. K. Jose | Central University of Rajasthan | Ajmer | India
  • Computation of agriculture: analytics for agriculture
    C. Pramanik | e-Rural Services | Hyderabad | India
    A. Sengupta | BuildFusion, Inc| Kolkata | India
    A. Haque | Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute | New Delhi | India
    S. Das | Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd | Kolkata | India
    N. Sahi| BuildFusion, Inc| Kolkata | India
  • Canada – crop yield modelling using remote sensing, agroclimatic data and statistical survey data
    G. Reichert | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    F. Bédard |Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    C. Mohl |Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    W. Benjamin | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    V. Dongmo Jiongo | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    A. Chipanshi | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    Y. Zhang | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Ottawa | Canada
  • Modelling macronutrients trajectories: dynamics patterns and much more
    M.Vassallo| CREA | Rome | Italy
    M. Serafini | CREA | Rome | Italy

POSTER SESSION
FLAG ROOM
17: 45 – 19: 15 | POSTER SESSION
Session Organizer: M. Steiner | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

PLENARY SESSION
GREEN ROOM | A1-22

14:00-15:30 | PL-3 | MEASURING THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR (streaming)
Session Organizer: M. Bohman | USDA Economic Research Service | Washington, DC | USA
J. MacDonald | USDA Economic Research Service | Washington, DC | USA

THEMATIC SET A: POVERTY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL DIMENSION OF AGRICULTURE
GREEN ROOM | A1-22
09:00-10:30 | A. 06 | MEASURING THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CONFLICTS AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY ON AGRICULTURE
Session Organizer: T. Brück | IGZ | Großbeeren | Germany

  • Agriculture census in Georgia and statistics
    K. Nadiradze | Association for Farmers Rights Defense, AFRD | Tbilisi | Georgia
    N. Phirosmanashvili | Association for Farmers Rights Defense, AFRD | Tbilisi | Georgia
    M. Goginashvili | Association for Farmers Rights Defense, AFRD | Tbilisi | Georgia
  • Gender perspective to effects of violent communal conflicts on selected rural communities in Edo and Ondo states, Nigeria
    M. J. Koyenikan | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
    G. N. Vincent-Osaghae | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
    S. I. Ohiomoba | Federal Ministry of Agriculture | Abuja | Nigeria
    G. O. Alufohai | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
    V. O. Okotie | Federal Ministry of Agriculture | Abuja | Nigeria
  • Assessment of conflicts activities on livelihood of fishing and fish farming households in Nigeria
    B. Fregene | University of Ibadan | Ibadan | Nigeria
    J. Idogun | University of Ibadan | Ibadan | Nigeria
    M. Bello | University of Maiduguri | Maiduguri | Nigeria
  • The impact of civil conflicts on agricultural production
    O. Jeylani | Consultant | Mogadishu | Somalia
  • Measuring violent conflict in micro-level surveys: current practices and methodological challenges
    T. Brück | IGZ | Berlin | Germany
    P. Justino | IGZ | Berlin | Germany
    P. Verwimp | IGZ | Berlin | Germany
    A. Avdeenko | IGZ | Berlin | Germany
    A. Tedesco | IGZ | Berlin | Germany

11:00-12:30 | A. 05 | MEASURING AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT, LABOR CONDITIONS, CHILD/FORCED LABOR, GREEN JOBS AND HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Session Organizer: M. Castillo | ILO | Geneva | Swizterland

16:00 – 17:30 | A. 01 | INDICATORS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Session Organizer: F. Sotte | Università Politecnica delle Marche | Ancona | Italy

17:45 -19:15 | A. 02 | INDICATORS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Session Organizer: F. Sotte | Università Politecnica delle Marche | Ancona | Italy

  • Information sources preference and constraints of community driven development (CDD) projects in southern extension service zone of Edo State, Nigeria
    D. Okoedo-Okojie | Faculty of Agriculture | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
    I. Eze | Faculty of Agriculture | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
    L.T. Osazuwa | Faculty of Agriculture | University of Benin | Benin City | Nigeria
  • An agricultural statistical classification as a decision support tool for the definition of territorial local policies
    A. Djouak | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
    M. Stankowiak | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
    E. Comont | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
    M. Descamps | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
    F. Delbende | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
    J. Christiaen | HEI ISA ISEN GROUP | Lille | France
  • Living in the countryside of Tuscany: are they really better off?
    S. Turchetti | IRPET | Florence | Italy

THEMATIC SET B: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
PHILIPPINE ROOM | C2-77
09:00-10:30 | B. 10 | FOOD SECURITY MEASUREMENT: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Session Organizer: C. Cafiero | FAO | Rome | Italy

11:00-12:30 | B. 11 | FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY STATISTICS: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Session Organizer: C. Cafiero | FAO | Rome | Italy

14:00-15:30 | B. 12 | FOOD BALANCE SHEETS DATA: COMPILATION AND ANALYSES
Session Organizer: C. Cafiero | FAO | Rome | Italy

  • The food security statistics of Iran
    R. Hosseinpour | Information Technology and Communication Center | Ministry of Jahad Agriculture | Tehran | Islamic Republic of Iran
    K. Ahmadi Someeh | Information Technology and Communication Center | Ministry of Jahad Agriculture | Tehran | Islamic Republic of Iran
    H. Reza Ebadzade | Information Technology and Communication Center | Ministry of Jahad Agriculture | Tehran | Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Statistical trends in agriculture in light of the future sustainable food security in Slovenia
    S. Gale | Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia | Ljubljana | Slovenia
  • Estimation of real per capita consumption of meat In Italy
    V. Russo | University of Bologna | Bologna | Italy
    L. Nanni Costa | University of Bologna | Bologna | Italy
    C. Sermoneta | Istat | Rome | Italy

17:45-19:15 |B. 15 | Measuring food losses and food waste
Session Organizer: C. Fabi | FAO | Rome | Italy
T-V. Nguyen | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Seattle, WA | USA

THEMATIC SET C: MARKETS, PRICES AND VALUE CHAINS FOR THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR
IRAN ROOM | B1-16
9:00 – 10:30 | C.19 | ASPECTS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING
Session Organizer: C. Obst | IDEEA | Melbourne | Australia

THEMATIC SET E: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE
IRAN ROOM | B1-16
11:00-12:30 | E. 27 | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS AND AGRO-ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS
Session Organizer: F. Tubiello | FAO | Rome | Italy

16:00-17:30 |E. 28 | MEASURING THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ON AGRICULTURE
Session Organizer: G. Dono | Università degli Studi della Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
A. Ferruzza | Istat | Rome | Italy

  • Climate uncertainty and dynamic adjustment in agriculture: the case of Cameroon
    M. Bindoumou | Catholic University of Central Africa | Yaoundé | Cameroon
    J.R. Essombé Edimo | University of Yaoundé II | Yaoundé | Cameroon
  • Integrated water management under climate change impact
    E. Fouad | INRA | Agadir | Morocco
  • Factors influencing climate change awareness: the case of small-scale maize farmers in mpumalanga province of south Africa
    O.S. Oduniyi | University of South Africa | Johannesburg | South Africa
  • Winners and losers from climate change in agriculture: food security issues in the Mediterranean Basin
    R. Cortignani | DAFNE – University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
    D. Dell’Unto | DAFNE – University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
    P. Deligios | Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione and Dipartimento di Agraria – University of Sassari | Sassari | Italy
    L. Doro | Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione and Dipartimento di Agraria – University of Sassari | Sassari | Italy
    N. Lacetera | DAFNE – University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
    L. Mula | Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione and Dipartimento di Agraria – University of Sassari |Sassari | Italy
    M. Pasqui | Istituto di Biometeorologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | Roma | Italy
    S. Quaresima | Istituto di Biometeorologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | Roma | Italy
    A. Vitali | DAFNE – University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
    P.P. Roggero | Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione and Dipartimento di Agraria – University of Sassari | Sassari | Italy
    G. Dono | DAFNE – University of Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy
  • Addressing Italian official statistics to the measurement of climate change impacts and adaptation options on agriculture
    G. Tagliacozzo | Istat | Rome | Italy
    S. Ramberti | Istat | Rome | Italy
    S. Tersigni | Istat | Rome | Italy
    D. Vignani | Istat | Rome | Italy

17:45-19:15 | E. 26 | MEASURING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURE AND BIO FUEL PRODUCTION
Session Organizer: Annalisa Zezza | Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA) | Rome | Italy

CROSS-THEMATIC SET F: DATA SOURCES/DATA COLLECTION/USE OF IT TOOLS/DATA QUALITY
ETHIOPIA ROOM | C2-85
9:00-10:30 | F. 30 | USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND DRONES IN OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Session Organizer: M. Ballin | Istat | Rome | Italy
M. Miller | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

  • Use of remote sensing and satellite imagery in estimating crop production: malawi’s experience
    E. Mwanaleza | Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development | Lilongwe | Malawi
  • Area estimation of cereals with an area frame survey and earth observation in siliana (Tunisia)
    N. Sghaier | Centre National de la Cartographie et Télédétection – CNCT | Tunis | Tunisia
  • The use of satellite pictures and data provided by drones for the purposes of identification of crops and assessment of plant production
    T. Milewski | Central Statistical Office of Poland | Warsaw | Poland
  • Nationwide demonstration cases of sentinel-2 satellite exploitation towards early crop area indicator
    P. Defourny | Earth and Life Institute | Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve | Belgium
    N. Bellemans | Earth and Life Institute | Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve | Belgium
    C. Cara | CS Romania | Craiova | Romania
    G. Dedieu | Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère CESBIO-UMR | Toulouse | France
    E. Guzzonato | CS, Systèmes d’information | Le Plessis Robinson | France
    O. Hagolle | Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère CESBIO-UMR | Toulouse | France
    J. Inglada | Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère CESBIO-UMR | Toulouse | France
    N. Kussul | Space Research Institute, NAS | Kyiv | Ukraine
    D. Morin | Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère CESBIO-UMR | Toulouse | France
    L. Nicola | CS Romania | Craiova | Romania
    T. Rabaute | CS, Systèmes d’information | Le Plessis Robinson | France
    M. Savignaud | CS, Systèmes d’information | Le Plessis Robinson | France
    A. Shelestov | Space Research Institute, NAS | Kyiv | Ukraine
    C. Udroiu | CS Romania | Craiova | Romania
    B. Koetz | European Space Agency-ESRIN | Frascati | Italy
  • Grassland biomass assessment with remote sensing tools and open source software
    A. Cimbelli | Istat | Rome | Italy
    S. Tersigni | Istat | Rome | Italy

AUSTRIA ROOM | C2-50

9:00-10:30 | F. 37 | METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND PROPOSALS FOR THE NEXT AGRICULTURE CENSUS ROUND
Session Organizer: J. Castano | FAO | Rome | Italy
M. Greco | Istat | Rome | Italy

ETHIOPIA ROOM | C2-85

11:00-12:30 | F. 29 | BIG DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Session Organizer: P. Hackl | Vienna University of Economics and Business | Vienna | Austria

  • Application of data warehouse and big data technology in agriculture in India
    N.P. Singh | Management Development Institute | Gurgaon | India
  • Exploring a Big data approach to list building
    L. Young | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA
    B. Rater | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA
    M. Hyman | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA
  • Big data for the national agricultural census, Colombia 2014
    S.Y. Rodriguez Figueroa | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    S. Moreno | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    Y. Acosta | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    C. Maldonado | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    W. Martinez | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    A. Montero | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
    A. Murillo | DANE | Bogotá | Colombia
  • Istat farm register: data collection by using web scraping for agritourism farms
    G. Barcaroli | Istat | Rome | Italy
    P. Giordano | Istat | Rome | Italy
    M. Greco | Istat | Rome | Italy
    V. Moretti | Istat | Rome | Italy
    P. Righi | Istat | Rome | Italy
    M. Scarnò | CINECA | Rome | Italy

16:00-17:30 | F. 39 | NEW SOFTWARE, APPS AND TOOLS FOR DATA COLLECTION IN AGRICULTURE STATISTICS
Session Organizer: Parsons

17:45-19:15 | F. 34 | INTEGRATING AGRICULTURAL AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
Session Organizer: C. Carletto | The World Bank | Rome | Italy
S. Hofman | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

CROSS-THEMATIC SET G: DATA ANALYSIS/INTEGRATION/MODELING
AUSTRIA ROOM | C2-50
11:00-12:30 | G.42 | ESTIMATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF LAND COVER AND LAND USE AREAS
Session Organizer: S. Pérez Cadena | INEGI | Aguascalientes | Mexico

  • Use of remote sensing in estimation of agricultural land
    J. V.Aguilar | Servicio de InformaciónAgroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP-SAGARPA) | Ciudad de México | México
    P. Ornelas | Servicio de InformaciónAgroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP-SAGARPA) | Ciudad de México | México
    J.L. López | Servicio de InformaciónAgroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP-SAGARPA) | Ciudad de México | México
    J.E. Reyna | Servicio de InformaciónAgroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP-SAGARPA) | Ciudad de México | México
    H. Olva | Servicio de InformaciónAgroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP-SAGARPA) | Ciudad de México | México

  • J. Gallego | JRC – EuropeanCommission | Ispra | Italy
    C. Sannier | SIRS | Villeneuve d’Ascq | France
    A. Pennec | SIRS | Villeneuve d’Ascq | France

  • The Italian land use inventory for assessing land use changes in Italy during last decades
    M. Marchetti | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
    P. Corona | Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA SEL) | Arezzo | Italy
    L. Fattorini | University of Siena | Siena | Italy
    M.C. Pagliarella | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
    M. Munafò | Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) | Rome | Italy
    G. Chirici | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    F. Lombardi | University of Reggio Calabria | Reggio Calabria | Italy
    M. Ottaviano | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
    M. Vizzarri | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
    L. Sallustio | Università degli Studi del Molise | Pesche | Italy
  • Land cover change and rural livelihoods: a spatial analysis on Northern Ghana
    C. Azzarri | IFPRI | Washington, DC | USA
    B. Haile | IFPRI | Washington, DC | USA
    S. Signorelli | IFPRI | Washington, DC | USA
    Z. Guo | IFPRI | Washington, DC | USA
  • Performance of area estimation by integration of line transect sampling and multi-source remote sensing data
    B. Wu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing | China
    M. Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing | China
    M. Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing | China
    Y. Zheng | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing | China

16:00 – 17:30 | G.40/41| SPATIAL AND ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN AGRICULTURE STATISTICS
Session Organizer: P. Sckokai | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Milano | Italy

  • Spatial perspective and growth in indian agriculture: 1967-2010
    T. Chatterjee | Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | Mumbai | India
  • Inference and diagnostic in spatial models: an application to wheat productivity F. De Bastiani | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco | Recife | Brazil
  • Statistical matching of FER and agricultural census data: a way forward to relate economic and structural variables
    G. Stefani | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    G. V. Lombardi | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    L. Cei | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    B. Rocchi | University of Florence | Firenze | Italy
    S. Giampaolo | Istat | Rome | Italy
  • Inferring the big picture from data: combining different data sources to understand the operation of the dairy sector in Malawi  C.Revoredo-Giha | Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) | Edinburgh | United Kingdom
    L. Toma | Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) | Edinburgh | United Kingdom
  • A dynamic spatial modeling of agricultural price transmission: evidence from niger millet market
    A. Goundan | IFPRI | Dakar | Senegal
    M. Tankari | IFPRI | Dakar | Senegal

17:45-19:15 |G.45 | NEW SOFTWARE, APPS AND TOOLS FOR DATA ANALYSIS, INTEGRATION AND MODELLING IN AGRICULTURE STATISTICS
Session Organizer: J. Parsons | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

  • The Canadian longitudinal census of agricultural file – a tool to better understand structural change on Canadian farms
    K. Nagelschmitz | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    J.F. Frenette | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    M. Brown | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
    S. Prasil | Statistics Canada | Ottawa | Canada
  • Extending the laco-wiki tool for land cover validation to crop area estimation
    J.C. LasoBayas | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    S. Fritz | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    L. See | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    C. Perger | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    C. Dresel | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    J. Gallego | European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) | Ispra | Italy
    H. Kerdiles | European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC) | Ispra | Italy
    J. Weichselbaum | GeoVille Information Systems GmbH | Innsbruck | Austria
    I. McCallum | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    I. Moorthy | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    F. Kraxner | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
    M. Obersteiner | IIASA |Laxenburg| Austria
  • Re-engineering the “estimate of crop, flower and pot plant production and area” survey: a fully integrated and automated system for data collection, analysis and dissemination
    R. Gismondi | Istat | Rome | Italy
    R. M. Aracri | Istat | Rome | Italy
    G. D’Amato | Istat | Rome | Italy
    P. Giorgetti | Istat | Rome | Italy
    L. De Gaetano | Istat | Rome | Italy
    M. Silipo | Istat | Rome | Italy
    G. Vaste | Istat | Rome | Italy
  • Selective editing procedure for the community survey on the structure of agricultural holdings
    R. Varriale | Istat | Rome | Italy
    O. Luzi | Istat | Rome | Italy
    G. Seri | Istat | Rome | Italy
  • Assessing the impact of infectious disease outbreaks on agriculture and food security: the case of the ebola virus disease outbreak in west
    J. Senahoun | FAO | Rome | Italy
    K. Gunjal | FAO | Rome | Italy

CROSS-THEMATIC SET H: DATA DISSEMINATION & COMMUNICATION/USE OF STATISTICS FOR POLICY MAKING & RESEARCH GERMAN ROOM | H46 – 48
11:00-12:30 | H.46 | PLATFORMS FOR DATA DISSEMINATION AND DATA ANALYSIS
Session Organizer: O. Dupriez | The World Bank |Washington, DC | USA

16:00-17:30 | H.48 | THE NEW PROFESSIONAL PROFILE OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICIANS
Session Organizer: P. Everaers | Eurostat | Luxembourg | Luxembourg

17:45-19:15 | H.47 | MEASURING THE USE OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR DECISION-MAKING
Session Organizer: Pietro Gennari | Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Division | FAO | Rome | Italy

PLENARY SESSION
GREEN ROOM | A1-22

14:00 – 15:30 |  PL-4 : FINANCING THE MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS: STATISTICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION (streaming)
Session Organizer: C. Duhamel | FAO | Rome | Italy
F. Lawson | African Development Bank | Abidjan | Ivory Coast

15: 30-16: 00 | CLOSING CEREMONY

THEMATIC SET B: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
ETHIOPIA ROOM | C2-85
09: 00-10: 30 | B. 09 | FINDING THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK: ESTIMATING COMMODITIES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE IN OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (ILLICIT COMMODITIES AND NOMADIC LIVESTOCK)
Session Organizer: C. Bussink | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | Statistics and Surveys Section, Trends Monitoring and Analysis Programme | Vienna | Austria

  • Comparing dot grid sampling versus full area mapping for illicit crop monitoring in Bolivia
    T. Bauer | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences | Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information | Vienna | Austria
    W. Schneider | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences | Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information | Vienna | Austria
    C. Bussink | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | Statistics and Surveys Section, Trends Monitoring and Analysis Programme | Vienna | Austria
    H. Catari | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Field office Bolivia | La Paz | Bolivia
  • Using law enforcement data to estimate illicit activity in an internationally traded illegal commodity
    F. M. Underwood | Independent Consultant – University of Reading | Taunton/Reading | United Kingdom
  • Opium yield estimates in Afghanistan using remote sensing
    T. W. Waine | Cranfield University | Cranfield | United Kingdom
    D. M. Simms | Cranfield University | Cranfield | United Kingdom
  • Survey methods for the enumeration of nomadic and semi-nomadic (transhumant) livestock
    N. Georgieva | FAO | Rome | Italy
    N. Keita | FAO | Rome | Italy
    D. Bako | FAO | Rome | Italy

IRAN ROOM | B1-16
09: 00-10: 30 | B. 13 | CAPTURING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Session Organizer: R. I. Smith | TIES | Edinburgh | United Kingdom

ETHIOPIA ROOM | C2-85
11:00 – 12:30 | B. 14 | COMMUNICATING THE COMPLEXITY OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Session Organizer: M. Dominguez Torreiro | FAO | Rome | Italy

THEMATIC SET C: MARKETS, PRICES AND VALUE CHAINS FOR THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR
GREENROOM | A1-22
9:00 – 10:30 | C. 23 | MONITORING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
Session Organizer: M. Sabbatini | Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale | Cassino | Italy
M. Sassi | Universita’ degli Studi di Pavia | Pavia | Italy

PHILIPPINE ROOM | C2-77
9:00 – 10:30 | C. 18 | LAND STATISTICS
Session Organizer: K. Deininger | World Bank | Washington D.C. | USA

IRANROOM | B1-16
11:00 – 12:00| C. 17 | MEASURING TRADE PROTECTION AND OTHER FORMS OF INDIRECT TAX/SUBSIDIES
Session Organizer: W. Martin | IFPRI | Washington D.C. | USA

PHILIPPINE ROOM | C2-77
11: 00 – 12: 30 | C. 21 | STATISTICS ON FARM STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS
Session Organizer: Young | USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service | Washington, DC | USA

  • Food security with sustainable livelihood through Integra
    C. Pramanik | Tata Consultancy Services | Hyderabad | India
    S. Pappula | Tata Consultancy Services | Hyderabad | India
    S. Sarangi | Tata Consultancy Services | Mumbai | India
    P. V. Praneet | Tata Consultancy Services | Kochi | India
    S. Selvan | Tata Consultancy Services | Chennai | India
  • Computer usage and internet access at agricultural and horticultural farms in Finland
    J. Laiho-Kauranne | Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) | Helsinki | Finland
    P. Mattila | Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) | Helsinki | Finland
    J. Kyyrä | Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) | Helsinki | Finland
  • How to analyse the farm structure, how to support innovation by data
    E. Laczka | Central Statistical Office | Budapest | Hungary
  • Farm structure: towards an integrated classification framework and typology
    N. Georgieva | FAO | Rome | Italy
    M. C. Ahearn | Consultant, FAO | Rome | Italy
    M-A. Even | FAO | Rome | Italy
    S. Saravia-Matus | Consultant FAO | Rome | Italy

GREENROOM | A1-22
11: 00 – 12: 30 | C. 22 | MEASURING THE EVOLUTION OF FARMING PRACTICES
Session Organizer: A. Sorrentino | Università degli Studi della Tuscia | Viterbo | Italy

CROSS-THEMATIC SET F: DATA SOURCES / DATA COLLECTION / USE OF IT TOOLS / DATA QUALITY
AUSTRIA ROOM | C2-50
9: 00-10: 30 | F. 36 | MASTER SAMPLE FRAME FOR AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS
Session Organizer: R. Benedetti | Universita degli Studi G. d’Annunzio | Chieti – Pescara | Italy
J. Gallego | EC JRC, Econometrics and Applied Statistic | Ispra | Italy

GERMANY ROOM | C2-69
9: 00-10: 30 | F. 38 | POST-DISASTER NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND RAPID ASSESSMENTS TOOLS
Session Organizer: S. Ahmed | FAO | Rome | Italy

  • Unpacking decision bound stories from expert and household focused post disaster needs assessment occurrence in Malawi?
    I. Pangapanga-Phiri | National Statistical Office | Zomba | Malawi
  • Rethinking livestock safety in natural disasters: the way forward with improved social insurance in disaster management in India
    S. Nath | Jawaharlal Nehru University | New Delhi | India
  • Macro-scale assessment and response to natural disasters. an oda approach
    M. C. Bramati | Sapienza University | Rome | Italy

  • D. Barelli | FAO | Rome | Italy
    R. Zapata-Martí | European Union | Brussels | Belgium
    N. Singh | Middle East Research Institute | Erbil | KRI | Iraq

  • A methodology to assess damage and losses from natural hazard-induced disasters in agriculture
    N. Lombardi | FAO | Rome | Italy
    K. Caprazli | FAO | Rome | Italy
    P. Conforti | FAO | Rome | Italy
    C. Raisaro | FAO | Rome | Italy
    S. Ramasamy | FAO | Rome | Italy

AUSTRIA ROOM | C2-50
11: 00-12: 30 | F. 31 | USE OF OPINION POLLS FOR INFORMING FOOD SECURITY AND WELL-BEING MEASUREMENT
Session Organizer: A. Rzepa | Gallup | London | United Kingdom

GERMANY ROOM | C2-69
11: 00-12: 30 | F. 35 | SAMPLING STRATEGIES AND ESTIMATION METHODS FOR INTEGRATION IN AGRICULTURE STATISTICS
Session Organizer: P.D. Falorsi | Istat | Rome | Italy

27 October 2016

GERMAN ROOM C2-69
09:00-10:30 | Expert meeting on rural and urban area definition

SHEIKH ZAYED CENTRE Atrium
13:00 – 14:00 | Launch of sourcebook ‘National socioeconomic surveys in forestry” – guidance and survey modules for measuring the multiple roles of forests in household welfare and livelihoods

28 October 2016

ETHIOPIA ROOM C2-85
08:00 – 09:00 | Meeting of the ISI Committee on agricultural statistics (ISI CAS)

ETHIOPIA ROOM C2-85
13:15 – 14: 00 | Launch of new FAOSTAT