Developing Capacity for Implementing Agricultural Census 2019 - TCP/SAM/3702
| dc.coverage | Samoa | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:57:08Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:57:08Z | |
| dc.date | 2022 | |
| dc.date | 2022-08-12T09:45:59.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T23:04:03Z | |
| dc.description | Samoa is a Pacific island country with a population estimated at 202 506 in 2021 Samoa’s traditional economy is dominated by community based agriculture and fisheries However, although more than 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas, agriculture and fisheries contribute only 9 6 percent to the gross domestic product Agriculture and fisheries remain at the forefront of the government’s economic growth strategy The Agriculture Sector Plan ( 2016 2020 provides the framework for the development of the sector and focuses on strengthening regulatory frameworks, improving food security and income in rural areas, enhancing competitiveness and ensuring an environmentally sustainable sector The Plan emphasizes the need to strengthen agricultural data collection to provide a better evidence base for agricultural policy making Under the Statistics Act 2015 the SBS was mandated to conduct an agricultural census in 2019 as part of a ten yearly cycle of agricultural censuses The Samoa Agricultural Census 2019 (SAC 2019 was included in the national statistical programme as part of the Samoa Strategy for the Development of Statistics 2011. | |
| dc.format | 9 | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc1524en | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cc1524en/cc1524en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/270943 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.rights | CC BY NC SA 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.title | Developing Capacity for Implementing Agricultural Census 2019 - TCP/SAM/3702 | |
| dc.type | Project |