Expert consultation on farmers' income statistics
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Recent reports have shown that the decline in the $1-a-day poverty rate in developing countries - from 28 percent in 1993 to 22 percent in 2002 - has been mainly the result of falling rural poverty rates. Underestimation of farm income and gaps in data distorts or blurs the vision of policy-makers in governments and international development organizations, and handicaps national and international financial systems in the optimal allocation of resources to agriculture and rural development. Given that significant amounts of resources have been and will be committed to rural development programmes that require continual monitoring and evaluation, the impact of improper or ineffective policies can have costly implications. To fill these information gaps, alternative methods are needed to complete the analysis. This expert consultation on Farmers' Income Statistics, held in Bangkok, Thailand from 11 to 14 December 2007, aimed to contribute to the improvement of farmers' income statistics i n the Asia-Pacific region and to make recommendations for improvement of the collection and analysis of farmers' income data, thereby strengthening FAO's technical assistance and capacity building activities for the further development of statistical analysis programmes in member countries. Recommendations are provided in the report.