Guidelines for designing and implementing grain stock surveys
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The capacity-building component of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides for the development of guidelines and methodologies to improve crop production forecast estimates, data on market prices and stocks statistics. Reliable data on stocks will help decision makers to understand food availability, plan the necessary interventions on market stabilization, and address issues related to food insecurity. This document is i ntended for statisticians and managers of national statistics offices who wish to develop or improve survey programmes for the direct measurement of grain and other food stocks. It provides guidance and tools for direct measurement of food stocks, discusses current and best practices for stock estimation through sample surveys, reflects on conceptual, technical, human and budgetary issues related to stock surveys, and provides examples and tools for countries wishing to develop their stock surve y programmes. These Guidelines have been prepared on the basis of assessments of the methods currently used by countries to produce data on stocks, and seek to help countries design and implement both on-farm and off-farm stocks.