Nigeria: UK U.S.$25 Million Funding to Boost Agric Statistics

9 April 2012

The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has signed an agreement with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to donate £16 million ($25 million) to support an innovative new global partnership that would improve the agricultural statistics available to governments and farmers around the world.

The Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics builds capacity of developing countries to produce and use agricultural and rural statistics for more effective food security, sustainable agricultural and rural development policies and helps makes the information available to farmers when and where they need it.

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