DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS
STATISTICS DIVISION
UNITED NATIONS
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SEEA for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Global Consultation Comment Form
Deadline for responses: 30 January 2015
Please send responses to: seea@un.org
Your name:
Your country/organization:
Contact (e.g. email address):
MPABWANAYO Thérence
NIZIGAMA Grégonie
BURUNDI/ISTEEBU
mpatheran2@yahoo.fr
nizigamagreg@yahoo.fr
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e-mail address: seea@un.org.
The comment form has been designed to facilitate the analysis of comments. In Part I general
comments on the general style, structure, content and coverage of the chapter are sought. In
Part II any technical and other comments should be included.
Relevant documents
Before submitting responses you are encouraged to read the accompanying draft paper
available on the SEEA website http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seea.asp
SEEA for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Draft for initial global consultation
Part I: General comments
In this section please provide general comments on the draft. You may like to consider
providing comments on the style and tone, the structure and organisation, the content and
coverage, and the general accessibility of the material.
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries (SEEA AFF) comes to timely in that the Global Strategy for
Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics is about to be developed by almost
all countries of the world. It's a shame for some countries that have already
completed to implement agricultural strategies without taking into account this
new project (SEEAAFF). It would be interesting if they take into account before.
Document content is really interesting. But some modifications, depending on
the context and availability of data for some countries are required. It is for
example some interesting products for a country that has been omitted. I would
mention in passing, for example:
- For agricultural products are omitted beans, potatoes and bananas, which are
extremely important in the diet of most households in Burundi.
- In the forest section, some important products have been set aside. We
considered only plantation timber, forgetting the timber, firewood and certain
timber products that are used extensively as charcoal.
The document is very important in the establishment of Global Strategy for
Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics. Indeed, agricultureand the
environment areclosely linkeddomains. The improvementof the firstdepends
ongoodenvironmental conditions. However, some countries do not have
complete statistics environments. Thus, a common methodology for data
collection in this area is necessary.
Part II: Technical and other comments
In the box below please supply any additional comments including those of a more technical
nature. Please reference your responses with the relevant paragraph numbers or section
numbers.
For questions of technical order, there are data that are needed in the
construction of the accounts but which are not available at all or at least difficult
to obtain. For example, data related to post harvest losses are not available and
are difficult to obtain.
There is also data where it is necessary to harmonize the measurement unit.
This is because often the import or export of animals for example, there are
countries where these data are expressed by heads of animals by species and
others are in kilograms. We specify this because that was a problem at
CountryStat when we had to post on the web site import / export data
expressed in animal heads as we had them in kilograms. So we recommend that
the units must be harmonized and adapted in the same units.
1.2 The scope and approach of SEEA AFFon the table1.1.(pge 4): there isthere are areas
that are omitted such as:
- Biodiversity;
-Waste;
-Coastal and marine resources.
3.5 SEEA AFF Combined presentations: table 3.5. (pge 35)Some food crops can be added
such as beans, cassava and banana or add other food crops like on table 3.6.
Table 3.6. (other livestock products):
Add hides (les peaux).