The agri benchmark Network contributes its expert knowledge to international organizations like the FAO. Especially developing countries and emerging economies benefit from the results of agri benchmark research.
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the United Nation´s forum for reviewing and following up on policies concerning world food security. It also examines issues which affect the world food situation.
On October 2011 agri benchmark, supported by the German Ministry of Food, organized a side-event at the 37th session of the CFS in Rome. agri benchmark Network members highlighted the information agri benchmark can offer to improve policy interventions especially in developing countries.
(Presentations at the CFS side-event)
You can only manage what you can measure - Why we need farm level data and what we do with them (Evans, 2011)
What is agri benchmark? (Zimmer, 2011)
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Small holder economics - an agri benchmark study on Indonesian beef production (Deblitz, 2011)
CFS37 side event: Farm level monitoring and projections (Feiler, 2011)
Further information:
Report on the agri benchmark side-event at the CFS in Rome (press release)
