
Technological Innovation is a Game-Changer for Agricultural Statistics
Both emerging and existing technologies should complement each other to bolster agricultural data quality.
Nagraj focuses on agricultural statistics, impact evaluation, poverty measurement and analysis, and methodological research on survey technology. Before joining ADB, he worked with the National Statistics Office in Liberia, and spearheaded Liberia’s first Household Income and Expenditure Survey. He was also Research Analyst and Impact Evaluation Coordinator in the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group and Africa Education Unit, where he implemented household and agricultural panel surveys alongside supporting baseline activities for impact evaluations in Tanzania.
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Both emerging and existing technologies should complement each other to bolster agricultural data quality.
Lakshman Nagraj Rao, Jude David Roque, Anna Christine D. Durante
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Spatially explicit maps of crop yields can help countries improve overall agricultural productivity.
Weak statistics and informal land area measurement techniques can distort agricultural policies, ADB research shows.
A case study in Viet Nam demonstrates how technological improvements in the survey world help improve data quality and consequently development impact.
Innovative data collection methods for agricultural and rural statistics can help small farmers in Southeast Asia.
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