Chair: Director, Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Department of Agriculture

Co-Chair: Director, Economic and Statistics Office
National Statistical Coordination Board

Vice Chair: Director, Agriculture Staff
National Economic and Development Authority

Members:

Director, Policy Research
Department of Agriculture

Executive Director, National Agricultural and Fishery Council
Department of Agriculture

Executive Director
Statistical Research and Training Center

Director, Livestock Development Council
Department of Agriculture

Director, Business Development and Promotions Directorate
National Food Authority

Director, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Department of Agriculture

Director, Agricultural Credit and Policy Council
Department of Agriculture

Chief, Census Planning and Operations Division
Household Statistics Department
National Statistics Office

Senior Research Fellow
Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Technical Staff
Union of Local Authorities in the Philippines

1. To serve as a forum for the discussion of the issues raised by concerned producers and users of agriculture, fishery and forestry statistics;
2. To assess and evaluate existing statistics on the agriculture, fishery and forestry sector in terms of quality, usefulness and timeliness, and determine areas of duplication, discrepancies and gaps;
3. To review the concepts, techniques, and methodologies used in the collection, processing and reporting of agriculture, fishery and forestry statistics to ensure conformity with prescribed statistical standards; and
4. To recommend an efficient and workable scheme for the allocation of agency responsibilities in the production of agriculture, fishery and forestry statistics

The IACAFS did not convene in 2010.

1. Recommended official concepts and terms for the agriculture and fishery sector for presentation to the Board
2. Assessment of the extent of discrepancy of imports data from NSO and the Bureau of Animal Industry
3. Development of indicators on fishing effort
4. Inputs for the 2011-2017 PSDP chapters

• Memorandum Order No. 01-95
  Creating An Inter-Agency Committee On Agriculture, Fishery And Forestry Statistics
• Memorandum Order No. 01-2000
  Reorganizing The Inter-Agency Committee On Agriculture, Fishery And Forestry Statistics
• Memorandum Order No. 05-03
  Reconstituting The Inter-Agency Committee On Agriculture, Fishery And Forestry Statistics
• NSCB Resolution No. 07-05
  Approving the General Policy on Revising the Data on Agricultural Production, Prices and Related Statistics of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
• Memorandum Order No. 04-09
  Reconstituting and Renaming the Interagency Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry Statistics into the Interagency Committee on Agriculture and Fishery Statistics