Agricultural and Rural Situation Assessing


Our director, Ian Robinson (Dr W. I. Robinson) has led or participated in 45 Crop and Food Supply Assessment Missions internationally for the FAO/WFP (Food and Agriculture Organisation / World Food Programme). Until 2005, these contracts were delivered through the Centre for Arid Zone Studies (CAZS-NR), where he was Director. Since 2006, AA International Ltd has been contracted directly to deliver this service.

We are now offering similar services directly to other International Agencies, NGOs and Governments.

These are listed below. More information about them can be accessed by clicking onto the relevant link:

Crop and Food Supply Assessments

Training in how to plan, organise and conduct Crop and Food Supply Assessments;

Production of manuals including Pictorial Evaluation Tools (PET manuals) for RAPID PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT of crops at harvest time.

Conducting regional/ national/ local  market surveys.  



AA International blog

Sudan ( Northern States) Crop Assessment 2009/2010

AA International Ltd trained MoA and FAO-SIFSIA crops and food supply assessors prior to an Assessment conducted in Nov/ Dec 2009. The Assessment Mission Report was written by AA International's Director, Ian Robinson, from the information obtained by the trained teams and from reports prepared by FAO-SIFSIA, Khartoum. The Mission Highlights are given here and access to the approved version of the report may be found in the Crop and Food Supply Assessments Section of the website:

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Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission, South Sudan

FAO release 18th February 2010 - full report now available by going to www.fao.org/giews

Mission highlights are summarised in the blog:

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