Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database
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The 'Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) website disseminates statistical data collected and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the following subject domains:
- Agricultural Production
- Food and Agriculture Trade
- Food Balance Sheets
- Agricultural Price Statistics
- Agricultural Resources
- Forestry Production and Trade Flows
Data are provided as a time-series from 1961 in most domains for over 200 countries
The FAOSTAT system is one of FAO’s most important corporate systems. It is a major component of FAO’s information systems, contributing to the organization’s strategic objective of collecting, analyzing, interpreting and disseminating information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. It is at the core of the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) through which access is given to FAO’s vast store of information on agricultural and food topics – statistical data, documents, books, images, and maps.
Data contained in the FAOSTAT system is regularly published both in hard copy yearbooks as well as on CDs. Details of these can be found in the website for the Statistics Division of FAO.[1]
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[edit] Description of subject domains
- Agricultural Production
Data are provided on: area harvested, yield, production quantity and seed for primary crops; production quantity for processed crops; stock of live animals; producing/slaughtered animals, yield and production quantity for primary livestock commodities; and producing/slaughtered animals and production quantity for processed livestock commodities.
Agricultural Production Indices (gross, net and per capita in International Dollars for each year in comparison to a base period) for Agriculture and it’s component commodities, Cereals, Crops, Food, Livestock and Non-Food have been calculated at country, regional and world levels. The Value of Agricultural Production is available for countries and agricultural commodities, expressed in local currency units.
- Food and Agriculture Trade
The TradeSTAT module provides comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date annual trade statistics by country, region and economic country groups for about 600 individual food and agriculture commodities since 1961. Data are provided for imports and exports, quantity and value for crops and livestock products and live animals.
The Detailed Trade Matrix provides data by reporting and partner country. This data is also shown in map format in the Detailed World Agricultural Trade Flows application.
Trade Indices are calculated for Crops and Livestock, primary and processed. Values for Import Value at Base Period Quantity, Export Value at Base Period Quantity, Import Value at Base Period Price and Export Value at Base Period Price are given in 1000$. Index numbers are a figure reflecting a change in value or quantity as compared with a standard or base. The base usually equals 100 and the index number is usually expressed as a percentage.
- Food Balance Sheets
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item i.e. each primary commodity availability for human consumption which corresponds to the sources of supply and its utilisation. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilisation side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock + used for seed, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking in it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products also in terms of dietary energy value, protein and fat content.
Food Balance Sheets are prepared for both individual countries and regional/economic country aggregates. The domain covers production, trade, feed and seed, waste, other utilisation and consumption and data is provided in quantity or calorie.
- Agricultural Price Statistics
This domain covers Annual Producer Prices in Local Currency Units, Standard Local Currencies and US Dollars, for crop and livestock products. PriceSTAT covers data from 1991 onwards for over 130 countries world-wide, representing 97% of the world’s value of production at 1999-2001 International Dollar Prices.
- Agricultural Resources
The Resources module considers factors of production for the agricultural sector. Broadly speaking, this section details how countries differ in endowments of the three classic inputs: labour, land and capital. Qualitative differences are important for each but are particularly difficult to summarise in a single indicator for land, the productivity of which depends heavily on water and soil conditions.
This domain currently provides data on: Fertilizers, Pesticides, Land, Machinery and Population.
- Forestry Production and Trade Flows
The Forestry domain covers the production and trade of: Industrial Roundwood, Wood Pulp, Wood Fuel, Paper and Paperboard, Sawnwood, Recovered Paper, Wood-based Panels. The Trade Flow data is provided by Reporter and Partner country.
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[edit] External links
- FAOSTAT
- Detailed World Agricultural Trade Matrix (WATM)
- Detailed World Agricultural Trade Flows (WATF)
- More Hungry Dec 2008
- And even more June 2009; "The number of hungry has increased from 825 million people in 1995-97, to 857 million in 2000-02 and 873 million in 2004-06. In a turn around, for 2008, FAO revised its provisional estimate of hungry people from 963 down to 915 million, due primarily to a better-than-expected global food supply and a switch in methodology as FAO's estimates of the number of hungry people in 2009 were from analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA?
- now a billion admitted
