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The FAO Corporate Statistical Database is a multilingual on-line database of statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population that is administered by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The database was available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian and contains data from over from over 210 countries and territories.
FAOSTAT was the world’s largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food and agriculture. The revamped version was released in summer 2006. It contained over 1 billion data points (cells), 40 million of which are updated annually, and over 3 million time-series records. The FAOSTAT site received over 3,000,000 daily hits and 50 million records are downloaded every day. It represented more than a quarter of the visits to FAO's site each day and most of the bandwidth. It's thought that it was a hundred fold increase between 2002 and 2007
The methodological framework, processing and dissemination systems of FAOSTAT were re-developed together with its coverage, commodity classifications, statistical and meta databases to provide more up-to-date and reliable statistics, based on user requests and feedbacks. The important development work of four decades seems to have ended on FAOSTAT at the end of 2007? It's thought to be currently maintained at a lower level?
World Agricultural Trade Flows and the World Agricultural Trade Matrix
The World Agricultural Trade Flows application consisted of a Macromedia Flash application that shows graphically the trade of agricultural food commodities between nations all around the world.
The World Agricultural Trade Matrix, a related product, displayed agriculture related trade by source and destination in a matrix format, for analytical purposes.
It was the world's only application that allows the display and analysis of information relating to the agri-food trade, by source and destination, for quantities and values. It was possible to see data about wheat trade as for alfalfa for forage rather than breakfast cereals and so on. It was released for the first time in 2002.
Also available were the primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Flows and the primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Matrix where all trade of transformed commodities is reduced to primary equivalent by using calorie based conversion factors. Reportedly progress seems slowed too?; not clear.
External links
- Detailed World Agricultural Trade Matrix (WATM)
- Detailed World Agricultural Trade Flows (WATF)
- Primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Matrix (WATM)
- Primary equivalent World Agricultural Trade Flows (WATF)
- forecasters wrong
- Hungry? Sept 2008
- More Hungry Dec 2008
- And even more ( catch up?)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
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