Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
The Food and Agriculture Organization provides UNdata with two data products:
FAOSTAT and
The State of Food Insecurity in the World.
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FAOSTAT
FAO Statistics Division
FAOSTAT provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs in its core data set. The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being implemented in about 20 countries and three regions. It offers a two-way bridge amongst sub-national, national, regional and international statistics on food and agriculture.
FAOSTAT Home page
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FAO Fertilizer Data
FAO Statistics Division
The complete FAO fertilizer dataset from FAOSTAT (2002-2006) for 146 countries and areas.
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World
FAO Economic and Social Department
The State of Food Insecurity in the World reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015.
FAO has the mandate to monitor progress in hunger reduction based on accurate, reliable and timely methods that measure the prevalence of hunger, food insecurity and vulnerability and that also illustrate changes over time.
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