Publications
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Tree crops - Guidelines for estimating area data
03/01/2011
Temporary crops are sown and harvested during the same agricultural year - Permanent crops are sown or planted once and then , they occupy the...
Crops statistics - Concepts, definitions and classifications
03/01/2011
Primary crops are those which come directly from the land and without having undergone any real processing, apart from cleaning. They maintain all the biological...
Livestock statistics - Concepts, definitions and classifications
03/01/2011
The importance of collecting and publishing countries' agricultural statistics and the difficulties encountered in assembling them according to the maximum possible degree of international comparability...
Rural Households’ Livelihood and Well-Being. Statistics on Rural Development and Agriculture Household Income
03/01/2011
Large amounts of public funds are used to support farmers and their households in OECD countries. The current round of multi-lateral trade liberalization negotiations will...
Selected indicators of food and agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region 2000-2010
03/01/2011
This is the twenty-seventh issue of the above publication, a comprehensive and detailed...
FAO Statistical Yearbook 2010
20/10/2010
The FAO Statistical Yearbook provides a selection of indicators on food and agriculture by country. The data are drawn from FAOSTAT, the Organization’s corporate statistical...
Food and nutrition security assessment in Sudan. Analysis of 2009 national baseline household survey
02/08/2010
This report provides a summary analysis of food insecurity in Sudan and by States, area of residence and different functional groups in the country. It...
Selected indicators of food and agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region 1999-2009
01/01/2010
This is the twenty-sixth issue of the above publication, a comprehensive and detailed compilation of statistics on farming, livestock, fishery, forestry and nutrition in Asia-Pacific...
2000 World Census: Main Results and Metadata. Main Results and Metadata by Country (1996-2005)
01/01/2010
Beginning with 1950 FAO has been preparing and advocating a decennial World Programmes for the Census of Agriculture (WCA), and the 2000 Programme was the...
The FAO parametric versus IFPRI non-parametric approach to estimating the prevalence of undernourishment: Issues relating to the use of household level data from National Household Surveys. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/012e
01/12/2009
A non-parametric approach suggested by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for measuring food deprivation (undernourishment) is not an improvement to the...
