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Exchange rates. FAOSTAT analytical brief 6
11/05/2020
Exchange rates are defined as the price of one country’s currency in relation to another. Exchange rates are expressed as the average rate for a...
Agriculture producer price indices. FAOSTAT analytical brief 5
04/05/2020
The FAO indices of agricultural products measure the average annual change over time in the selling prices received by farmers (prices at the farm-gate or...
Drained organic soils 1990–2019. Global, regional and country trends. FAOSTAT analytical brief 4
20/04/2020
FAOSTAT statistics provide information on the area of drained organic soils for agriculture around the world and the resulting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to the...
Consumer price indices and food inflation. FAOSTAT analytical brief 3
10/04/2020
Global and regional consumer price indices (CPI) measure food inflation for a group of countries at different geographical scales. Global CPI covers 193 countries worldwide....
The coronavirus and the potential blackout of national statistics: Reorganizing national statistical systems in the context of COVID-19
01/04/2020
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, National Statistical Services at country level remain committed to providing their policymakers, their economy and society with the...
Impact of COVID-19 on national censuses of agriculture (Status overview)
01/04/2020
The FAO Statistics Division is monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on national agricultural censuses and provides an overview of its effects on ongoing...
Temperature change statistics 1961–2019. Global, regional and country trends. FAOSTAT analytical brief 2
11/03/2020
The FAOSTAT Temperature Change domain contains statistics of surface air temperature (0C), disseminated by country and region, with global coverage, over the period 1961–2019, for...
The share of agriculture in total greenhouse gas emissions. Global, regional and country trends 1990–2017. FAOSTAT analytical brief 1
18/02/2020
FAO provides estimates of the percentage contribution of agriculture emissions to total GHG emissions. These statistics are disseminated in the FAOSTAT Emissions shares dataset, at...
FAO’s methodology for damage and loss assessment in agriculture. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series / 19-17
03/02/2020
This paper presents the FAO Damage and Loss Assessment methodology as a framework for identifying, analyzing and evaluating the impact of disasters on agriculture, including...
