Faostat, FAO

Statistical database on agriculture produced by FAO. Seven separate databases: agricultural production (crops and livestock); trade (agricultural commodities); land use (including irrigated land); agricultural inputs (fertilisers, pesticides and agricultural machinery); food/commodity balances (at national level); producer prices (for crops and livestock), forest products; population; food aid shipments

Data is available in:

(a) PC Diskette: one series per disc

(b) FAO/WAICENT WWW server: data is available as both pre-formatted files and as a searchable database (producing either customised tables or a file for downloading in CSV format: if you want to download more than 500 records per search in CSV format a paid subscription is required (USD 1200 p.a, USD 600 for developing countries.) which allows a search limit of 5,000 records and an option to download larger sets by FTP. The service is known as FAOSTAT

(c) CDROM version: data from 1961-96 in the 1998 version

(d) In print as annual FAO Yearbook for each series. The production data/indices is also available in the FAO Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics