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The FAO Corporate Statistical Database was 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 currently 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. It contains 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. This is a hundred fold increase just over the last 5 years.
The methodological framework, processing and dissemination systems of FAOSTAT have been 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.
Work stopped on FAOSTAT in December 2007 and all "retro-efforts" were made to dismantle the progress of 5 years. A serious problem now exists both with the methodology and the quick fixes now used. Some had claimed that while FAOSTAT was showing hungry folks were increasing in number, world wide recently, a retro "old guard group" argued that the number was falling and so FAOSTAT was at fault. When the clock will move again?.
World Agricultural Trade Flows and the World Agricultural Trade Matrix
The World Agricultural Trade Flows application consists 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, displays agriculture related trade by source and destination in a matrix format, for analytical purposes.
It is 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 is 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 are 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.
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