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==About FAOSTAT==
FAOSTAT is maintained by the Statistics Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the [[United Nations]]. In working directly with the countries, the Statistics Division supports the development of national statistical strategies, the strengthening of [[institutional|Institution]] and technical capacities, and the improvement of statistical systems.
The FAOSTAT system is one of FAO’s most important corporate systems. It is a major component of FAO’s [[information systems]], contributing to the organization’s strategic objective of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and disseminating information relating to [[nutrition]], [[food]] and [[agriculture]] for development and the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. It is at the core of the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT). WAICENT gives access to FAO’s vast store of information on agricultural and food topics – statistical data, documents, books, images, and maps.
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The Trade module provides comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date annual trade statistics by country, region and economic country groups for about 600 individual food and agriculture commodities since 1961.
*'''[[Food Security|Food Supply]]''' Food supply data is some of the most important data in FAOSTAT. In fact, this data is for the basis for estimation of global and national [[malnutrition|undernourishment]] assessment, when it is combined with parameters and other data sets. This data has been the foundation of [[Food Balance Sheet
*'''Agri-Environmental Indicators'''. Agri-environmental indicators (AEI) are indicators able to describe and assess state and trends in the environmental performance of agriculture to furnish useful indications to [[
*'''[[Food Balance Sheet]]''' A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's [[food supply]] during a specified reference period. Food Balance Sheets are prepared for both individual countries and regional/economic country aggregates. The domain covers production, trade, [[fodder|feed]] and [[seed]], waste, other utilisation, and food availability.
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