Caribbean Librarian for Agriculture

FAO announced   that it  is granting free and open access to its central data repository, FAOSTAT , the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture. Prior to this only limited information was  available on FAOSTAT. "FAOSTAT includes data on agricultural and food production, usage of fertilizers and pesticides, food aid shipments, food balance sheets, forestry and fisheries production, irrigation and water use, land use, population trends, trade in agricultural products, the use of agricultural machinery, and more. FAOSTAT can be consulted using English, French or Spanish and allows users to select and organize the statistical information into tables and charts according to their needs and to download it in Excel format. The original statistic data is supplied by individual countries and regional development organizations in standardized formats. Records go back to 1961, the dawn of the Green Revolution." Click this l...

The Statistics Sub-programme compiles statistics on the member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) .  These data are submitted to the Secretariat by the member states themselves, either by the National Statistics Office or the Central Bank, depending on the nature of the data. Occasionally, in the absence of data from the member states, third party sources would be utilised. The data collected are used for multiple purposes-updating of databases, production of statistical reports, providing specified data for analysis. URL: http://caricomstats.org/index.htm