FAO Statistical Yearbook 2012

AFRICA Food and agriculture

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Accra, Ghana 2013

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Table of contents

Introduction     Foreword     Acknowledgements	[319Kb]
PART 1 – The setting     People and demography     Women in agriculture     Land and water resources     Labour     Capital and investment     Inputs     Infrastructure     Macroeconomy     Tables	[8.1Mb]
PART 2 – Hunger dimensions     Availability     Access     Inadequate access to food     Utilization     Vulnerability/stability     Risks, hazards and shocks     Poverty and inequality     Food aid     Tables	[8.1Mb]
PART 3 – Feeding the world     Aggregate agriculture     Sources of growth in crop production     Trends in the crop sector     Trends in the livestock sector     Trends in the fisheries sector     Trends in agricultural trade     Urban and peri-urban agriculture     Food losses     Tables	[7.7Mb]
PART 4 – Sustainability dimensions:     Land     Water     Pollution from agriculture     Climate change     Biodiversity and conservation     Organic farming     Genetically modified crops     Agriculture and the bio-based economy     Tables	[10.5Mb]
PART 5 – Metadata     Indicators list     Definitions     References     World Wide Web sites visited	[530Kb]

ABSTRACT

The FAO Statistical Yearbook 2012: Africa Food and Agriculture, disseminates statistical information that will help all stakeholders to access, easily and quickly, a set of statistics on food and agriculture related to the current themes and domains of interest in the region. The document provides users in Africa and abroad with statistics and reliable indicators on food and agriculture that can be used for policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation.

These statistics and indicators cover a wide range of themes: agricultural production, productivity and growth, investment, rural population and well-being, poverty, rural employment, gender, food security, food safety and nutrition, natural resource use in agricultural activities (e.g. land, water and forest), climate change, environmental pollution and biodiversity.

The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. The views expressed in this information product are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of FAO.

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