Selected indicators of food and agricultural development in the Asia-pacific region 2000-2010

This document is the twenty-seventh issue of the publication Selected indicators of food and agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region. It presents data on selected items for the years 1999-2009, except for some tables that also provide information for 2010. Most tables show two types of information: annual figures for 1999, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and the average annual growth rate for the period 1999-2009. The indicators are grouped under the following headings: Agricultural land and population, Agricultural inputs, Production indices, Staple food crops, Edible oil crops, Horticultural crops, Fibre crops, Other crops, Livestock, Agricultural trade, Fisheries, Forestry, Nutrition and Other indicators, including two tables reporting the status of organic farming and the production and trade of biofuels in the region. A section on country profiles precedes the tables. Member countries in the region are shown under two main groups: "Developing countries/ transition economies" and "Developed countries". Subregional totals are also shown under the first group. Statistics obtained using data values from all of these member countries are labeled as "Asia-Pacific". For comparison purposes, figures relating to "Rest of world" and "World" are also presented. Country data for Timor-Leste were reported as provincial data for Indonesia before 2000. In addition, the Russian Federation has been included in the subregion North and Central Asia. For almost all commodity tables, data are mainly retrieved from the FAO computerized data bases, especially FAOSTAT, on the basis of information available as of August 2011. Data given for 2010 was still incomplete and preliminary as of that date. These data are based on information supplied by member countries. Other sources of data are cited.