The state of food and agriculture 2002 / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

"Included in this issue is the SOFA 2002 CD-ROM, containing time series data for 150 countries, country groups and regions in English, French and Spanish, together with FAOSTAT TS software to ensure easy access and use"--Page 4 of cover

Foreword v
Glossary xvii
Explanatory note xx
PART I World review
Current Agricultural Situation - Facts and Figures
3 (35)
Trends in undernourishment
3 (3)
Crop and livestock production
6 (5)
Food shortages and emergencies
11 (3)
World cereal supply situation
14 (3)
External assistance to agriculture
17 (3)
Food aid flows
20 (3)
Commodity price trends
23 (6)
Fisheries: production, disposition and trade
29 (4)
Production and trade of forest products
33 (5)
The Global Economy and Agriculture
38 (13)
World economic environment
38 (13)
World trade and commodity prices
39 (3)
Implications of the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference for agriculture
42 (6)
Notes
48 (3)
PART II Regional review
Africa
51 (21)
Regional overview
51 (6)
General economic performance
51 (3)
Agricultural performance
54 (3)
Women farmers' productivity in sub-Saharan Africa
57 (8)
Introduction
57 (1)
The role and importance of women farmers
57 (5)
Gender differentials in agricultural productivity and constraints facing women farmers
62 (2)
Conclusion and policy implications
64 (1)
Tsetse and trypanosomiasis control
65 (7)
Introduction
65 (1)
The direct impact of trypanosomiasis
65 (1)
The indirect impacts of the disease
66 (2)
Cost-benefit ratios for tsetse control
68 (1)
Conclusion
69 (3)
Asia and the Pacific
72 (24)
Regional overview
72 (5)
General economic performance
72 (1)
Agricultural performance
73 (4)
China's accession to the World Trade Organization and implications for Chinese agricultural policies
77 (19)
The changing role of agriculture in the Chinese economy
78 (2)
Agricultural policy in the reform period
80 (4)
China's WTO accession commitments and provisions related to agriculture
84 (3)
Recent policy shifts and likely changes as a result of accession to the WTO
87 (8)
Conclusions
95 (1)
Latin America and the Caribbean
96 (26)
Regional overview
96 (5)
General economic performance
96 (1)
Recent agricultural performance
97 (4)
Changing patterns in agricultural trade
101 (21)
Growing importance of agricultural trade relative to production
101 (2)
Declining role of agriculture in total merchandise trade
103 (1)
Stable regional share in world agricultural trade
104 (1)
Diversified product composition of agricultural trade
104 (6)
Geographic diversification of markets
110 (1)
Agricultural trade balances and their economic significance
111 (6)
The price factor
117 (2)
Conclusions
119 (3)
Near East and North Africa
122 (19)
Regional overview
122 (7)
General economic performance
122 (1)
Agricultural performance
123 (6)
Climate variability, aridity and vulnerability to drought
129 (12)
Drought -- a structurally recurrent phenomenon in the region
130 (3)
Water and land resource issues
133 (1)
Impact of recent droughts on crop and livestock production
134 (1)
Impact on population livelihood, household income and rural poverty
134 (2)
Impact on the environment
136 (1)
Government measures for drought prevention and relief of affected groups
137 (2)
From reactive crisis management to proactive risk management in agriculture
139 (2)
Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
141 (14)
Regional overview
141 (3)
Macroeconomic trends and agricultural performance
141 (3)
Land and farms in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS in the period of central planning
144 (1)
Land and farm reform in Central and Eastern European and CIS countries
145 (10)
The establishment of clear and secure rights of land tenure
147 (3)
The creation of farms with an efficient ownership and management structure
150 (1)
The formation of a class of mid-sized commercial farms
151 (2)
Conclusions
153 (2)
Developed Market Economies
155 (20)
Overview
155 (20)
General economic performance
155 (1)
Agricultural performance
155 (5)
Agricultural policy changes
160 (4)
Notes
164 (11)
PART III Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit
The Role of Agriculture and Land in the Provision of Global Public Goods
175 (14)
Introduction
175 (1)
Economic concept of local and global public goods
176 (1)
Public goods associated with the land-cluster chapters of Agenda 21
177 (1)
Progress in the provision of global public goods since Rio-92
178 (4)
Financing global public goods
182 (2)
The need to increase international financial cooperation for promoting global public goods
184 (4)
Conclusions
188 (1)
Harvesting Carbon Sequestration Through Land-Use Change: A Way Out of Rural Poverty?
189
Introduction
189
Climate change and land use: causes and impacts
189
Background on the issue of climate change
189
The role of carbon sequestration through land use in mitigating climate change
191
The Clean Development Mechanism and the potential for carbon payment programmes to stimulate land-use change
192
Poverty and land use
195
Forestry and types of land use affecting above-ground carbon sinks
196
Land uses that affect soil-based carbon sinks
196
Poor land-users as carbon credit suppliers
197
Under what conditions would the poor be willing participants in carbon sequestration schemes?
198
Under what conditions would the poor be competitive carbon sequestration providers?
202
Carbon market design, transactions costs and poor land-users
204
Conclusions
208
Notes
209
Annex table
Countries and territories used for statistical purposes in this publication
215
Time series for SOFA 2002 -- CD-ROM
Instructions for use
221

Reports on current developments and issues in world agriculture. Monitors the global agricultural situation as well as the overall economic environment surrounding world agriculture. Presents and overview of the status of negotiations on agricultural trade following the launching of the World Trade Organization's new round of multilateral trade negotiations. Discusses how public goods such as agriculture, fisheries and forestry properly managed can provided benefits to large sections of people. Calls for increased international inflow of funds towards agriculture and rural areas, in order to promote globally the provision of these public goods

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