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State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2005 (FAO)

Appendices provide number and percent of people in less developed countries who are undernourished
Calories available per person, main starchy food, and life expectancy (as low as 40 in some African countries)
PDF format; approximately 1 MB

State of the Land (USDA)

Maps depict U.S. croplands, grazing lands, forest lands, and wetlands by acreage and their threats (e.g. soil erosion)
Includes statistical tables in HTML or ASCII format

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980; international agency since 1983
Full text of most federal tables available online beginning 2007 and international beginning 2008
Power searches indexes individual tables in federal and state statistical abstracts and provides the data
Search abstracts searches annotations for all publications in the data base and provides some hot links

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S. Food and Nutrition Service)

United States Agency for International Development

Extensive descriptions of its programs to alleviate world poverty with assistance on agriculture, disease, climate changes and the environment
Web site searchable by country, broad subject, or keyword
Some data available

Web Soil Survey (NASS)

World Resources Institute

Conference papers, working papers, and statistics on sustainable development worldwide
Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country data on the environment, fisheries, forestry, water, weather, and pesticide use
Earth Trends database and its Agricultural Database are the richest sources of statistics