The Lubin Files

Food Security Statistics

I recently found this page, which is a great source of food security statistics (compiled from the FAO publication, "State of Food Insecurity").

Data is presented in the form of Excel spreadsheets.

OECD publications for FAO staff

Don't forget that FAO staff have free access to many OECD publications through the OLISNET database.

OECD requires each user to have an individual password.  You can request one from this page by clicking on the "subscription form" link.

If you need a document urgently before your password arrives, you can always contact us at fao-library-reference@fao.org

Thanks to Francesca

Dear Ms. Launaro,

Thank you so much for your help in our search for the street food articles. The information that you provided helped us to locate a report that we have in our collection. I have passed the information on to the student and I think that it may be enough to get her started on her project.

Once again, thank you very much for your prompt reply to our request. It has been very useful.

Best wishes,

[A librarian from]
University of British Columbia

Food Security Statistics from 2000

We were recently contacted by someone who has come across the well publicized figure of 1 billion people in a state of food insecurity.  This researcher wanted to know if we could provide statistics on the figure from 2000.

I found the answer here, on FAO's hunger portal.  This portal provides the current year's figure with historical figures back to 1971.  It also displays FAO's interactive hunger map and a list of related links like the Millenium Development Goals.

Elsevier launches Sciverse

Elsevier launched Sciverse, the new Elsevier platform that combines ScienceDirect (fulltext journal articles) and Scopus (abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/