FAO: World Agriculture Information Centre

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announces the launch of its newest endeavour to fight hunger with information, the WAICENT Internet Portal located at www.fao.org/waicent.

WAICENT stands for the World Agriculture Information Centre, FAO's strategic programme for improving access to documents, statistics, maps and multimedia resources to millions of users around the globe.

WAICENT's information includes thousands of full-text publications and technical documents on agriculture, fisheries, nutrition and forestry available through the Internet, on specific subjects such as trends in trade, country-specific information, food safety and deforestation; codes of conduct, interactive tools for use at the national level, and early warning and disaster prevention systems; data, including maps and charts, obtained through the FAO online statistical databases, containing over one million time-series records, covering international statistics in the area of agricultural production, trade indices, food supply, land and food aid; and thousands of other multimedia resources available throughout the FAO web site.

More information:
- FAO Press Release (16 October 2001)
- WAICENT

Date of publication: 21/10/2001

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