Skip to content

Read FAO

Source: R/readFAO.R
readFAO.Rd

Read in FAO data that has been bulk downloaded from the FAOSTAT website. Files with exception of fodder.csv are aquired from: http://faostat.fao.org/Portals/_Faostat/Downloads/zip_files/

Usage

readFAO(subtype)

Arguments

subtype

Type of FAO data that should be read. Available types are:

  • `CBCrop`: Commodity Balance Crop (CommodityBalances_Crops_E_All_Data.zip)

  • `CBLive`: Commoditiy Balance Livestock (CommodityBalances_LivestockFish_E_All_Data.zip)

  • `Crop`: Production Crops ("Production_Crops_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `CropProc`: Production Crops Processed ("Production_CropsProcessed_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `Fbs`: Food Balance Sheet ("FoodBalanceSheets_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `Fertilizer`: Fertilizer ("Resources_Fertilizers_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `Fodder`: Fodder (data that has been manually downloaded from the FAOSTAT website as seperate .xls files via a search for "forage" and "fodder" withing Production-Crops. These datasets have been added together to a "Fodder.csv" file)

  • `FoodSecurity`: Food Security Data ("Food_Security_Data_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `FSCrop`: Food Supply Crops ("FoodSupply_Crops_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `FSLive`: Food Supply Livestock ("FoodSupply_LivestockFish_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `Land`: Land ("Resources_Land_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `LiveHead`: Production Live Animals ("Production_Livestock_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `LivePrim`: Production Livestock Primary ("Production_LivestockPrimary_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `LiveProc`: Production Livestock Processed ("Production_LivestockProcessed_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `Pop`: Population ("Population_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `ForestProdTrade`: Forestry Production and Trade ("Forestry_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip")

  • `PricesProducerAnnual`: Producer Prices - Annual ("Prices_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `PricesProducerAnnualLCU`: Producer Prices - Annual in LCU ("Prices_E_All_Data.zip")

  • `ValueOfProd`: Value of Agricultural Production ("Value_of_Production_E_All_Data.zip")

Value

FAO data as MAgPIE object

Details

Update 23-Jan-2017 - Added FAO Forestry production and trade data (Abhi)

See also

[readSource()]

Author

Ulrich Kreidenweis, Abhijeet Mishra, Mishko Stevanovic

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
a <- readSource("FAO", "Crop")
} # }