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This yearbook includes data series on area, yield and production of crops; on livestock numbers and products; and on population, land use, irrigation and farm machinery, for the years 1997-1999. It also gives total and per caput index numbers that highlight trends in food and agricultural production across all countries and continents for the years 1988-1999. The data are disseminated to serve the needs of scholars, economists, policy-makers, decision-makers as well as industry professionals and those professionals in the capital markets.