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The state of food and agricultureone of faos major annual flagship publications aims at bringing to a wider audience balanced science based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agricultureeach edition of the report contains a comprehensive yet easily accessible overview of a selected topic of major relevance for rural and agriculture development and for global food . Get this from a library the state of food and agriculture 1998 food and agriculture organization of the united nations. In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agriculture situation each issue of the state of food and agriculture from 1957 has included one or more special studies of problems of longer term interest this years edition focuses on rural non farm income in developing countries. State of food and agriculture the report finds that while biofuels will offset only a modest share of fossil energy use over the next decade they will have much bigger impacts on agriculture and food security the emergence of biofuels as a new and significant source of demand for some agricultural commodities. The state of food and agriculture is the food and agriculture organisations major annual flagship publication it aims at bringing to wider audience balanced science based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture each edition of the report contains a comprehensive yet easily accessible overview of selected topic