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The main source of agricultural, forestry and fisheries data is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The World Resources Institute provides data in its data base and the World Bank also provides limited data online.

FAO -- FAO sells a large database on a CD-ROM for $US600. (FAO also provides online access to the data base for fees starting at $US1,200 per year).This database contains more than 1 million time-series records. For more information on the CDROM go to http://www.fao.org/catalog/book_review/giii/x9091-e.htm . For information on the fee structure for the online database go to http://apps.fao.org/faoscribe.htm. FAO also makes data from the database available online free including time series on a range of topics by country and by region.  The free data is from a searchable online database which limits the number of records which can be downloaded from any one search.  The index of searchable data bases is available at http://apps.fao.org/default.htm .

World Resources Institute -- The WRI provides online data in EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal". WRI provides a searchable time-series database with coverage of more than 500 indicators for 220 countries. Topics include Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems; Climate and Atmosphere; Population, Health and Human Well-being; Economics, Business and the Environment; Energy and Resources; Biodiversity and Protected Areas; Agriculture and Food; and Forests and Drylands.  The searchable database permits searching for a single indicator but over a full range of countries and years. The result can be downloaded into csv format. The system also provides data tables and country profiles in pdf format, maps and feature stories. The database is available at http://earthtrends.wri.org/ . The data is also available in a CDROM for $US 125 . Information on the CDROM is available at http://www.wristore.com/woredacd20.html

World Bank -- The World Bank provides agricultural data in time series on its subscription data base  World Development Indicators data base. You can get the data for the latest year for a single country from links on http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html 

United Nations -- Data on the agricultural indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals is available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp .