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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 provides free access to its database FAOstat at http://faostat.fao.org/ . This database has information on production, prices, inputs, food balance sheets, etc.

World Resources Institute -- The WRI provides free online data in EarthTrends. WRI provides a searchable time-series database with a range of indicators for more than 140 countries.  Topics include  Agriculture and Food. 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/ . It is necessary to register to get access to some of the data, but registration is free.

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://data.worldbank.org/topic/agriculture-and-rural-development 

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 .

Gapminder -- Gapminder is an innovative data presentation web site which provides dynamic views of data changes over time using bubble graphs. Graphs are available for economic, population, health (including HIV/AIDS), environmental, agricultural and information technology data. Raw data can be downloaded from the site and a desktop version of the software is available free. Users can customize graphs using existing data, but cannot add new data. Much of the data used is from the World Bank and UN organizations. Gapminder is at http://www.gapminder.org .

WFP-- The Food AID Information System (FAIS) makes extensive data available on world food aid. FAIS is at http://www.wfp.org/fais/ .