So I was playing around with the agriculture data on WRI’s EarthTrends the other day. Actually it’s mainly — though not entirely — data from FAOStat, and there are the usual provisos about the methodology. ((“Data are reported to FAO by country governments through surveys. Individual countries have different methods of data collection. Estimates are made by FAO for countries that either do not report data or only partially report data. FAO provides detailed methodology at http://faostat.fao.org/site/362/default.aspx.” And there’s more…)) But look at what has been happening to turkey numbers in developed countries lately.
Numbers doubled between 2003 and 2004! Is that real? If so, what’s been driving the trend?