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The Agricultural Outlook is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy...

Food outlook is a biannual publication (June and November) focusing on developments affecting global food commodity markets. FAO’s latest assessments indicate a relatively optimistic outlook...

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook database includes detailed commodity information used to prepare the projections, as well as the main underlying trends in key macro-economic variables and population. The data...

Emerging economies will be pivotal in shaping the global agricultural landscape, with India expected to overtake China as the leading player. Yet calorie intake growth in low-income...

Highlights: Dairy farmers adopted, on average, only 53 percent of recommended food safety measures. Farmers associated with formal channels had higher compliance with FSM...

FAO’s latest assessments indicate varying trends across commodities. Production of wheat, maize, and sugar is decreasing, while increases are expected in dairy, fisheries, meats...

FAO’s latest forecasts point to increases in production and higher closing stocks across several basic foodstuffs. However, global food production systems remain vulnerable...

There are a wide range of biotechnologies available and many of them have been, and are currently being, used in many situations and sectors worldwide to solve the myriad...

Highlights: The global livestock sector contributes a significant share to anthropogenic GHG emissions, but it can also deliver a significant share of the necessary mitigation effort. The need...

This technical note was written by the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) as part of the project “AgrInvest-Food Systems: Enabling inclusive and efficient private sector investment...