Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The EU agricultural outlook, published once a year, presents the outlook for major EU agricultural markets until 2035. It is based on a set of assumptions regarding macroeconomic...

Highlights: A new report of the NGO Global Witness reveals that US food giant Cargill has directly purchased soy from farms in Bolivia where more than...

The three largest soy producers (by weight and production area) are Brazil, the US, and Argentina, who are jointly responsible for 80% of global soy production...

This report reviews the main global trends in land and water uses, policies and investments that have taken place over the last decade and identifies the institutional arrangements that have...

The growing demand for food, water and energy, in conjunction with climate change, puts pressure on land and freshwater resources. This problem can be acute in developing countries, where...

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2022-2031 provides a consensus-based assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels, and serves as a reference for forward-looking...

Highlight On international markets, prices of grains (wheat, maize) and vegetable oils (rapeseed, sunflower, soybean, palm) have been rising since mid-2020. Biofuels play a...

This paper discusses the possibility that today’s food price crisis, in the absence of urgent action, might turn into a fully-blown hunger crisis in many parts of the world, creating a situation...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted global wheat, corn, and other markets. Given relatively low global stocks for major staple foodstuffs, many analysts...

Total utilised agricultural area (UAA) is projected to slightly decline over the outlook period, to 160.5 million hectares in 2031. This reduction is due to lower yields making...