GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Agricultural Outlook has been prepared as a joint report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The report provides a ten year forward looking, assessment of trends and prospects in the major temperate-zone agricultural commodity markets of biofuels, cereals, oilseeds and oilseed products, sugar, meat, fish and sea food, dairy products, cotton. It is published annually, in the middle of the second quarter, as part of a continuing effort to promote informed discussion of emerging market and policy issues. The data used to develop the projections underlying the assessment are those available as of January 2018.

The projections and assessments provided in the report are the result of close co-operation between the OECD and FAO Secretariats and national experts with a jointly developed modelling system, based on the AGLINK-COSIMO model, used to facilitate consistency in the projections. The data series for the projections are drawn from OECD and FAO databases. For the most part information in these databases has been taken from national statistical sources. For further details on particular series, enquiries should be directed to the OECD and FAO Secretariats-

Generally for the period 1990-2028, the following countries/regions are covered : Canada, United States, European Union (Refers to all current European Union member States except the United Kingdom), United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, China, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam as well as a number of aggregate regions: Other West Europe, Other East Europe, Asia, Africa , Latin America, OECD, Least developed countries, BRICS, Developing excluding LDC and World totals