Tag: FAO's Food Outlook report

• Friday, April 8th 2016 - 06:58 UTC

  Large inventories and sluggish demand for 2016/17 global cereal production predicts FAO

  

  World cereal production in 2016 is set to amount to 2 521 million tons, just 0.2% off last year's large output and the third-highest global performance on record, according to FAO's first forecast for the new season, released on Thursday. Large inventory levels and relatively sluggish global demand mean that market conditions for staple food grains appear stable for at least another season, the agency's latest Cereal Supply and Demand Brief predicts.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 06:13 UTC

  Bumper harvests and stockpiles driving down cereal prices, says FAO report

  

  Food markets are more stable and prices for most agricultural commodities are sharply lower than they have been in recent years, according to the latest edition of FAO's biannual Food Outlook report and a new update to the Organization's monthly Food Price Index.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 00:05 UTC

  Despite some setbacks, FAO expects second largest cereal production this year

  

  Weather conditions in various countries and political tensions in the Black Sea region have made food markets more volatile, FAO reports in the new Food Outlook. In its first major forecast for 2014, FAO puts cereal production at 2 458 million tons (including milled rice), down some 2.4% from the 2013 record, though global output is still expected to be the second largest ever.

• Saturday, November 9th 2013 - 17:55 UTC

  Food commodity markets more balances and less price volatile, says FAO

  

  Food commodity markets are becoming more balanced and less price volatile than in recent years thanks to improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals, according to FAO's Food Outlook report published on Friday.