Food Outlook: Biannual Report on Global Food Markets: November 2018
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An additional feature article analyses the recent conditions in the global markets for bananas and major tropical fruits, where world trade is foreseen to surge by 18 percent from last year.
The outlook for global supplies of agricultural commodities in the 2018/19 marketing season remains broadly in line with earlier expectations. While the weather had some impact on crop prospects, the overall production at global level did not change significantly from the forecasts published in the July issue of Food Outlook. Beyond weather-induced revisions, the latest FAO revisions take into consideration the mounting uncertainties regarding trade policies, as well as the changes in exchange rates and rising energy prices.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
An intergovernmental organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.Founded in 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO provides a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The Organization publishes authoritative publications on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition.
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Food Outlook - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
WHEAT
The global wheat supply and demand balance is forecast to tighten in 2018/19, as evidenced by firmer international prices compared to the previous season. The forecast for global wheat production in 2018 has been revised downwards in recent months, and is now pegged at 727.9 million tonnes, 4.3 percent decline from the 2017 record level. The EU, the Russian Federation, China and Australia account for much of the year-on-year contraction. They are also behind the recent lowering in the global production outlook, while prospects improved in North and South America.
Total wheat utilization is expected to increase only marginally in 2018/19, with the global growth in wheat feed use affected by lower intakes in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, mostly due to reduced domestic supplies and less attractive prices. However, global wheat use for food consumption is seen increasing by 1.0 percent, which should result in a relatively stable average per caput level.
With world production forecast to fall below overall utilization, global wheat inventories in 2019 are anticipated to register a 4.5 percent decline from their record high opening level. The drawdown is expected to be concentrated among the major exporters, in particular the Russian Federation, the EU and the US, more than offsetting significant buildups expected in China and, to a lesser extent, in India. Consequently, the ratio of major wheat exporters’ closing stocks to their total disappearance (defined as domestic utilization plus exports) – a measure of global market availabilities – is set to fall to a five-year low of 16.3 percent.
Contrary to earlier predictions, world wheat trade is now forecast to contract in 2018/19 (July/June), albeit from the record levels achieved in the past two seasons. Among importers, Algeria, India and South Africa are anticipated to curb their wheat purchases in the wake of larger domestic harvests. As for exports, shipments from the Russian Federation are set to contract, reflecting a fall in domestic production. Similarly, wheat exports from Australia, the EU and Ukraine are anticipated to decline, which would more than counter a notable rebound of foreign sales by the United States, as well as bigger shipments from Argentina and Canada.
For additional analyses and updates, see:
FAO Cereal Supply and Demand Brief at
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation
Crop Prospects and Food Situation at
http://www.fao.org/giews/reports/crop-prospects
AMIS Market Monitor at
http://www.amis-outlook.org/amis-monitoring
Contact:
Abdolreza.Abbassian@fao.org
Jonathan.Pound@fao.org (Production)
COARSE GRAINS
Although the global market of coarse grains, as a whole, is set to tighten considerably in 2018/19, the overall supply prospects remain adequate, thanks to record high stocks carried over from the previous season.
Coarse grain production in 2018 is forecast to drop 2.2 percent from last year, driven predominantly by weather-reduced maize outputs in a number of countries and a contraction in the world barley production to a six-year low. However, compared with earlier expectations, the production outlooks for the various coarse grains have improved considerably, as favorable weather in Asia and the United States pushed up yields.
Despite lower availabilities, global utilization of coarse grains is expected to peak in 2018/19, rising faster than earlier anticipated – by 2.2 percent year-on-year. Robust demand for feed and industrial use in China and the United States are foreseen to push up world maize utilization to a new high. Tightening supplies of barley, sorghum and feed wheat have also contributed to the anticipated rapid expansion in maize use.
Total inventories of coarse grains are forecast to fall in 2018/19, marking the first decline since 2012/13. Maize would account for the bulk of the contraction, much of which is seen to be concentrated in major exporting countries and also in China, consistent with the country’s maize destocking policy. Given the expected fall in world inventories and the increase in total utilization, the world coarse grains stocks-to-use ratio as well as the major exporters’ stocks-to-disappearance (defined as domestic consumption plus exports) ratio should drop to five-year lows of 22.3 percent and 12.5 percent, respectively.
World trade in coarse grains in 2018/19 (July/June) is still forecast to remain close to the 2017/18 record level, underpinned by an anticipated rise in maize trade, offsetting a decline in sorghum. While on the supply side larger maize exports from the United States, Argentina and Ukraine would more than compensate for falling sales by Brazil and the Russian Federation, on the demand side the EU is expected to remain the largest destination for maize in 2018/19. This season’s tightening global supplies and strong import demand have pushed up international prices of the major coarse grains above their levels in the corresponding period last year.
For additional analyses and updates, see:
FAO Cereal Supply and Demand Brief at
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation
Crop Prospects and Food Situation at
http://www.fao.org/giews/reports/crop-prospects
AMIS Market Monitor at
http://www.amis-outlook.org/amis-monitoring
Contact:
Abdolreza.Abbassian@fao.org
Jonathan.Pound@fao.org (Production)
RICE
World rice production is forecast to expand by 1.3 percent in 2018 to reach a new record high. India is predicted to spearhead this growth, due to generally adequate monsoon rains and higher minimum support prices. Sizeable expansions are also expected in Bangladesh, Madagascar,