OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2001 [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
The seventh edition of the OECD Agricultural Outlook analyses how both global and domestic forces are impacting on the agricultural sector and shaping world and OECD agricultural markets up to 2006. Market fundamentals suggest that the low point of international price cycle has now been reached. This book provides the reader with valuable information on market trends and medium term prospects for the main agricultural products, shows how these are influenced by government policies, and highlights some of the risks and uncertainties that may influence the outlook. Tables provide detailed commod
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""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Agricultural Commodity Database""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""The Outlook in Brief""; ""Overview""; ""Market characteristics change as the recovery begins""; ""Figure 1.  Outlook for world prices to 2006""; ""Figure 2.  OECD exports""; ""The policy outlook is challenging""; ""Emerging issues moving up the policy agenda""; ""Uncertainties that cloud the picture""; ""Opportunity for further reform""; ""Notes""; ""Economic and Policy Assumptions  ""; ""Key economic assumptions""; ""Key policy assumptions""; ""Other assumptions""
""Review of the economic assumptions""""Favourable macroeconomic context""; ""Table 1.  Where population and income will grow""; ""Figure 3.  GDP growth projections for OECD countries""; ""Good growth prospects in major non-OECD markets""; ""Impact of oil price surge expected to be modest""; ""Exchange rate instability remains a key factor""; ""Figure 4.  Nominal exchange rate projections""; ""Review of the policy assumptions""; ""Little detail is known of forthcoming agricultural policy reforms""; ""The WTO timetable bars impacts of further trade policy reforms on the Outlook""
""Market institutions will evolve, but how? And does it really matter for projections?""""Policy challenges""; ""Box 1.  A selection of future policy events""; ""Food security""; ""Sustainable development""; ""Food safety""; ""Box 2.  Labelling of foods derived from modern biotechnology""; ""Table 2.  Legislation for labelling of foods derived from modern biotechnology""; ""Notes""; ""Cereals  ""; ""Key commodity assumptions""; ""Main projections""; ""Key issues""; ""Outlook in brief""; ""Figure 5.  Strengthening demand to increase prices moderately""
""External factors will have to be watched""""World market trends and prospects""; ""Larger world cereal production""; ""Changing agricultural support policies affecting production responses""; ""Box 3.  A preliminary examination of US area payments and their effects on the Outlook""; ""Table 3.  US Area Payments â€? actual levels and assumed levels in the Outlook""; ""Table 4.  Assuming USD one billion more area payments in 2001""; ""Yields to increase more than area for Australian crops""; ""Chinese coarse grain output will rise""; ""But NIS recovery will remain slow""
""Faster growth in Latin America""""Consumption growth to accelerate""; ""Most demand growth expected in developing countries""; ""Figure 6.  Per capita consumption of wheat to stabilise in OECD""; ""Demand growth will be widespread""; ""Figure 7.  Increasing net cereal imports of developing countries""; ""URAA has little impact on â€œthinâ€? rice trade""; ""EU wheat exports to increase most""; ""Figure 8.  European Union will export cereals without subsidies""; ""US coarse grain shipments rise sharply too""; ""MERCOSUR will continue to shape Argentine trade growth""
""Tighter stocks to lift prices â€? gradually""
The seventh edition of the OECD Agricultural Outlook analyses how both global and domestic forces are impacting on the agricultural sector and shaping world and OECD agricultural markets up to 2006. Market fundamentals suggest that the low point of international price cycle has now been reached. This book provides the reader with valuable information on market trends and medium term prospects for the main agricultural products, shows how these are influenced by government policies, and highlights some of the risks and uncertainties that may influence the outlook. Tables provide detailed commod
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