an international body charged with identifying appropriate actions coordinating responses and monitoring implementation of an information system would facilitate more transparent and consistent information disseminated on a timely and coordinated basis country requests to the two organisations for capacity building in the development of inhouse outlook and market analysis capabilities using the aglinkcosimo model have increased recently in response to the volatile market situation cooperation agreements are under development with brazil and china and india has expressed an interest in greater collaboration in the areas of agricultural outlook and food security