The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are jointly organizing the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook: Meeting of Collaborators (Ninth Session of the Group on Commodity Markets) to be held on 23 and 24 March 2017 in the German Room at FAO Headquarters. The Meeting will be held in English and French. 

The main purpose of the meeting will be to review the projections of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 and to discuss the underlying trends and drivers of agricultural markets. The CCP Secretariat herewith invites representations to attend and strongly encourage inputs into the discussion. In considering participation, please note that the meeting is primarily of a technical nature and non-OECD country representatives will be considered as part of the FAO delegation with observer status. 

The agenda and meeting documents are confidential and a login is required in order to access them. Members may send an e-mail, confirming their name and CCP member country affiliation in order to receive the login details to: [email protected]. While official registration is not required, it would be appreciated if confirmation of attendance could be sent to the same address. 

Any interested member that isn't able to attend the meeting may send inputs to [email protected]. Comments should be sent by Tuesday 28 March 2017.