Annex

TABLE 1
Number of farms raising major meat-producing species in Canada and Denmark

	1970/71	1980/81	1990/91	2000/01	Percent change per year¹
Canada²
Chickens³		55 017	24 305	10 875	-4.0
Pigs		55 765	29 592	15 472	-3.6
Cattle/calves		185 073	145 747	122 066	-1.7
Sheep		12 905	13 114	13 232	0.1
Denmark⁴
Chickens	68 900	27 569	13 764	5 676	-3.1
Pigs	120 370	67 708	29 903	13 231	-3.0
Cattle Sheep	103 465 4 835	61 310 4 182	36 432 6 266	23 031 3 241	-2.6

¹ Percent change per year is calculated as the decline per year (number of farms in the first year, minus number in the final year, divided by number of years), expressed as a percentage of the number of farms in the first year of the data set.

² Source: Statistics Canada, 2005.

³ Broiler chickens and Cornish hens.

⁴ Source: Danmarks Statistik, 2004. Chapter 10: Livestock, Table 10.2: Livestock holdings at structural surveys.

TABLE 2
World production, world exports and percentage exported of four categories of meat, 1961 - 2001

Source of meat	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001
World production (1 000 tonnes/year)
Poultry meat	8 911	15 657	27 386	42 939	71 414
Pig meat	24 702	39 345	52 903	71 784	92 071
Bovine meat	28 737	39 386	47 581	56 278	59 149
Mutton/goat meat	6 026	6 934	7 585	9 811	11 449
World exports (1 000 tonnes/year)
Poultry meat	303	594	1 900	2 923	9 359
Pig meat	1 092	2 025	2 788	4 618	7 752
Bovine meat	1 658	2 886	4 692	6 940	7 431
Mutton/goat meat	487	715	940	848	874
Percentage exported
Poultry meat	3.4	3.8	6.9	6.8	13.1
Pig meat	4.4	5.1	5.3	6.4	8.4
Bovine meat	5.8	7.3	9.9	12.3	12.6
Mutton/goat meat	8.1	10.3	12.4	8.6	7.6

Source: FAO, 2004a.

TABLE 3
Historical data on profi t from three types of animal production in the United States of America

Year	Eggs: net returns¹ (US$0.01/dozen)	Chicken: net returns¹ (US$0.01/kg)	Pigs: profit from farrow-to-finish operations² (US$1/head)
1967		-1.1
1968		4.0
1969		6.4
Decade		3.1
1970		-1.1
1971		-0.7
1972	-2.8	-0.2
1973	6.2	5.7
1974	-0.4	-4.4	1.46
1975	1.0	12.8	34.53
1976	10.0	2.0	23.89
1977	3.8	0.9	16.70
1978	1.7	9.7	36.33
1979	3.1	-2.4	13.85
Decade	2.8	2.2	21.13
1980	-3.5	-3.3	-4.13
1981	0.4	-11.9	-5.03
1982	3.8	-6.2	28.96
1983	3.3	-3.7	-0.65
1984	8.9	10.3	-2.24
1985	1.2	13.4	-0.20
1986	7.0	27.9	23.36
1987	0.2	4.4	34.29
1988	-5.0	12.3	0.55
1989	15.2	15.8	-3.88
Decade	3.2	5.9	7.10
1990	16.7	12.1	29.92
1991	12.8	6.6	21.99
1992	1.7	7.3	3.83
1993	8.6	14.1	12.71
1994	3.5	12.8	-8.28
1995	8.8	16.6	0.87
1996	13.1	11.9	9.99
1997	11.6	12.8	13.61
1998	13.1	31.5	-27.98
1999	5.9	26.0	-17.29
Decade	9.6	15.1	3.94
2000	9.0	20.2	11.89
2001	6.7	25.7	13.67
2002	4.4	17.2	-16.21
2003			-6.34
2004			22.55
Decade	6.7	21.0	5.11

¹ Source: USDA, 2004. Table 050, Eggs: net returns, and Table 091, Young chicken: net returns (converted from cents per pound).

² Source: John D. Lawrence, Iowa State University.

TABLE 4
Supply of four types of meat in developing countries, developed countries and the world, 1961 - 2001

Source of meat	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001
	(kg/person/year)
Poultry meat
Developing countries	1.0	1.5	2.7	4.2	7.8
Developed countries	6.7	10.5	15.3	20.1	24.3
World	2.9	4.1	6.0	8.0	11.3
Pig meat
Developing countries	2.1	4.0	5.6	8.4	11.4
Developed countries	20.5	25.3	28.8	29.1	28.0
World	8.0	10.2	11.6	13.3	15.0
Bovine meat
Developing countries	4.3	4.0	4.7	5.1	6.1
Developed countries	19.9	26.1	26.6	27.0	21.4
World	9.3	10.4	10.4	10.3	9.4
Mutton and goat
Developing countries	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.5	1.7
Developed countries	3.5	3.4	2.7	2.8	2.0
World	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.8	1.8
Total of the four
Developing countries	8.6	10.7	14.3	19.2	27.0
Developed countries	50.6	65.2	74.4	79.0	75.7
World	22.1	26.5	29.6	33.4	37.5

Source (including division of developed and developing countries): FAO, 2004b.