The FAO Rice Price Update
The FAO Rice Price Update provides monthly rice export prices from major origins and is released monthly.
The FAO Rice Market Monitor
The FAO Rice Market Monitor provides an analysis of the most recent developments in the global rice market, including a short-term outlook. Presently, the full document is available only in English but highlights are available in Spanish and French.
Outlook and review of sectoral policy changes
The latest market assessments and short-term forecasts for rice are presented in:
Extraordinary Intersessional Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group (IGG) on Grains and the IGG on Rice (Rome, Italy, 24 September 2010).
A one-day extraordinary intersessional meeting of the IGG on Grains and the IGG on Rice was held ... (read more...)
International Year of Rice 2004
To celebrate the International Year of Rice 2004 FAO convened a global Rice Conference at its Rome headquarters on 12-13 February 2004.
Rice Policies: 2003-2004
The international scene has been dominated since 2000 by discussions over the modalities that will govern the process of liberalization of agriculture in the forthcoming WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Meanwhile, developing countries were still implementing the commitments taken under the Uruguay Round agreement, a process due for completion by end-2004. A number of governments, however, went beyond such commitments and moved forward to further align their national rice policies along the basic WTO principles, by increasingly shifting support to the rice sector away from market distorting measures (classified as amber box), towards production controlled (classified as blue box) and minimally trade-distorting (classified as green box) measures.
