Commodity Market Review 2007-2008
The biennial publication Commodity Market Review (CMR) analyses important agricultural commodity market developments likely to have significant implications for FAO member countries, both developed and developing. This issue of the Review is devoted to exploring in depth a variety of issues related to global agricultural commodity value chains. Value chains have become more complex as production and processing activities turn out to be increasingly fragmented. Moreover, concentration and the prospective of market power, as well as the emergent scope of food standards add to this complexity. This issue includes articles that focus on both cross-commodity issues, such as strategic trade, foreign direct investment and the effectiveness of technical regulation, as well as on characteristics of individual commodity value chains, such as coffee, cocoa and frozen concentrated orange juice, which are of particular interest in terms of industrial organization. [ more... ]

Commodity Market Review 2005-2006
The biennial publication Commodity Market Review (CMR) analyses important agricultural commodity market developments likely to have significant implications for FAO member countries, both developed and developing. This issue of the Review addresses particularly one of the problem areas in the current Doha Round of trade negotiations, the special treatment sought by some countries for the so-called sensitive and special agricultural products. It includes articles which deal with cross-commodity issues, such as criteria for special products and appropriate rules for special safeguards, and with particularities of individual commodities, such as rice, sugar, dairy and others that are regarded as sensitive or special for particular countries. [ more... ]

Commodity Market Review 2003-2004
The present issue of the Commodity Market Review (CMR) marks a significant departure from past issues of the same named FAO publication. In the past the main focus of the CMR was a review of developments in agricultural commodity markets, a description of the current situation, and a short term outlook for these commodities. The CMR 2001-2002 departed somewhat from this format, by including some short analytical articles that tried to explain in more detail the factors that shape commodity market developments. [ more... ]

Commodity Market Review 2001-2002
This edition includes five analytical articles which look beyond the current situation and outlook to explain in more detail and explain some of the implications of factors which shape commodity market developments and topical policy issues. [ more... ]