International food commodity price trends reflect broadly abundant global supplies and intensifying exporter competition

Report also analyzes olive oil market, fertilizer trends, and the global food import bill

This World Cotton Day, discover the vital role of the cotton sector in fostering international trade and inclusive economic growth.

New edition examines market trends over the coming decade, with focus on mitigating emissions and boosting food security for the world’s poorest

Noting risks, report examines impacts of avian influenza, changing trade patterns since 2022, fish fraud, and shipping industry’s net-zero goals

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2024 looks at global trade flows of nutrients and possible obesity drivers

FLAGSHIP PUBLICATION
Trade and nutrition: policy coherence for healthy diets

FAO's Markets and Trade Division (EST), with its expertise on world agricultural trade, provides analytical and policy information to the United Nations (UN) community, global stakeholders, and beyond. EST keeps a comprehensive market intelligence service of the main agricultural commodities, and houses the Secretariats of the  Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP), the Intergovernmental Commodity Groups (IGGs), and the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS).  EST also manages early warnings of food shortfalls. 

Global commodity markets

monitors major agricultural commodities, including basic foodstuffs, tropical products and raw materials.  

Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS)

is the leading source of information on world food production and food security, and it monitors world supply of and demand for basic food. 

Trade policy & partnerships

promotes transparent, efficient agricultural commodity markets and trade by supporting its members, including facilitating multistakeholder partnerships. 

Emerging trends, challenges and opportunities

produces multidisciplinary analyses related to agricultural trade and markets, and guidance for responsible value chains.  


Featured publications

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The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets presents commodity market issues in an objective and accessible way to policy-makers, commodity market observers and stakeholders interested in agricultural commodity market developments and their impacts on countries at different levels of economic development.

 

  

The Food Outlook is a biannual publication, focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets. It provides comprehensive assessments and short-term forecasts for production, utilization, trade, stocks and prices on a commodity-by-commodity basis, along with feature articles on topical issues.

 

 
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034
The Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets.

 

 

The Crop Prospects and Food Situation (CPFS) report, published three times per year, provides a forward-looking analysis of regional food situations, focusing on cereal production, price trends, and food security conditions, with a particular focus on Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCs). The report includes a global overview of cereal supply and demand conditions, complementing the analysis presented in the biannual FAO Food Outlook publication. The CPFS report is accompanied by the Cereal supply and demand balances for sub-Saharan African countries, released on the same date. 

 


Latest publications

Journal; magazine; bulletin
Meat Market Review. Emerging trends and outlook in 2025
01/12/2025

The review finds that global meat production is projected to rise in 2025, driven primarily by poultry output expansion supported by lower feed costs....

Journal; magazine; bulletin
Oilseeds, Oils and Meals. Monthly price update No. 196, November 2025
27/11/2025

The Monthly Price Update is an information product provided by the oilseeds desk of the Markets and Trade Division of FAO. It reviews the development...

Newsletter
GIEWS Special Alert No. 353 - The Federal Republic of Somalia, 24 November 2025
24/11/2025

Drought conditions in the country's southern key cereal producing areas during October and the first half of November 2025 have negatively impacted...

Journal; magazine; bulletin
Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin #9, 14 November 2025 - Monthly report on food price trends
14/11/2025

World maize prices stabilized in October 2025, amid ample supplies, tempered by US yield concerns and China-US trade developments. At the same time,...

Book (stand-alone)
Wheat (Market Summary)
13/11/2025

This report provides an analysis of the most recent developments in the global wheat market, including a short-term outlook.

Book (stand-alone)
Fertilizer market developments
13/11/2025

Fertilizer production rebounded in 2024 and 2025, led by nitrogen and potassium, while prices rose on high energy costs but remain below 2022 peaks....

Book (stand-alone)
Coarse Grains (Market Summary)
13/11/2025

This report provides an analysis of the most recent developments in the global coarse grains market, including a short-term outlook.

Book (stand-alone)
Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets - November 2025
13/11/2025

The November 2025 edition provides an update on the fertilizer market and recent developments in olive oil markets. The overview of market indicators...

Book (stand-alone)
Cereals (Market Summary)
13/11/2025

This report provides an analysis of the most recent developments in the global cereals market, including a short-term outlook.

Book (stand-alone)
Sugar (Market summary)
13/11/2025

This report provides an analysis of the most recent developments in the global sugar market, including a short-term outlook.

Special committees



Videos

07/10/2025

For this World Cotton Day, celebrated on 7 October 2025, FAO partnered with Nigerien African fashion designer Alphadi and the Roman fashion institute – Accademia di Costume e Moda – to celebrate African cotton and fashion. Cotton, World Cotton Day, African cotton, Africa, fashion, African fashion, cotton-producing countries, Alphadi, Accademia di Costume e Moda, Cotton value chain

06/10/2025

Farmed, weaved and brought to us in diverse forms, cotton is the world's most widely used natural fibre.


Online database applications

FPMA

Food Price Monitoring and Analysis

AMIS

Agricultural Market Information System

Upcoming events

4/12

2025

Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (Italy), Hybrid Event, 04/12/2025

Join us on 4 December 2025 from 12:30 to 14:00 for the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF) 2026, live from FAO Headquarters in Rome and online. Held during the 179th Session of the FAO Council, the event will officially launch the Year and set the stage for global action.

Latest news
05/12/2025
Rome – World food commodity prices declined in November, led by lower international quotations for all major staple foods except cereals, according to the benchmark measure released Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
14/10/2025
Trade and the environment are deeply interconnected. On one hand, open markets improve efficiency in resource use and expand access to cleaner technologies that make domestic production processes more sustainable.

Related websites

Related links
Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP)