Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets – June 2025

12/06/2025

FAO’s latest assessments indicate a relatively optimistic outlook for food commodity markets, with production and trade of all commodities, except sugar, anticipated to increase. However, this growth will have different impacts on stock recovery, influenced by the delicate balance between supply and demand. Global food commodity production remains vulnerable to weather conditions.

Milk and milk products (Market Summary)

12/06/2025

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

AMIS Market Monitor

01/01/2024

The AMIS Market Monitor provides a synopsis of major developments in international commodity markets, focusing on wheat, maize, rice and soybeans. The analysis is a collective assessment of the member organizations of AMIS concerning the international market situation and outlook. Published ten times a year, the report aims at improving market transparency and detecting emerging problems that might warrant the attention of policy makers.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034

15/07/2025

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 (FAO) of the United Nations. 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.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034 - Chapter 6 (Dairy and dairy products)

15/07/2025

This chapter describes market developments and medium-term projections for world dairy markets for the period 2025-34. Projections cover consumption, production, trade and prices for milk, fresh dairy products, butter, cheese, skim milk powder and whole milk powder.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025–2034 - Executive Summary

15/07/2025

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025–2034 provides an assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels. The report highlights how rising incomes and urbanization are increasing demand for animal-source foods in middle-income countries, while also offering insights into pathways for eliminating undernourishment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

FAO Food Price Index

02/02/2024

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities. It consists of the average of five commodity group price indices weighted by the average export shares of each of the groups over 2014-2016. A feature article published in the June 2020 edition of the Food Outlook presents the revision of the base period for the calculation of the FFPI and the expansion of its price coverage, to be introduced from July 2020.

Dairy Price Index

26/02/2024

Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Tool V4

02/01/2023

Movements in agricultural commodity and food prices are indicators of changes in the fundamentals of supply and demand. As such, their levels are indicative of market imbalances that, for example, can portend to worsening food security. The timely monitoring of prices is also important for assessing the functioning and efficiency of international and national markets. Transparent and timely market information is a basis for evidence-based decision making and food security strategies.

Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin

26/02/2024

This Bulletin is a revamped edition of the Global Food Price Monitor issued until December 2014. The Bulletin reports on recent food price developments at world, regional and country level with focus on developing countries. The full Bulletin is available in English and selected abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian.

Commodity Policy Developments Tool

10/04/2013

Review of basic food policies 2002

01/12/1999

This is the second issue of the Review of basic food policies, which covers policy developments in production, consumption marketing and trade of cereals, oilseeds and livestock products during the period 2001-2002. The policy information contained in the report is taken from country responses to FAO questionnaires and from publicly available sources.

Policies for basic food commodities 2003-2004

01/12/2006

This third staple food policy review indicates the main policy changes that took place in 2003 and 2004 in the areas of production, consumption, marketing and trade of grains, oilseeds and oil. breeding. The data come from questionnaires and from official and unofficial sources.