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 summarizes trends in futures markets, ocean freight rates, the global food import bill, and food price indices.

Meat (Market summary)

13/11/2025

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

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. Strong import demand, especially for bovine meat, continues to underpin international trade flows. At the same time, robust global demand, constrained export availabilities, and heightened market uncertainty have sustained upward pressure on meat prices worldwide.

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 5 (Meat)

15/07/2025

This chapter describes market developments and medium-term projections for world meat markets for the period 2025-34. Projections cover consumption, production, trade and prices for beef, pig meat, poultry, and sheep meat.

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.

Meat Price Index

02/01/2024

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.

Commodity Policy Developments Tool

10/04/2013

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.

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.