Crop Prospects and Food Situation #4, July 2007

Year of publication2007

AuthorFAO

PublisherFAO

AbstractFAO’s latest forecast for world cereal production in 2007 continues to point to a record output, now put at 2 121 million tonnes. The bulk of the increase is expected in maize but a sharp rise in wheat production and a larger rice crop would also contribute to the record harvest. The record 2007 world cereal production forecast is largely supported by the prospect of an all-time high maize harvest in the United States, where producers have planted the largest area since 1940, in response to strong demand from the biofuel industry. However, elsewhere among the main cereal producers in the developed country group, prospects for the 2007 harvest have deteriorated significantly in Europe after drought set-in in south-eastern parts of the region. For the LIFDCs as a group, after four successive successive years of relatively strong years of relatively strong years of relatively strong growth, cereal production in 2007 is forecast to increase by just 1.2 percent from 2006, which is below the rate of population growth. If the largest producers China and India are excluded, the aggregate cereal output of the rest of LIFDCs is forecast to decline slightly from last year.

 

Product typeBook (stand-alone)

SeriesCrop Prospects and Food Situation

RegionGlobal

ISSN2707-2231

Areas of workGlobal Information and Early Warning System

KeywordsFood crops; crop monitoring; crop production; food supply; food security; conflicts; pandemics; early warning systems