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An international report: the prices of agricultural commodities will not back down
2011-06-17 15:22:02
BAGHDAD (Iba) ..Most likely a new report issued partnership between the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO to be overwhelmingly high and volatile food prices in commodity markets.
He cited the report of the agricultural prospects of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that the 2011-2020 harvest of good in the coming months will pay the prices of agricultural commodities, down from levels seen in the acute earlier this year.
However, the outlook said that the next decade will see the real prices could rise at a rate of $ 20 percent for grains and an average of 30 percent for meat, compared with the average rates of the prices that prevailed during the past decade from 2001 to 2010.These estimates are lower than the maximum price levels that loomed within the period 2007 - 2008 and reappeared again this year.
The joint report highlighted that the higher prices of goods pass through the food supply chain, leads to consumer price inflation and escalation in more countries.This raises concerns for economic stability and food security in some developing countries, poor consumers are facing higher risks for the possibility of falling prey to malnutrition.
Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Angel Gurria, that even if the higher prices, such as generally good news for farmers, but its impact on poor developing countries, who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating.
He therefore ask the governments to improve information and transparency for both the physical markets and financial, to encourage investments that increase productivity in developing countries, and remove policies that distort production and trade, and help those vulnerable to risks in the management of the potential uncertainty better.
Said Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General of FAO for his part, that the volatility of the prices may remain the dominant feature of agricultural markets in the commercial context of the current markets, so there is a need for coherent policies to reduce price volatility and mitigate its negative effects.Noted Dr. Jacques Diouf said the ultimate solution to the problem is to strengthen investment in agriculture and promote rural development in developing countries, ie, where he lives 98 percent of the hungry world of today and is expected to increase the population by 47 percent during the coming decades.
The Director-General of the Organization of FAO that the actions must be focused primarily on small farmers in food deficit countries with low incomes.
And reinforce these expectations the content of the letter which refers to the instability of prices and the need to mitigate the effects of the expected, as reported in a recent meeting of the Group of Twenty Grand G20 (volatility of prices in the markets of food and agriculture: policy responses), Ktgarirmarod of the joint multi-agency, has to set up a partnership FAO by FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on behalf of the ten international organizations.
The report proposes inter alia to take the Group of Twenty major concrete steps to boost agricultural production in developing countries, and reduce or eliminate policies distorting trade, as well as the establishment of a new mechanism to improve information and transparency on agricultural production, consumption, stocks and trade.
The report predicts that covers the common fisheries for the first time, global growth to slow-growing sector in general in the next decade, while the rate of at least the past decade.The agricultural output is expected to rise by 1.7 percent annually, compared to 2.6 per annum growth rate of the past decade.Despite this Alnamwalabto, but the production per capita is still expected to rise by 0.7 percent annually.
And is expected to grow per capita consumption of food materials very quickly in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, where income levels will rise and slow population growth.The report predicts that the more concentrated the demand for meat and dairy products, vegetable oils and sugar.
The report forecasts that world production of fisheries will grow by 1.3 percent annually to 2020, comes as no growth during the past decade.This is mainly due to the stagnation of capture fisheries stocks and a slowdown in the growth of the aquaculture sector, which has seen a rapid expansion phase during the period 2001 to 2010.
By the year 2015 is expected to exceed the output of the aquaculture sector than that of the fisheries in the wild capture fisheries as the most important source for human consumption of fish.And up to 2020, the sector is expected to be about 45 percent of total world production of fish, including the GDP allocated for non-food uses. (End)
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2011-06-17 15:22:02
BAGHDAD (Iba) ..Most likely a new report issued partnership between the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO to be overwhelmingly high and volatile food prices in commodity markets.
He cited the report of the agricultural prospects of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that the 2011-2020 harvest of good in the coming months will pay the prices of agricultural commodities, down from levels seen in the acute earlier this year.
However, the outlook said that the next decade will see the real prices could rise at a rate of $ 20 percent for grains and an average of 30 percent for meat, compared with the average rates of the prices that prevailed during the past decade from 2001 to 2010.These estimates are lower than the maximum price levels that loomed within the period 2007 - 2008 and reappeared again this year.
The joint report highlighted that the higher prices of goods pass through the food supply chain, leads to consumer price inflation and escalation in more countries.This raises concerns for economic stability and food security in some developing countries, poor consumers are facing higher risks for the possibility of falling prey to malnutrition.
Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Angel Gurria, that even if the higher prices, such as generally good news for farmers, but its impact on poor developing countries, who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating.
He therefore ask the governments to improve information and transparency for both the physical markets and financial, to encourage investments that increase productivity in developing countries, and remove policies that distort production and trade, and help those vulnerable to risks in the management of the potential uncertainty better.
Said Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General of FAO for his part, that the volatility of the prices may remain the dominant feature of agricultural markets in the commercial context of the current markets, so there is a need for coherent policies to reduce price volatility and mitigate its negative effects.Noted Dr. Jacques Diouf said the ultimate solution to the problem is to strengthen investment in agriculture and promote rural development in developing countries, ie, where he lives 98 percent of the hungry world of today and is expected to increase the population by 47 percent during the coming decades.
The Director-General of the Organization of FAO that the actions must be focused primarily on small farmers in food deficit countries with low incomes.
And reinforce these expectations the content of the letter which refers to the instability of prices and the need to mitigate the effects of the expected, as reported in a recent meeting of the Group of Twenty Grand G20 (volatility of prices in the markets of food and agriculture: policy responses), Ktgarirmarod of the joint multi-agency, has to set up a partnership FAO by FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on behalf of the ten international organizations.
The report proposes inter alia to take the Group of Twenty major concrete steps to boost agricultural production in developing countries, and reduce or eliminate policies distorting trade, as well as the establishment of a new mechanism to improve information and transparency on agricultural production, consumption, stocks and trade.
The report predicts that covers the common fisheries for the first time, global growth to slow-growing sector in general in the next decade, while the rate of at least the past decade.The agricultural output is expected to rise by 1.7 percent annually, compared to 2.6 per annum growth rate of the past decade.Despite this Alnamwalabto, but the production per capita is still expected to rise by 0.7 percent annually.
And is expected to grow per capita consumption of food materials very quickly in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, where income levels will rise and slow population growth.The report predicts that the more concentrated the demand for meat and dairy products, vegetable oils and sugar.
The report forecasts that world production of fisheries will grow by 1.3 percent annually to 2020, comes as no growth during the past decade.This is mainly due to the stagnation of capture fisheries stocks and a slowdown in the growth of the aquaculture sector, which has seen a rapid expansion phase during the period 2001 to 2010.
By the year 2015 is expected to exceed the output of the aquaculture sector than that of the fisheries in the wild capture fisheries as the most important source for human consumption of fish.And up to 2020, the sector is expected to be about 45 percent of total world production of fish, including the GDP allocated for non-food uses. (End)
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