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1. Countries and commodities classification
List of the developing countries of the study
| Africa, sub-Sahara | Latin America and Caribbean | Near East/North Africa | Asia |
| South Asia | Argentina | Afghanistan | South Asia |
| * Bolivia | Algeria | ||
| * Angola | * Brazil | Egypt | * Bangladesh |
| * Benin | Chile | Iran | * India |
| * Botswana | * Colombia | Iraq | * Nepal |
| * Burundi | * Costa Rica | Jordan | * Pakistan |
| * Cameroon | * Cuba | Lebanon | * Sri Lanka |
| * Central Afr. Rep. | * Dominican Rep. | Libya | |
| * Chad | * Ecuador | Morocco | |
| * Congo | * El Salvador | Saudi Arabia | East Asia |
| * Cote d'Ivoire | * Guatemala | Syria | |
| * Ethiopia (PDRt) | F Guyana | Tunisia | * Cambodia |
| Gabon | F Haiti | Turkey | China |
| * Ghana | * Honduras | Yemen | * Indonesia |
| * Guinea | * Jamaica | Korea, DPR | |
| * Kenya | * Mexico | Korea, Rep. | |
| Lesotho | * Nicaragua | * Laos | |
| * Liberia | * Panama | * Malaysia | |
| * Madagascar | F Paraguay | * Myanmar | |
| * Malawi | * Peru | * Philippines | |
| F Mali | * Suriname | * Thailand | |
| F Mauritania | * Trinidad and Tobago | * Vietnam | |
| * Mozambique | Uruguay | ||
| * Namibia | Venezuela | ||
| * Niger | |||
| * Nigeria | |||
| * Rwanda | |||
| * Senegal | |||
| * Sierra Leone | |||
| F Somalia | |||
| * Sudan | |||
| Swaziland | |||
| * Tanzania | |||
| * Togo | |||
| * Uganda | |||
| * Zaire | |||
| * Zambia | |||
| * Zimbabwe. |
List of the developed countries of the study
| EC | Other Western Europe | Eastern Europe and the former USSR |
| Belgium | Austria | Albania |
| Denmark | Finland | Bulgaria |
| France | Iceland | Former Czechoslovakia |
| Germany | Malta | Hungary |
| Greece | Norway | Poland |
| Ireland | Sweden | Romania |
| Italy | Switzerland | Former USSR |
| Luxembourg | Yugoslav SFR* | |
| Netherlands | ||
| Portugal | Other Developed Countries | |
| Spain | Oceania | |
| United Kingdom | Israel | |
| Australia | Japan | |
| New Zealand | South Africa | |
| North America | ||
| Canada | ||
| United States |
*Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
List of commodities of the study
| Crops | Crops | Livestock |
| Wheat | Bananas | Beef, veal and buffalo meat |
| Rice, paddy | Citrus fruit | Mutton, lamb and goat meat |
| Maize | Other fruit | |
| Barley | Vegetable oil and oilseeds (vegetable oil equivalent)** | Pig meat |
| Millet | Poultry meat | |
| Sorghum | Cocoa beans | Milk and dairy products (whole milk equivalent) |
| Other cereals | Coffee | |
| Potatoes | Tea | Eggs |
| Sweet potatoes and yams | Tobacco | |
| Cassava | Cotton lint | |
| Other roots | Jute and hard fibres | |
| Plantains | Rubber | |
| Sugar, raw* | ||
| Pulses | ||
| Vegetables |
* Sugar production in the developing countries (excl. China)
analysed separately for sugarcane and sugar beet.
** Vegetable oil production in the developing countries (excl.
China) analysed separately for soybeans, groundnuts, sesame seed,
coconuts, sunflower seed, palm oil/palm-kernel oil, all other
oilseeds.
Note on commodities
All commodity data and projections in this report are expressed in terms of primary product equivalent unless stated otherwise. Historical commodity balances (supply utilization accounts-SUAs) are available for about 160 primary and 160 processed crop and livestock commodities. To reduce this amount of information to manageable proportions, all the SUA data were converted to the commodity specification given in the list of commodities, applying appropriate conversion factors (and ignoring joint products to avoid double counting, e.g. wheat flour is converted back into wheat while wheat bran is ignored). In this way, one supply utilization account in homogeneous units is derived for each of the commodities of the study. Meat production refers to indigenous meat production, i.e. production from slaughtered animals plus the meat equivalent of live animal exports minus the meat equivalent of all live animal imports. Cereals demand and trade data include the grain equivalent of beer consumption and trade.
The commodities for which SUAs were constructed are the 26 crops and the 6 livestock products given in the list above. The production analysis for the developing countries (excl. China, see Chapter 4) was, however, carried out for 33 crops because sugar and vegetable oils are analysed separately (for production analysis only) for the 9 crops shown in the footnote to the list.