Pour soutenir l’application pratique du Guide OCDE-FAO, au début de 2018, l’OCDE et la FAO ont lancé un projet pilote de mise en œuvre avec plus de trente entreprises et initiatives industrielles. Ce rapport final présente les principales conclusions du projet pilote. Il résume les leçons apprises, les bonnes pratiques et les défis dans la mise en œuvre de la diligence raisonnable de la chaîne d’approvisionnement identifiés par les participants...

An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) conducted an analysis from 7 to 16 December 2020 to estimate the cereal production in South Sudan during 2020, based on a review of data and information collected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS). The Mission also reviewed secondary data from a variety of sources in order to produce an overview of the overall food security situation in...

International cereal prices followed mixed trends in April. Prices of maize increased mostly on tightening supplies, but those of wheat remained steady due to generally adequate export availabilities. By contrast, international prices of barley and sorghum fell slightly, while those of rice declined further on currency movements and slow trading activities. In East Africa, prices of coarse grains in the Sudan and South Sudan remained at near-record to record levels,...

Measures adopted around the world to contain the COVID-19 outbreak helped curb the spread of the virus and lowered the pressure on health systems. However, they also affected the global trading system, and the supply and demand of agricultural and food products. In response to concerns over food security and food safety worldwide, many countries reacted immediately to apply policy measures aiming to limit potentially adverse impacts on domestic markets....

El compendio de 2020 ofrece un panorama general de las principales políticas gubernamentales y las medidas conexas del sector privado relativas a los mercados mundiales y nacionales de cultivos oleaginosos y productos derivados. Su finalidad es facilitar la labor de los responsables de las políticas, los expertos en mercados, los analistas y otras partes interesadas, proporcionando una visión general breve y concisa de las novedades en materia de políticas pertinentes...

The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 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. The publication...