John Beghin (),
Fengxia Dong,
Amani Elobeid,
Jacinto Fabiosa,
Frank Fuller,
Chad Hart (),
Karen Kovarik,
Simla Tokgoz,
Yu, Tun-Hsiang Edward,
Eric Wailes,
Ed Chavez,
Abner W. Womack,
William H. Meyers,
Julian Binfield,
D. Scott Brown,
John Kruse,
Daniel Madison,
Seth Meyer,
Patrick Westhoff and
Lori Wilcox
Abstract:
The FAPRI 2006 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy commitments under current trade agreements and custom unions. Despite continued high energy prices, world economic growth is expected to remain strong in the coming decade, above 3% per annum. Other major drivers of the 2006 baseline include new bio-energy policies in several large countries, EU sugar policy reform, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) shocks in livestock and poultry markets, and movements in the exchange rate.