Agriculture & Softs Reports
Agriculture Leads Index Gains in January
London, 3 February 2011
Led by strength in agriculture, the S&P GSCI increased 3.05% in January as the background of tight global supplies and strong demand was augmented by political that sparked fears over hoarding agricultural products. The S&P GSCI Agriculture Index increased 5.89% on the back of strong rallies in wheat, cotton and corn.
Ag price poll shows analyst outlook divided
Chicago, 31 January 2011
The main take away from the 2011 Reuters grain market poll is that relatively high crop prices look here to stay. But the poll also reveals startling variation in crop price projections among the analysts surveyed, which either suggests that high price volatility may be in store on all fronts, or that U.S. grain market forecasters simply don't know what these markets are going to do.
Business leaders launch strategy to boost global food security
Davos, 29 January 2011
The “New Vision for Agriculture” aims to simultaneously improve food security, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity: A coalition of business, governments and farmers today launched a strategy to significantly increase food production while conserving environmental resources and spurring economic growth. The approach is already being implemented in two countries, Tanzania and Vietnam. Led by 17 global companies, the strategy sets ambitious targets for collective action to increase production by 20%, decrease greenhouse gas emissions per tonne by 20%, and reduce rural poverty by 20% each decade.
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High food prices may be necessary evil
Chicago, 26 January 2010
Violent protests in Tunisia and Algeria this month announced that food inflation has reared its ugly head again. But, while rising food prices may be universally unwelcome, especially in low-income regions, they may be a necessary evil if global food production is to rise to the sustainably high levels required to feed the planet's growing population.
FAO: Policy guide for countries hit hard by high food prices
Rome, January 2011
FAO has called upon countries to carefully examine the implications of high food prices and not to take any policy actions that might appear useful in the short term but could have harmful, longer-term effects or even aggravate the situation.
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Taking the Scare out of Scarcity: Report
London, January 2011
NEW BOOK: The Limits To Scarcity: Contesting the politics of allocation: How the doom-mongers at Davos serve only to keep poor people poor.
Food prices: Tackle volatility with better functioning markets
London, 25 January 2011
Surging food and commodity prices are undermining efforts to tackle global poverty and hunger and threaten economic growth, said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. Welcoming the French government’s decision to make commodity price volatility and global food security priority issues of its G20 presidency, Mr Gurría said: “Agriculture markets have always been volatile, but if governments act together then extreme price swings can be mitigated and vulnerable consumers and producers better protected.”
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Macquarie Agri-View: Key risks for 2011
London, 20 December 2010
Macquarie's next detailed quarterly outlook, where they offer two-year forecasts for each of the agri markets, is scheduled for late-January 2011. But ahead of that Macquarie thought it would be useful to highlight some of the key risks facing each of the commodities next year. In this report, Macquarie provide in an easy-to-view table their base case view (which remains overwhelmingly bullish across the agricultural space for much of 2011), followed by another table that highlights the main risks – both bullish and bearish – for each commodity that could derail this view in the year ahead.
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Vietnam's crop high in coffee conference agenda
Hanoi, 3 December 2010
Coffee traders, policymakers and lenders will be on alert for data about Vietnamese bean shipments and quality at a conference next week as concern spreads that bad weather in the country's robusta heartland could jack up prices.
Forest Products Market Update
London, October 2010
Global trade of softwood logs has increased in 2010 after having fallen 30% in two years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly Higher worldwide demand for forest products has increased global shipments of softwood logs by 20 percent in 2010, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. This year may be a turning point for global log trade, which had fallen 30 percent between 2007 and 2009, according to the Wood Resources International LLC.
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