The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 was prepared by a multidisciplinary team from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the direction of Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo, Deputy Director of the Agrifood Economics Division, and Andrea Cattaneo, Senior Economist and Editor of the publication. Overall guidance was provided by Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, and the management team of the Economic and Social Development stream.
RESEARCH AND WRITING TEAM
Theresa McMenomy, Fergus Mulligan (consulting editor), Ahmad Sadiddin, Jakob Skøt and Sara Vaz.
BACKGROUND PAPERS
Christina Cappello (Wageningen University & Research [WUR]), Tomaso Ceccarelli (WUR), Aneesh Chauhan (WUR), Diane Charlton (Montana State University), Thoman Daum (University of Hohenheim), Alexandra Hill (Colorado State University), Sander Janssen (WUR), Inder Kumar (WUR), James Lowenberg-DeBoer (Harper Adams University), Mariette McCampbell (WUR), Giacomo Rambaldi (WUR), David Rose (University of Reading) and Edward Taylor (University of California).
ADDITIONAL EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Rabe Yahaya (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center – CIMMYT).
ADDITIONAL FAO INPUTS
Veronica Boero, Alban Lika, Madhusudan Singh Basnyat, Atef Swelam and Michele Vollaro.
FAO ADVISORY GROUP
Maysoon Alzoubi, Huda Alsahi, Marwan Benali, Henry Burgsteden, Aziz Elbehri, Mayling Flores Rojas, Ken Lohento, Magnus Grylle, Karim Houmy, Dejan Jakov Ijevic, Josef Kienzle, Lan Li, Preetmoninder Lidder, Joseph Mpagalile, Ahmad Mukhtar, Eva Galvez Nogales, Santiago Santos Valle, Beate Scherf, Josef Schmidhuber and Xinhua Yuan.
PANEL OF EXTERNAL EXPERTS
Imran Ali (CQ University), Christina Cappello (WUR), Tomaso Ceccarelli (WUR), Aneesh Chauhan (WUR), Diane Charlton (Montana State University), Thomas Daum (University of Hohenheim), Kit Franklin (Harper Adams University), Alexandra Hill (Colorado State University), Ivo Hostens (European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association), Sander Janssen (WUR), Inder Kumar (WUR), James Lowenberg-DeBoer (Harper Adams University), Mariette McCampbell (WUR), Giacomo Rambaldi (WUR), David Rose (University of Reading), Salah Sukkarieh (University of Sydney) and Edward Taylor (University of California).
ANNEXES
Ahmad Sadiddin and Sara Vaz prepared the annexes with assistance from the WUR team: Christina Cappello, Tomaso Ceccarelli, Aneesh Chauhan, Sander Janssen, Inder Kumar, Mariette McCampbell and Giacomo Rambaldi.
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Liliana Maldonado provided administrative support.
Translations were delivered by the Language Branch (CSGL) of the FAO Governing Bodies Servicing Division (CSG).
The Publications Branch (OCCP) in FAO’s Office of Communications (OCC) provided editorial support, design and layout, as well as production coordination, for editions in all six official languages.
