Countries and commodities covered |
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Developing countries |
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Africa, sub-Saharan |
Latin America and Caribbean |
Near East and North Africa |
South Asia |
East Asia |
Angola |
Argentina |
Afghanistan |
Bangladesh |
Cambodia |
1 Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tomé and Principe, Seychelles. |
Industrial countries |
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European Union1 |
Other Western Europe |
North America |
Oceania |
Other |
Austria |
Iceland |
Canada |
Australia |
Israel |
1 In the analysis the European Union was treated as one country group (EU-15). |
Transition countries |
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Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia SFR |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
Baltic States |
Albania |
Armenia |
Estonia |
Commodities |
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Crops |
Livestock |
Wheat |
Beef, veal and buffalo meat |
1 Sugar production in the developing countries was analysed separately for sugar cane and sugar beet. |
Note
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 170 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 above 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 SUA 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 6 livestock products given in the list above. The production analysis for the developing countries was, however, carried out for 34 crops because sugar and vegetable oils were analysed separately (for production analysis only) for the 10 crops shown in the footnote to the list.