Biofuel Demand Hikes Agriculture Prices
July 6, 2007| |
World prices for many food products could increase due to greater demand for biofuels. Long term changes in markets are also due to reduced crop surpluses and a decline in export subsidies. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) set this scenario in OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2007-2016.
The growing use of cereals, sugar, oilseed and vegetables oils for ethanol and bio-diesel are changing crop prices and indirectly through higher animal feed costs and livestock products. In the US alone, annual maize-based ethanol output is expected to double between 2006 and 2016. Added to this are temporary factors like droughts in wheat-growing regions and low stocks accounting for the recent increases in farm commodity prices.
For more information, contact Erwin Northoff of FAO at Erwin.northoff@fao.org or visit
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000620/index.html.
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