The outlook for world meat supply and demand

This paper presents a medium-term outlook for world meat supply and demand. Following a broad outline of likely developments in production and consumption of all meats, the focus engages on the outlook for world beef markets over the five-year period from 1997. The projections presented in this paper are based largely on those published by the OECD.(1) So far as non-OECD countries are concerned, the main sources of information have been the Economic Research Service of the US Department for Agriculture(2) and the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute of the Universities of Iowa State and Missouri, Columbia.(3)