The Food Outlook report is a product of the FAO Markets and Trade Division. This report was prepared under the overall guidance of Boubaker Ben-Belhassen, Director and Abdolreza Abbassian, Senior Economist. It is written by a team of economists, whose names appear under their respective market summary contributions. The report benefited from research support by many staff, namely, David Bedford, Harout Dekermendjian, Alice Fortuna, Grace Maria Karumathy, Lavinia Lucarelli, Emanuele Marocco, Marco Milo, Fabio Palmeri, and the fisheries statistical team.

Special thanks go to David Bedford and Lavinia Lucarelli for preparing the charts and statistical tables and to Valentina Banti for her administrative support. Additionally, the team is grateful to Ettore Vecchione for the desktop publishing and to Clare Pedrick for her valuable editorial assistance.