The Food Outlook report is a product of the FAO Trade and Markets Division. This report was prepared under the overall guidance of Boubaker Ben-Belhassen, Director. It is written by a team of economists, whose names and email contacts appear under their respective market summary contributions. The report benefited from research support by many staff, namely, David Bedford, Julie Claro, Harout Dekermendjian, Alice Fortuna, Marco A. Artavia Oreamuno, Grace Maria Karumathy, Lavinia Lucarelli, Emanuele Marocco, Marco Milo 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 Claire Pedrick for her valuable editorial assistance.