The Food Outlook report is a product of the FAO Trade and Markets Division. This report is 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 and email contacts appear under their respective market summary contributions. The report benefited from research support by many staff, namely, David Bedford, Julie Claro, Stanislaw Czaplicki Cabezas,Erica Doro, Alice Fortuna, Lavinia Lucarelli, Emanuele Marocco, Marco Milo, Di Yang and the fisheries statistical team. Special thanks go to David Bedford, Lavinia Lucarelli and Stanislaw Czaplicki Cabezas 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.