Agricultural commodities prices will remain stable in the next ten years according to the UN and the OECD. Also the demand will slow down increasingly to food, as is clear from the annual Outlook released on Monday for the Agriculture of the food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OECD industrialized countries Organization for the years 2016-2025. The high prices for agricultural products was expected to be over, because the increase in world population is slow, while income growth in emerging weakness is off. There, people are increasingly less inclined to give salary gains for staples.
The worldwide increase in demand should meet for food according to the report, for the most part through an increase in productivity. 80 percent of the increase in grain production could be achieved by improving crop yield. The rest is achieved by larger acreage, especially in Brazil and Argentina. Under nurtured the number of people in the world's population could thus to eight percent by 2025 or under 650 million so far almost 800 million be reduced.
A problem child stay but the region Africa South of the Sahara. There, the malnutrition remain high, and in ten years the region due to the rapidly growing population, more than a third of the world's undernourished people - compared to slightly more than a quarter going so far. "Even though we are experiencing a period of low prices for agricultural products now, we must remain vigilant, because changes in the markets can take place rapidly", said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria. Governments would have to take therefore measures to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner.
