Drop in world meat exports could extend until 2025, OECD and FAO suggest

But not only that: the expectation is that they will only return to the record levels of 2021 around 2033, possibly a little earlier. In the annual joint study in which they evaluate trends in world meat production and trade, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) point out that only in the next decade, around 2033, is that meat exports will return to the record levels reached between 2020 and 2021. Analyzing the results of that biennium, the new OECD/FAO study notes that the historically high levels recorded at that time – just over 40 million tons of chicken, pork, beef and lamb – were due, in large part, to the exceptional demand for part of China during the African swine fever outbreak. At the time, the country absorbed a quarter of global imports. With the recovery of Chinese production and its policy of seeking self-sufficiency in both pigs and chickens, global meat trade tends ...