Abbreviations and acronyms
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
Avian Influenza
Agricultural Market Information System
Antimicrobial resistance
African Swine Fever
Billion
Billion litres
Emerging economies of Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China
Emerging economies of Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa
Billion metric tonnes
Conversion agriculture
Central America and Caribbean
Common Agricultural Policy (European Union)
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Cost, insurance and freight
Consumer Price Index
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Cents per pound
Carcass weight equivalent
Dried Distiller’s Grains
Dry weight
Dressed carcass weight
Everything-But-Arms Initiative (European Union)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (United States)
Climatic condition associated with the temperature of major sea currents
Brazilian agricultural research institution
US Environmental Protection Agency
Economic Partnership Agreements
Economic Research Service of the US Department for Agriculture
Estimate
European Union, except the United Kingdom
Pre-2004 members of the European Union excluding the United Kingdom
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Flex-fuel Vehicles
Free on board (export price)
Foot and Mouth Disease
Free Trade Agreement
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product deflator
Greenhouse gas
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture
Genetically modified
General Services Support Estimate
Hectares
High fructose corn syrup
Hectolitre
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (Brazil)
International Cotton Advisory Committee
International Energy Agency
International Fertilizer Association
International Fund for Agricultural Development
International Food Policy Research Institute
International Grains Council
Indirect Land Use Change
International Monetary Fund
El Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (Chile Ministry of Agriculture Institute of Agricultural Development)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Sugar Organization
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (fishing)
Kilogrammes
Thousand hectares
Thousand metric tonnes
Climatic condition part of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (see Glossary)
Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Pound (weight)
Least Developed Countries
Live weight
Meat and bone meal
Middle East and North Africa
Mercado Común del Sur / Common Market of South America
Million hectares
Million
Million litres
Market Price Support
Million metric tonnes
North American Free Trade Agreement
Non-governmental organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
World Organisation for Animal Health
Ordinary Least Squares
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Per annum
Private consumption expenditure
Purchasing power parity
Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome
Producer Support Estimate
Research and development
Reunión Especializada en Agricultura Familiar (Specialised Forum on Family Farming
Renewable Fuels Standard in the United States, part of the Energy Policy Act
Raw sugar equivalent
Regional Trade Agreements
Ready to cook
Retail weight equivalent
Sustainable Development Goals
South East Asia
Small and medium enterprise
Skim milk powder
Sanitary and Phyto sanitary measures (WTO agreement)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Metric tonnes
Metric tonnes/hectare
Total Factor Productivity
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Tel quel basis (sugar)
Tariff rate quota
The United Nations
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Children's Fund
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
United States—Canada—Mexico Agreement
World Bank
World Food Programme
World Health Organization
Whole milk powder
World Trade Organization
Currencies
Argentinean peso
Australian dollars
Brazilian real
Canadian dollar
Chilean peso
Chinese yuan renminbi
Egyptian pound
Euro (Europe)
British pound sterling
Indonesian rupiah
Indian rupee
Japanese yen
Korean won
Mexican peso
Malaysian ringgit
New Zealand dollar
Pakistani rupee
Russian ruble
Saudi riyal
Thai baht
Ukrainian grivna
US dollar
South African rand