This Summary Report was prepared by Patrick Heffer, Executive Secretary of the IFA
Agriculture Committee, and Michel Prud’homme, Executive Secretary of the IFA
Production and International Trade Committee. It presents an overview of short-term
prospects for world agriculture and fertilizer demand, as well as the global fertilizer
supply and trade situation in 2008 and 2009.
This report is available to the general public on the IFA web site, or by request to the IFA
Secretariat.
The Summary Report draws on the revised versions of two IFA reports presented at the
34th IFA Enlarged Council Meeting held in Ho Chi Minh City in November 2008: Short-
Term Prospects for World Agriculture and Fertilizer Demand 2007/08-2009/10 (A/08/156)
and Global Fertilizer Supply and Trade 2008-2009 (A/08/146b). These two
comprehensive reports are restricted to IFA members only.
The first part of the Summary Report looks at the global economic context and
agricultural situation. The second part provides fertilizer consumption estimates for
2007/08 and forecasts for 2008/09. The third part presents IFA’s perspective on fertilizer
supply and supply/demand balances for 2008 and 2009.