IMS PUBLICATIONS
Economic Issues Facing the Global Meat Industry
Proceedings of the Fist IMS Economics Wokshop
The Workshop, which was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands from 20-22 April 2009, brought together economists, analysts and other experts fom seventeen countries. During the two day meeting, a range of papers was presented on economic topics pertaining to the industry including the impact of the recession and the key challenges presented to it by the environment and climate change. The Workshop took place against a background of significant change in the economic and trading climate for the industry, so this publication will be of particular value to member organisations that were unable to be repesented at the Workshop.
The publication is available from the IMS Secretariat
IMS Newsletter
Online at two-weekly intervals, it provides exclusive insights and analyses by leading national and international authorities on meat and livestock market trends, animal health issues, factors affecting international trade in meat and meat products, in-depth reports on the situation for the various meat species. It also keeps members up-to-date on developments in their association.
IMS-GIRA WORLD MEAT FACTS BOOK 2009
The 2009 edition of the IMS-GIRA World Meat Facts Book has been published. An annual publication, it is the fruit of cooperation between the IMS and GIRA, a leading independent economic/market research consultancy specialising in strategic research in the agri-food sector, particularly meat. It contains up-to-date statistics on production, comsumption and international trade in meat. The figures shows a five year trend, and are broken down by meat species (beef, sheepmeat, pigmeat and poultrymeat), by region of the world (European Union, Eastern Europe/FSU, North America, South America, Middle East/North Africa, Other Africa, Far East, Other Asia) and by principal countries within the regions.
The 2009 edition is now available from the IMS Secretariat.