"Variable description The quantity of domestic cereal supply (after trade) allocated to animal feed.

Variable time span 1961 – 2017

Unit conversion factor for chart 1000

Data published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020)

Link http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/?#data/

Retrieved 26th February 2020

This dataset reports the quantity of cereal crops allocated directly to human food; used as animal feed; and allocated to other uses (predominantly industrial uses such as biofuel production).

The dataset combines two sets of variables: in the Food Balance Sheets the FAO include data via their ‘old methodology’ from 1961 to 2013, and ‘new methodology’ separately from 2014 to 2017.

The variables included were ‘Cereals – Food’, ‘Cereals – Feed’ and ‘Cereals – Other Uses’, all measured in 1000 tonnes.

We have combined these two sets of data to get a complete series from 1961 to 2017 (in tonnes).

The share of cereals allocated to each use (Food, Feed and Other Uses) have also been calculated by dividing each individual variable by the sum of all three. For example: Share of cereals allocated to food = [Food / (Food + Feed + Other Uses) * 100].